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Make the most of business grants
£1.7 million
available for building repairs in St Leonards
The Townscape Heritage Initiative is a building repairs grant
scheme aimed at helping communities regenerate the historic
parts of their town. Hastings Borough Council has obtained a
further £1.7 million Heritage Lottery funding for a 3-year
scheme for Central St Leonards. Grant applications will be
considered up to December 2009.
General aid levels on items of repair eligible under the scheme
can reach a maximum of 50%. Items of eligible restoration
including historically appropriate shop-fronts, a maximum of 75%
.
Provided repairs and restoration do relate to exterior parts of
the building and that the defects on the whole of a property are
being fully addressed and to an acceptable standard, grant aid
can support repair of the following:-
Structural repair, chimney repair, rainwater goods, wall
repairs, railings and ironwork
roof repairs, lead-work, exterior doors and windows, canopy and
balcony repairs and external works
For more information please contact- Conservation and Design,
Century House, 100, Menzies Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 9BB.
Tel: 01424 783275 E-mail conservation@hastings.gov.uk
“Grab – a – Grand” – The Hastings Training Fund
The Hastings Training Fund was created to help local businesses
train their staff to maximise the potential of the business, the
individual and Hastings as a whole. Under the Headline of ‘Grab
a Grand’ the project was launched in final quarter of 2006 to a
hive of interested parties and quickly outstripped all
expectations ensuring over £80,000 was paid into the town by the
end of April 2007.
As the project prepares to launch its new phase for a new
financial year there is expected to be just as much interest and
the help that is available is being especially focussed towards
addressing market imbalances that have occurred in the past.
In order to apply you will need to contact Sussex Enterprise on
0845 67 888 67 or by email info@sussexenterprise.co.uk in order
to receive an application pack and as long as all the
eligibility criteria are fulfilled funding can be provided for
anything up to £1,000 of the cost of training.
Remember! – free Town Centre Management membership for 12 months
for businesses training staff in Customer Service skills and the
Hastings and St Leonards Customer Service Award on completion of
the course
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