Business grants available for LED lighting
Over the past few years the cost of LED lighting has dropped significantly, but with tough trading times thanks to COVID-19 and now huge increases in energy prices, can your business afford to make the switch to LED?
By making the switch to LED lighting, your business could see energy savings of up to 80% - think of all that extra money you could invest in other areas of the business, just from replacing the lighting to LED.
Business grants are one of the best ways to fund the capital cost of purchasing and installing LED lighting. There has never been a better time than now to reduce your carbon footprint and your energy bills. Book your free site survey with us and find out which funding option is best for you, or give us a call and we can help guide you through the funding options available below.
There has never been a better time than now to reduce your carbon footprint and energy bills.
We provide FREE site surveys to analyse your facilities current circumstances and then provide a FREE detailed summary of the savings you could make by switching to LED.
Grants Open
AIA - ANNUAL INVESTMENT ALLOWANCE - All of UK
The AIA allows UK businesses to deduct the full value of an item that qualifies for annual investment allowance (AIA) from your profits before tax. LED lighting is a qualified item.
The AIA amount has temporarily increased to £1 million between 1 January 2019 and 31 March 2023.
LOW CARBON DORSET - Dorset
Low Carbon Dorset is a five year programme of activities to help stimulate growth in Dorset’s low carbon economy and reduce the county’s footprint.
Low Carbon Dorset have nearly allocated all our grant pot – but they would still like to hear from businesses, community groups and public sector organisations looking for help with their low carbon projects.
Grants have been available to help organisations deliver renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. Typically, these grants have covered up to 40% of project costs depending on the type of project and organisation applying.
OPEN UNTIL MARCH 2025.
GREEN BUSINESS GRANT - Bath & North East Somerset, Bristol or South Gloucestershire.
West of England Green Business Grants support SMEs to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and business operations. This helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and can save businesses money on utility bills.
Grants up to £15,000 will be made available to small & medium sized enterprises in the West of England to pay for 30-60% of eligible capital costs, depending on your business’ size, location and project.
OPEN UNTIL MARCH 2025.
EMPHASIS3 - Enterprise M3 LEP region.
EMphasis3 CO2 Reductions (EMphasis3) is an ERDF funded SME support project. It combines the expertise and experience of the University of Portsmouth - lead partner, the University of Winchester and the cleantech cluster, Greentech South.
Grants are available at up to 36% (£25,000max) of total eligible costs and are paid once the work is done and paid for.
Enterprise M3 LEP region - covers mid and north Hampshire and south west Surrey, stretching from the hinterland of London, along the lines of the M3 motorway to the New Forest taking in several towns in Hampshire and Surrey (including Aldershot, Andover, Basingstoke, Camberley, Farnborough, Guildford, Staines-upon-Thames, Whitehill & Bordon and Woking) and the city of Winchester.
NET ZERO WORCESTERSHIRE GRANT - Worcestershire
The Net Zero Worcestershire Grant provides free energy and resource efficiency reviews and grants of up to £20,000 for SME businesses within Worcestershire who wish to use their energy more efficiently; reducing costs and improving environmental credentials and impacts.
THE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP - East Sussex (excluding Brighton & Hove)
The Sustainable Business Partnership CIC is administering a grant scheme funded by East Sussex County Council designed to help businesses reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
An SME may apply for a grant between £200- £1000 to cover a maximum 40% of the total value of their energy efficiency project through the Sustainable Business Partnership CIC.
DECARBONISATION NET ZERO PROGRAMME - Coventry
The Coventry decarbonisation Programme supports businesses with fewer than 250 employees based in Coventry who want to save money on energy, waste and water bills and maximise low carbon opportunities.
Energy and resource efficiency grants - £1k-£100k.
HULL BUSINESS ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCHEME - Hull
You can receive funding of to £15,000 towards replacing existing inefficient systems and equipment within your business, and installation of new smart systems to help you save energy.
MANCHESTER ENERGY EFFICIENCY GRANT - Greater Manchester
If you have a small or medium-sized business in Greater Manchester, you may be eligible for the Energy Efficiency Grant of between £1,000 and £2,500 from GC Business Growth Hub, to help with up to 50% of the costs of your energy efficiency improvements.
RESOURCE EFFICIENCY FUND - Leeds City Region (not Barnsley)
The resource efficiency fund provides advice and grants of up to £10,000 to small and medium-sized businesses in Leeds City Region (not Barnsley) to help them lower their carbon footprint, energy use and water and waste costs.
SPORTS ENGLAND - QUEENS PLATINUM JUBILEE ACTIVITY FUN - All of UK
This Programme seeks to develop opportunities for communities to get more people physically active and we'll support new projects through providing National Lottery funding of between £300 and £15,000.
NET ZERO GRANT - West Midlands
The Net Zero Grant Programme (NZGP) will deliver information and expert advice and support to businesses enabling them to make significant changes to resource and energy efficiencies. NZGP is part of the wider West Midlands Business Support activity funded through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Grants Closed
TARGET 2030 - Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire.
Target 2030 is a business energy efficiency project that aims to support small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire to achieve a change in their energy consumption, putting them on a more sustainable footing for the future.
Grants are in the range of £500 to £60,000. The grant is subject to meeting a minimum carbon saving and covers 30% of the cost of purchase and installation.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
PECT EASTERN NEW ENERGY - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.
PECT’s role is to provide grants to eligible small and medium-sized businesses, to help catalyse capital investments in energy efficiency initiatives. The intervention rate will be up to 25% – exact value of the grant awarded will be based on the cost (£) per tonne of carbon saved.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
LOW CARBON WORKSPACES - Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes.
With a match-funded grant of between £1,000 - £5,000 you can recover up to a third of the cost of many different energy-saving measures reducing the upfront cost and the time to recover your investment.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
Low Carbon Across the South and East (LOCASE) - East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock, Croydon, East Surrey, Gatwick Diamond, Brighton & Hove, Lewes and West Sussex, West Surrey & Hampshire and the Solent areas.
Grant funding up to a maximum of £10,000 can be awarded to your organisation to improve your business performance and profitability. Maximum 40% ERDF grant contributions will remain at a limit of £10K with the minimum grant of £1K for qualifying projects.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
LOW CARBON SME'S - Birmingham, Solihull, Wyre Forest, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
This grant is for businesses to access capital grants to purchase, for example, energy saving equipment or to make process improvements that can be used to hasten the implementation of carbon saving projects.
The maximum intervention rate is 50%. For example, the total project expenditure must be a minimum of £6,000 to receive a £3,000 grant.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
BUSINESS GATEWAY GRANT SCHEME - Leicester & Leicestershire
The Business Gateway Grant Scheme has been created to support the growth and development of existing small and medium-sized businesses.
Providing grants up to £25,000.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
Low Carbon Business Evolution Programme (LCBEP) - Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire LEP
The Low Carbon Business Evolution Programme (LCBEP) will help businesses across Stoke on Trent & Staffordshire LEP reduce their carbon footprint and increase energy efficiency.
Grant funding of between £2,000 – £20,000 (up to 60% of your net costs covered) to help businesses implement recommendations.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
DE-CARBONISE PROJECT - Derbyshire
This project offers a comprehensive programme of free support for local SMEs who want to reduce their carbon emissions and improve their business.
Grants between £1,000 and £20,000 are available in Derby.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
REBIZ LEP - Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Harrogate, Kirklees, Leeds, Selby, Wakefield, York, Richmondshire, Hambleton, Ryedale, and Scarborough.
The Resource Efficient Business (REBiz) programme provides advice and financial support for small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to become more resource efficient, and adopt circular business models and practices.
40% funding towards capital investment projects to a maximum £40,000 grant.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.
SME ENERGY EFFICIENCY SCHEME - Tees Valley, Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees.
If your business has an idea for a project which would result in significant carbon savings, you could be eligible for a SMEES grant to claim back up to 45% of the upfront capital costs.
PROGRAMME NOW CLOSED.