More than £30,000 given in grants to 10 Crawley businesses

Ten businesses have been awarded a total of £32,380 funding from Crawley Borough Council’s Small Business Grant Scheme.

The funding comes from a county-wide pot and is separate from funding sent out in response to the pandemic. 

The council’s successful small business grant scheme was created to help start-ups and existing small businesses with expansion costs; since launching in February 2016, the scheme has financially supported more than 99 micro and small businesses in Crawley.

In the latest round of grant funding:

• Airborne Representation Ltd (Skybreak), an airport customer service business based at Gatwick, received £4,000 to support a project that aims to introduce a completely mobile/remote branch of the business, including the launch of a digital payments and document-signing system, online communication platform (live chat etc.) and marketing to promote these new services
• Avensys has been given £4,000 to support the transition from supplying audio visual (AV) equipment for in-person corporate events to digital equivalents
• The BeYouToFull Company has also received £4,000. A new start-up, this company applied for funding to launch and market a website where its holistic health consultancy services and products can be sold
• Crawley and Gatwick Business Watch, the membership-led crime reduction partnership, received £4,000 to support marketing efforts and to replenish its member radio network
• CVHQ Limited, a new start-up recruitment business, received £4,000 to launch a new online jobs board and recruitment consultancy 
• Multiple Dwellings Limited, a finance start-up, also received £4,000 to support the development of bespoke software to assist people submitting tax returns when purchasing property
• Game of Scones, a home-based bakery, received £2,000 to assist in the purchase of equipment such as a walk-in chiller and convection oven
• Inscape Group Limited, a start-up recruitment consultancy, also received £2,000 to assist with the business launch and equipment
• Eschon Limited received £1,982. This environmental management consultancy requested funding to purchase IT and AV equipment to enable them to offer new digital services
• Little Holly Hedgehog Pre-School in West Green received £1,500 to purchase existing assets from the former owner and cover a series of initial costs.
   

Small Business Grants are available to Crawley businesses with 50 employees or fewer and require a 50 per cent match fund from the business.

For more information about the grant scheme and how to apply visit our business funding and grants page.