The Department for Enterprise – Delivering a diverse economy where people choose to work, live and invest

A new Accessibility Grant has been added to the Financial Assistance Scheme to support businesses wishing to make adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2017.
The Equality Act 2017, which replaced the Disability Discrimination Act 2006, imposes an obligation on businesses to make adjustments to its services that allows disabled people to access services as close as reasonably possible as non-disabled people.
The support available includes:
The total grant available is capped at a maximum of £7,500 per applicant and will cover businesses in all sectors with physical premises. Find out more here.
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The Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) provides a range of grants and soft loan support for:
Grant levels vary per sector (see Financial Assistance Scheme Guidelines) with up to 40% grant support available towards:
The Department for Enterprise may provide assistance to an eligible business where, in its opinion, the eligible business undertakes, or will undertake, an economic activity in the Island; the assistance is likely to encourage sustainable economic growth in the Island; and the form and amount of the assistance is reasonable having regard to all the circumstances. Please refer to the Financial Assistance Scheme Guidelines for further information.
Please note: Only one grant may be applied for per project and only one application per 12 month period will be permitted. Grant assistance cannot be considered retrospectively for items of expenditure which have already been purchased.
Exclusions
No government debts (NI/Tax/VAT/etc)
"The Department for Enterprise helped us secure the relocation of an employee from our Cape Town Office. We were unable to fill the position locally and needed the experience and knowledge of this software developer to be based here on the Island. The Employee Relocation Incentive helped J5 International support the employee with relocation costs and enabled us to retain talent internally. We are currently in the process of accessing the scheme for another employee relocation".