Green & Sustainability Business Grants
The UK government is investing heavily in the green economy transition. Grants support businesses to reduce emissions, adopt renewable energy, develop green technologies, and implement circular economy practices.
Net Zero Support
Various programmes help businesses reduce their carbon footprint. Industrial decarbonisation grants, energy efficiency schemes, and transition funding support the journey to net zero.
Renewable Energy Grants
Funding is available for businesses developing or adopting renewable energy technologies. This includes solar, wind, hydrogen, and energy storage projects.
Circular Economy
Grants support businesses implementing circular economy principles - reducing waste, reusing materials, and developing sustainable products and services.
South African Clean Energy Grants
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Furniture Fund
The Furniture Fund, a R50-million initiative approved by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic), was entrusted to the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) to stimulate growth in South Africa's furniture sector. Recognized as a labour-intensive industry with significant potential to create jobs and reduce reliance on imports, the furniture sector plays a vital role in the country's economy.
Tourism Transformation Fund
The Fund aims to drive transformation in the tourism sector in a more direct and impactful manner that will not only assist black-owned tourism enterprises to expand and grow, but also catalyse the rise of a new generation of black owned youth, women and community owned tourism enterprises to take the tourism sector to new heights.
uMnotho Fund
This Fund is designed to improve access to BEE capital and has five products: Acquisition Finance, Project Finance, Expansion Finance, Capital Markets Fund, and Liquidity and Warehousing.
iMbewu Fund
This Fund is designed to support black entrepreneurs wishing to start new businesses as well support existing black-owned enterprises with expansion capital.
Women Empowerment Fund
The NEF Women Empowerment Fund is aimed at accelerating the provision of funding to businesses owned by black women.
NYDA Grant Programme
Provides young South African entrepreneurs with financial and non‑financial business development support to establish or grow their businesses, including mentorship, consultancy, market linkages and training.
UIF II
Aim: To contribute towards sustainable job creation and retention by supporting job creating transactions while providing concessionary funding.
KHOEBO INNOVATION PROMOTION PROGRAM
Aim: To offer capital and business support to SMME's during the early stages of commercialization.
JUNIOR MINING
Aim: To assist qualifying enterprises in the mining industry to conduct prospecting work, increase Black Junior Miners' access and licence to mine ore bodies and promote economic inclusion to support equitable economic growth.
GRO-E YOUTH SCHEME
Aim: To encourage youth entrepreneurship and employment creation, thereby expanding South African production capacity.
Khoebo Innovation Promotion Programme (KIPP)
A dtic innovation support programme for commercialising and scaling qualifying technology-led products, processes and services developed by South African businesses.
Manufacturing Support Programme (MSP)
The Manufacturing Support Programme (MSP) provides a reimbursable grant of up to 20% of project costs (maximum R10 million) for new or expansion manufacturing projects, aiming to create jobs, promote transformation and localisation in South Africa.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about South African clean energy grants