Update from Invest NI including Grants available from Executive<\/b><\/p>\n
New grants to support Northern Ireland businesses<\/b><\/p>\n Supply Chain Resilience and Development Framework<\/b><\/p>\n The Supply Chain Resilience and Development Framework (SCRDF) is now open for applications from manufacturers and internationally tradeable service\u00a0businesses who manage a supply chain as part of their business, or who are involved in the extended supply chain.\u00a0 SCRDF will primarily provide specialist advisory support to help businesses identify supply chain risks and appropriate mitigations, identify supply chain opportunities and develop supply chain capability. To find out more click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Covid-19: <\/b>Skills Focus Programme<\/b> EU Exit Advice Clinics Potential Invest NI Support<\/b> Contact details for Invest NI Ballymena Office are set out below:<\/p>\n Update from Invest NI including Grants available from Executive New grants to support Northern Ireland businesses The Finance Minister, has announced \u00a3177.9 million in new business support grants.\u00a0 Further details on the schemes can be found here. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has launched\u00a0a \u00a31 million capital grant scheme\u00a0to help existing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,21],"class_list":["post-8355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-latest-news","tag-local-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8357,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8355\/revisions\/8357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nSkills Focus is a skills development programme funded by the Department for the Economy and delivered across Northern Ireland by the six further education colleges. It aims to help local businesses, with fewer than 250 employees, upskill their staff. To find out more click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/b>As a reminder, the next EU Exit Advice Clinics on 25 March<\/a> and 31 March<\/a> are now available for bookings. These events include the latest programme of webinar videos and allow businesses to book up to 3 x 20 minute appointments with advisors. Please also refer to the Invest NI website, NI Business Info<\/a>, which provides all the latest guidance on changes to regulations and support as they emerge.<\/p>\n
\nIf you are engaged with any businesses who may benefit from Invest NI support – please get in touch. The basic eligibility criteria to become an Invest NI Client is that the business must have at least annual sales of \u00a3250,000 with 25% from outside of Northern Ireland or have the potential to achieve these sales within three years. We are particularly interested in businesses with growth projects which will deliver higher levels of sales outside of NI and\/or additional jobs.<\/p>\n\n