Grant Funding

Rural Development Programme Projects

The company is expanding its services to organisations involved in the supply chain. We provide business and grant aid services to producer organisations and processing companies and have developed a strong record with the grant awarding bodies and UK Clearing Banks.

Follow the links below to view a list of just some of the projects we have secured funding towards. If you have a similar idea or would like to talk through your options contact your nearest Laurence Gould office to speak with a consultant.

Axis 1 Projects - Improving Competitivness & Adding Value

Fruit & Veg Sector

New storage, grading and distribution centre fruit and vegetables
New onion topping, grading and storage facility
New storage, grading, processing and distribution centre vegetables
New vegetable washing, grading, processing and packing operation
Top fruit juice processing and bottling operation
Conventional and organic carrot grading line and expansion of packhouse
New soft fruit packhouse
Soft fruit pack house extension
New potato grading line equipment and cold store
New vegetable storage, grading, distribution and processing factory for conventional and organic leeks
Apple and Pear Juice processing and marketing
Four top fruit packhouse expansion business plans
New top fruit packhouse for local sourcing of fruit and delivery to ASDA supermarket
Potato and Onion grading equipment
Top fruit grading line with camera grader and bagging capabilities.

Forestry

Number of timber harvesters and forwarders
A bespoke log skidder
Wood chip store, with moving floor, to fuel hot water boiler

Other Projects

Grain drying facility for farmer cooperative invloved with exporting grain from Southampton
Organic cereal seed processing and storage facility

Axis 2 Projects - Environmental Schemes

laurence Gould has a great deal of experience with establishing Entry level Stewardship (ELS), Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) and Organic Stewardship Schemes across a mix of land based businesses.

Axis 3 Projects - Rural Diversification

Conversion of historic timber framed barn into a self contained wedding venue
Mobile catering business and fitting out of a catering kitched in redundant barn
Five self catering chalets on an established golf course
A number of reservoir projects within the salad and root cropping sectors
Redevelopment of a historic barn
Fruit juice bottling operations in East Anglia and South East
National Marketing and promotional campaign for industry body
Soft fruit growers Packhouse and reservoir combined PMGS and RES project
Development of parkland to events area/holiday lodges for tourism
Development of farm buildings, house and gardens to wedding and events business
South East and Eastern Region Reservoir applications to support production and local environment and tourism development
Water bottling operation
Development of alternative business in farm buildings
New glasshouse operation for herb production
Field herb production and processing
Farm shops
Camping and caravanning park
Organic free range chicken production
IT pig breeding project
New venison supply chain initiative
Development of marketing for Turkey organisation
New pig meat supply chain development
River Nene Organic Vegetables franchise box scheme development

Other Projects

Grant funding towards two anaerobic digestors, 1 Mega Watts and 2 Mega Watts respectivly. Funding was secured towards capital costs of non-electical generation elements such as; silage clamps and digestate storage tanks.