Very good news Subject to contract, SEIF has agreed to award us a Business Development Grant! Apparently we are the first award of this year's round. One of the first steps is to establish the size and shape of the market for the Deep Green offer, and how much health and social care commissioners would be willing to pay.
The search for a friendly local authority will now be pursued in earnest. We have a real proposition, with likelihood of securing funding, which will create 100 jobs, plus the short-term jobs created in the construction - a sector which is crying out for work at the moment. This factor will make the costs of building cheaper now than they would have been 2 years ago. As we will be using environmentally conscious building methods, this will give the workforce experience which can only enhance their future employment prospects. "Green" building is increasinly making sense as the longer term energy costs continue to rise. So we make an attractive proposition for a local authority wanting to stimulate some business growth, and we "tick lots of boxes" - social enterprise, woman entrepreneur, person with disabilities, ethical, environmental, providing social benefit...how could they possibly say no?
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