The District Council has obtained ?50,000 from something called the “Business Southend” growth hub – and given it out to local businesses. The Council website explains it here:
The following businesses have been awarded grants:
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Eva (UK) Ltd, a family run business, are using the grant of ?10,000 to expand their business by repairing and refurbishing the showroom, allowing for triple the amount of products to be displayed.?? By doing this 29 full and part time jobs have been safeguarded and up to six new jobs will be created.
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JKS Group Limited (JKS) is a haulage company that also specialises in earthworks, aggregate and recycling.? They are looking to expand their workshop facility using their grant of ?10,000 so that they can maintain their existing fleet of lorries to a far higher standard, and will increase their fleet by another 10 vehicles creating 12 new jobs.
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PEMXQ Ltd is a limited company that provides energy, sustainability and utilities consultancy and will refurbish and expand into the office area next door using their grant of ?2,329.? The additional space and work area will allow for planned expansion creating 4 additional jobs and safeguard 10 jobs.
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The Day Nursery is an Ofsted registered nursery and pre-school for children aged from 12 weeks to 5 years old.?? Their ?4277 grant will enable them to have a better equipped ?fit for purpose? site.? It will also safeguard 20 existing jobs, whilst creating four new posts.
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The Marlborough Head pub is a family-run business that was established in 1995, but the current owner/licensee has been in position since 2014.? A grant of ?5,208 will enable a complete upgrade to all working areas and new kitchen equipment to enable them to provide a wider range of food and to comply with health and safety regulations safeguarding four posts, and creating two posts.
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Practical HR, a HR Consultancy service based in Great Wakering, received ?6,690 enabling an office refit and the creation of two new posts
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The Megacentre is a not-for-profit social enterprise based in Rayleigh and received ?10,000 for new air conditioning units enabling 20 jobs to be safeguarded and one job to be created.
Local businesses can find out more about the council’s Business Support team here.
As it happens JKS were the contractor behind the gold course application in Rawreth with all the proposed earth-moving.
Point I was going to make Chris .It is symtomatic of our so called mature economy that there is no one physically producing any actual products ,just services consultancies and retail. Seems that only farming and food production could pull this country out off the impending economic crisis that will come unless we produce more goods here in the UK.But hey let’s build over the food producing greenbelt .Let them eat Cake !!
Mrs Thatcher’s fiscal guru ( from the USA ) came up with the “abandon the manufacturing base – the service industry is the future ” approach and her
biggest disciple ( Tony Blair ) continued it in leaving the back door open to
encourage cheap labour over. And what currency are they now measuring
the revival in “the manufacturing base statistics” – gross negligence in my view.