Clean Diversification Grant Policy

2.1 Central Government has provided the Council with REPF capital grant funding of £843,000. Of this funding, £300,000 is allocated for improvements to active travel infrastructure while the remaining £543,000 is available across these grant schemes. These figures may be moved between schemes, to maximise the benefit of the programme, but the total budget will not change. Funding is designed to meet several interventions which were agreed with Government through our REPF investment proposal. These interventions are: 

• Funding (capital grants) for small scale investment in micro and small enterprises in rural areas
• E11 Capacity building & infrastructure support local groups
• E17 Development & promotion of visitor economy
• E26 Growing the local social economy

2.2 The Council investment proposal agreed to meet these interventions through the delivery of four grant programmes:

• Decarbonisation grants
• Community resilience grants
• Agri-Tech grants
• Clean diversification grants