Have you got ideas to grow your business or develop a new product, but not quite enough money, expertise or resources to make it happen?

The University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform is working with East Sussex County Council on LoCASE Business Grant programme, which offers local businesses money to help them grow.

Businesses can get a 40 percent contribution towards a project to grow their business, up to a maximum of £10,000.

The money is available to any small to medium sized businesses that helps its customers do their bit for the environment. That can include:

• Plumbers
• Electricians
• Environmental consultants
• Renewable energy specialists
• Landscaping and tree surgeons
• Recycling and waste management firms.
• Building technologies
• Architects designed low carbon buildings
• Building firms installing energy saving technologies such as insulation or double glazing.

Businesses can put together a shopping list of items to spend the grant on, including:

• Marketing
• Website
• IT, software & phone systems
• Tools & equipment
• Plant, machinery & facilities hire
• Consultancy
• Product development
• Energy efficiency upgrades

The money is limited and already £250,000 has been awarded to local businesses. Don’t miss out contact:

greengrowthplatform@brighton.ac.uk

Tel: 01273 641949

Website: www.greengorthplatform.co.uk and go to the LoCASE pages.

Read more about business funding opportunities.

Read more about Cooden Consulting.

The post Money available for East Sussex business appeared first on Cooden Tax Consulting.

The fundamentals of FinTech

FinTech is a phrase referring to computer programmes and other technology supporting, streamlining and improving functionality and ease of use for businesses and their customers in the financial and banking sector.

The development of mobile phone payments and the platforms that support and process transactions via mobile phone and those addressing the online security of such activity would fall under the Fintech umbrella, as would the now everyday availability of chip and pin or, to come more up to date, contactless card payments.

Going further than this, legacy banks are now looking into ways of bringing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, still potentially the domain of the Cyber Criminal and their Ransomware attacks, into mainstream banking.

Blockchain is another phrase that you will be hearing when it comes to banking and insurance, blockchain is distributed database to track digital assets such as Bitcoin, but has the potential to go much further.

How we help Fintech companies

We’re already working with a number of businesses in the FinTech space, so we know the challenges you’re probably facing in developing your solutions.

Trying to overcome those challenges is the basis of a claim for Research and Development Tax Relief, failing to overcome them, will actually be very useful when it comes to a claim, and may help recoup some of the losses invested in your project.

Why not have a chat with one of our experts to see whether your FinTech project is sitting on a little pot of gold?

Call 01424 225345 and ask for Simon, or just visit the Contact Us page on our website and Simon will give you a call back.

The post The new language of the technological age appeared first on Cooden Tax Consulting.