Government Grants for Small Businesses
January 10, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Business Advice
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Let’s talk about something I love - Government Grants for Small Businesses. I also love other people’s money when doing a venture to help spread the risk. What’s better then starting a business and having the government help pay to get it going?
I first learnt about gov grants for small businesses when I was in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I was at a tradeshow and one of the gents who worked in catering started chatting with me as the show was dead and my booth was near the door they came through. His best advice was when applying for one speak in government terms which is very general.
Governments have grants for MANY things they just don’t publicize it too much. You’ll also have a hard time finding lot’s of information online. You will find some but most of them are basically people who have done the homework and now want to sell you the information.
If you are serious about an idea you may want to just send the paypal payment and wait; if you get accepted for a grant it would be totally worth it and if not at least you tried?
Personally whenever I do anything like that the MINUTE I hit send payment I start looking online for free. (Why I don’t do it the other way around I’ll never know). Either way my personal advice would be to contact your local government and go from there.
Contact a local MP if you must but there IS $$$ to be given out. Grants are similar in my opinion to corporate welfare. That being said if you want a grant try and make sure your idea not only is beneficial to the country you’re living but also it helps if it creates jobs locally.
I was going to contact the Canadian Government about a Hemp procurement businesses. Basically hemp has 25,000 uses and could take on petroleum as well for bio fuel but I’m not going to bore you with that.
When contacting a local MP or government agency; be sure that you already have an idea written down as they will probably ask you a lot of questions and then ask you to submit something written.
The fact of the matter is that if you want to start something that is beyond your scope but beneficial to the territory that you live in chances are if you’re from a respectable democratic country it’s worth a shot.
I did some searching online and came up with this site here. I linked to a page of recipients; as you can see the size of the grant and application vary.
I also called them up. It’s 486$ for what I believe to be a 7 year update as well as access to a business plan maker etc…
Frankly I’m pretty sure the Canadian Gov won’t be giving me $$$ to help build my online dynasty for the sole purpose of me relocation to a tropical climate. If you have plans to do something locally and features some of the aspects mentioned above $486 could be a drop in the bucket if you receive a large grant; if not it’s a write-off for your business. ( I know I know write-off’s still take $$ out of your pocket!)
Regardless of the size or scope of your business idea it is totally possible so never let lack of money come into the picture; money will flow endlessly to to a good idea; always has and always will and most of the sources will only become apparent when you are ready for them.
Best of luck and if anyone here does get a grant; please let me know how it went!
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