Business Catalyst (Small) Grants – United Kingdom

Whether you sell direct to consumers or work within the trade, their grants can help you to get your plans off the ground, providing you with essential equipment, marketing tools or specialist knowledge.

Funding Information

• Grant amount: £1,000 (including VAT)
• Number of grants available: 10 per year.

What can the grant be used for?

• A Business Catalyst (Small) Grant will help you to grow your business and move your plans forward to the next stage. Funds must be used within 12 months of being received. You can use your grant to:
  • Purchase new equipment, such as new IT equipment or machinery and tools to produce a new product.
  • Develop new products or services, by, for example, realising a digital marketing strategy, such as new brand identity, website development or object photography.
  • Adopt new processes and new ways of working, such as adaptations to your workshop or access to mentoring to realise a new production process or operation.

Eligibility Criteria

• You can apply for a grant if you have completed a formal mentoring programme, business consultancy or business diagnostic programme, such as (but not exclusive to) the Goldsmiths’ Centre’s Business Diagnostic and Advice for Jewellers and Silversmiths session within the last 12 months.
• Please apply if you:
  • are on the pathway to being self-employed/sole trader or run a micro-business in the jewellery, silversmithing and allied industries.
  • are located and have/will have a trading address in the UK. You must have a UK bank account in the exact name that you are applying in.
  • typically, they would expect the business to have a turnover up to £75,000.
  • dedicated funding will be set aside for applicants experiencing financial difficulty (evidenced through eligibility for government benefits)

For more information, visit Goldsmiths’ Centre.