What is Grants4Growth?

It provides businesses who operate within the South and East Lincolnshire Councils Partnership area (Boston, East Lindsey and South Holland), with the opportunity to secure grants to help purchase both the capital assets and the business services they need to grow.

We don't discriminate by size  or sector and will accept applications from any business that is looking to grow and that has been trading in South and East Lincolnshire for at least 12 months.

There are 2 types of grants available:

1.            Capital Grants - Min £1,000 - Max £25,000 00 up to 50% of eligible costs 

2.            Revenue Grants - Min £1,000 - Max £25,000  up to 50% of eligible costs 

Applications can contain both Capital and Revenue components but the maximum award to any one business will be £25,000.

In order to help as many businesses as possible, businesses can only be awarded one grant over the course of the year, so all eligible expenditure should be included in a single application. There will be no second opportunity.

There is a maximum limit of three items of expenditure per application.  We are looking for meaningful investments and not long shopping lists of kit, peripheral or expenditure relating to operational costs.

The previous Grants4Growth programme, which ran from 2023 to 2025, invested around £1.5m with over 160 businesses, funding both capital assets and revenue expenditure.

Examples of capital grants included forklift truck, printing and embroidery equipment, laser cutting and CNC machinery, compressors and shot blasting units, new machine tooling, spray paint equipment, digital camera and filming equipment and much more!

Examples of revenue grants included product testing and NPD, consultancy projects, website development, marketing campaigns, purchase of technical expertise, management development and staff training.

Support and advice in applying for our grants is completely free and the process is very straight forward. We aim to get a decision to you within 2 weeks of your application being submitted, although this could be up to 4 weeks at busy times.