Tips on how to Apply for a Worth Added Grant

Added worth (A V) is a aggressive program and you’ll not robotically obtain a grant.

You should obtain a financing settlement providing you a A V grant earlier than you:

• begin work
• conform to all prices (together with the cost of installments)
• enter into any authorized contract
• order

Any prices you incur earlier than this date are at your personal danger and will render your total mission ineligible if deemed to have commenced.

The appliance course of is a 2-step course of.

Step 1: Verify that you’re eligible

The net checker closed at 11:59 p.m. on July 21, 2022.

Step 2: Submit a full software

RPA will invite you to finish a full software and ship you an software kind in case your Stage 1 on-line software scores excessive sufficient.

You’ll need to finish an entire software kind and ship it alongside together with your supporting paperwork to RPA. You should ship your accomplished software kind to RPA: [email protected].

RPA assess worth for cash alongside funding priorities. This may occasionally have an effect on the general rating of your mission.

You may be competing for funding, so the success of your full software may even rely upon the quantity and worth of different functions acquired. You’ll not robotically get a grant.

What you have to on your full software

You’ll need to supply extra particulars about your mission in your full software. Use it:

• similar mission you utilized in your step 1: on-line software
• mission quantity offered by RPA in your invitation to use for a full software e mail

We’re conscious that some minor mission particulars could change because the on-line software was accomplished, for instance, adjustments to mission prices as they’re finalized. Nonetheless, the primary particulars of your mission shouldn’t be considerably completely different out of your on-line software.

It’s best to contact RPA by e mail [email protected] earlier than submitting your full software if it’s essential focus on vital adjustments to your on-line software.

What info do you have to present

The entire software is in 2 components: a Phrase kind and a spreadsheet.

You’ll need to supply:

• details about you, your organization and your mission
• a breakdown of mission prices
• provider particulars
• mission milestones
• throughput volumes and retailers proposed for the mission
• monetary affect forecast
• an evidence of how the mission will probably be funded
• particulars on how the mission will add worth to agricultural merchandise
• particulars of earlier comparable grants awarded to what you are promoting
• proof of market alternative on your mission, together with demand for merchandise and affect in your mission’s opponents

Planning permission necessities

You should submit a replica of the constructing allow approval on your mission together with your full software.

Different supporting paperwork

You’ll need to supply the next supporting paperwork, if related to your mission:

• a replica of a signed and dated rental settlement with the proprietor(s) of the land or buildings on the mission location – if the applicant firm doesn’t personal it
• monetary accounts for the final 3 years of buying and selling
• newest tax returns, administration accounts, or earnings and expense assertion from an accountant (if you’re a brand new enterprise or self-employed)
• monetary and manufacturing projections
• related authorizations and consents – along with the constructing allow
• 3 quotes, references to catalog listings or formal affords for every merchandise value £5,000 or extra
• 1 quote for any merchandise value as much as £4,999.99
• proof of mission funding
• affirmation from the provider of any used merchandise that it’s anticipated to final no less than 5 years, is match for objective and has not acquired any earlier subsidy
• particulars and draft settlement between the events when a three way partnership is proposed
• proof that you’re eligible and intend to incorporate sunk VAT in your mission prices (resembling a letter from a Chartered Accountant or HMRC)
• proof of market demand, together with letters of assist from third events, or routing orders from potential prospects

Quantity of agricultural merchandise processed

RPA monitor the quantity of eligible agricultural merchandise which can be processed because of the A V to agree. You may be requested to inform us about your present (baseline) and future (post-project) processing volumes.

How your software is assessed

RPA make sure that the mission continues to be eligible for a grant on the full software stage. RPA will assess your software in opposition to the next standards.

Funding priorities

RPA will charge the extent to which the mission meets the funding priorities. These are tasks that:

• enhance or enhance therapy
• develop what you are promoting
• processing merchandise for the primary time
• shorten provide chains
• encourage collaboration and partnerships
• enhance the setting

The extra you meet the grant funding priorities, the stronger your software will probably be.

Worth for cash

RPA assess the extent to which mission prices characterize worth for cash. This consists of the grant quantity wanted to supply the next merchandise:

• enterprise advantages
• undertake new manufacturing strategies or processes
• create new value-added merchandise
• further turnover

want and demand

Your software ought to present an evaluation of the next:

• enterprise want for the mission
• market demand and potential prospects

You should present proof to point out your market analysis and again up your conclusions.

Competitors

You’ll need to supply an evaluation of your mission’s potential competitors and proof of your analysis, figuring out native, regional, nationwide or on-line opponents. This may assist you again up your conclusions on request and determine any danger of displacement.

Environmental advantages

Inform us concerning the environmental advantages of the mission, resembling:

• use energy-efficient equipment or gear
• utilizing renewable vitality sources
• scale back meals waste
• water use effectivity
• non-food waste administration
• use sustainable packaging, for instance by lowering or eliminating single-use plastics
• scale back dangerous emissions or pollution
• contribute to “web zero” carbon targets

You may be required to supply annual monitoring of all environmental advantages you declare in your full software, measuring progress in opposition to your mission’s beginning baseline.

Monetary viability

Your mission will probably be evaluated to make sure that it’s viable. RPA will assess:

• the present monetary viability of what you are promoting
• how the mission could affect your present enterprise operations
• how you’ll fund the mission till the grant is claimed
• how the corporate will profit financially from the mission

Supply and sturdiness

RPA assess how you’re:

• meet the mission deadline
• mitigate mission supply dangers

When you’ll know when you have succeeded

RPA goals to provide you a choice in your software inside 60 working days of receiving an entire and full software.

If you’re supplied a scholarship, RPA will ship a Grant Financing Settlement (GFA) to signal and return. This may outline the authorized phrases and situations of the grant, together with:

• grant quantity
• the outputs we’ve got agreed on your mission

If it’s essential change something within the GFA all through the mission, you need to acquire the written settlement of RPA first. If you happen to do not, RPA could finish your settlement and get better any grant we’ve got already paid. You’ll get extra info and assist if you’re supplied a grant.

In case your software will not be accepted

In case your software will not be accepted, RPA I’ll write to you to let you know why. If you’re not happy with the choice, you may lodge a grievance or enchantment at RPA in writing, by e mail or by phone.

Contact the Agricultural Transformation Fund (FTF) group to RPA if you’re unsure if you’re eligible to use or if you’re unable to entry the net checker.

E-mail: FTF@rpa.gov.uk

Phone: 0300 0200 301 and comply with the Farming Transformation Fund program choices.