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'Sheffield
provides the highest level of funding available
anywhere across Europe'
Sheffield provides the highest level of funding available anywhere across
Europe for potential inward investors. An imaginative package of central
and local government funding plus European support has compiled to attract
and grow dynamic companies and successful economic clusters. Sheffield
is proud of its past but is forward into the future on a tide of innovation
and investment - Sheffield is making it again.
Grants and Incentives
If you are thinking of setting up an office or plant in the UK, there
is a good chance you will be eligible for some kind of financial assistance.
Altogether, there are about 250 different kinds of financial assistance
on offer in the UK. Fortunately, you do not need to understand them
all.
The key points to Know are these:
Broadly speaking, you have two main sources of help: the UK government
and the European Union.
The former is the more
important
There are three types
of assisted areas in the UK, which are called Tier
1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 Enterprise
Grant.
If you are looking for
the UK's most generous grants,
you should locate in one of the UK's assisted
areas. Sheffield is one of the few Tier 1
assisted areas in the UK.
Sheffield First for Investment is able to provide further information
about the types of grants and incentives available, and can help investors
from outside the region to access these funds.
'250
different kinds of financial assistance on offer'