LoCASE Services

 

Totalling over £18.5 million and funded by the European Regional Development Fund 2014 – 2020, the LoCASE project will be able to provide support to your business in a number of ways:

• The provision of two types of grant funding (up to a maximum of £10k) that can be awarded to your organisation to improve business performance in terms of profitability, resilience and competitiveness, at the same time as contributing to the protection and preservation of the environment. This grant funding will form 40% of the cost of your eligible project, with the remaining 60% matched by your business;
  1. Any business can qualify to use this money (up to £5k) toward having energy efficiency measures installed for their business, with both the cost of materials and installation being covered.
  2. If your business offers low carbon goods or services, a business development grant (up to £10k) is available to you. You can claim against eligible costs such as marketing, consultancy, equipment, IT software, licences, training and certification.

 

• The Steps To Environmental Management (STEM) scheme can help your business to build an environmental management system aligned with the requirements of ISO 14001, or redesign an existing system using provided tools and templates. Workshops will be laid on free of charge, which focus on each of the three stages of the scheme so you are able to progress at your own speed. This longstanding scheme is being updated to ensure it stays relevant with the new formulation of ISO 14001 and also incorporates business resilience information.

 

• Business support for growth focussed low carbon / environmental sector companies in East Sussex via the University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform.

 

• Innovation and R&D support to help low carbon / environmental sector companies develop new products and services via the University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform and other regional universities.

 

• A number of events and conferences will be supported by the project to help share information about the low carbon market including technologies and procurement whilst also providing you the chance to network with other businesses.