Business Development

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Business Development

Cefndy Economic Dynamo Project Phase VI
Total Cost: £1,817,000 - EU Grant: £726,800
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The project provides new industrial units on a site designated for employment development in proximity to Denbighshire’s most deprived communities. It will involve the construction of 1,600 msq of industrial floor space and the creation of 4 new units.
The most significant aim of the project is to stimulate indigenous SME growth. This will be achieved by providing much needed industrial units to enable companies who have outgrown their existing premises to relocate and expand.

Denbighshire Strategic Industrial Sites Development Project, Phase I and II
-Phase I
Total Cost: £1,747,600 - EU Grant: £699,040
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
Wood Road, Rhyl – 3,200 sq ft (4 x 800sq ft units)
Kings Avenue, Prestatyn – 6,000 sq ft (2x1500sq ft x 1 x 3,000 sq ft units)
Lon Parcwr, Ruthin – 8,000 sq ft 2 x 1500 sq ft & 1 x 3,000 sq ft units

-Phase II
Total Cost: £1,962,500 - EU Grant: £785,000
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
Gas Works Lane, Prestatyn – 5,000 sq ft (2 x2500 sq ft units)
London Road, Corwen – 7,500 sq ft (1 x 1500 sq ft and 3 x 2000 sq ft units)

OpTIC Capital Build and OpTIC Fit Out and Revenue
Capital
Total Cost: £5,212,989- EU Grant: £2,627,720
Fit Out
Total Cost: £9,838,069 - EU Grant £7,089,495
Sponsor Welsh Development Agency
The centre will provide a world-class facility to the dedicated needs of the Opto-electronics industry. Based at St Asaph Business Park it will include 24 incubator units for Opto-electronic SME, a technology centre and a business support centre.
The technology centre will operate as a world-class facility, performing leading edge product development and research. The incubator units will provide accommodation for emerging new optronic start-ups, and will offer flexible design to meet the needs of growing firms. OpTIC will continuously generate new, high technology businesses and quality jobs, playing a major role in the regeneration of the County. The facility will also enable innovative new products and processes to be developed that will help ignite industry research, and will be developed with the help of the University of Wales, Bangor.

A Jewel in Ruthin's Crown
Total Cost :£475,000 - EU Grant: £190,000
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This project will develop a new business centre for new start-up and micro businesses, and as a community facility in the centre of the town. The scheme will involve the conversion of "Crown House", a semi derelict building, and totalling 550 m sq. The facility will provide a business advice centre, micro units for new businesses, ICT facility and training facility serving the town and its rural hinterlands. The development aims at harnessing, enhancing and nurturing the wealth of community skills, knowledge and ideas and directly engaging the community in the local economy.

Denbigh Showcase Regeneration Project
Total Cost: £550,000 - EU Grant: £216,000
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This project brings into use a town centre building to provide a showcase facility to assist in the socio-economic regeneration of the town of Denbigh and its rural hinterlands. The facility is multi faceted and includes the expansion of a farmers market, workshops/showcase for local produced wares. It also provides a town centre location for the rural business support officer whose remit is to promote economic development. It enables interaction between firms, helping rural enterprise tackle information gaps and facilitating access to economic regeneration mainstream services such as Business Connect.

Denbighshire Financial Support Programme for SME's Phase I and II
Phase I
Total Cost: £1,317,892 - EU Grant: £ 268,948
Phase II
Total Cost: £1,411,246 - EU Grant: £428,659
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This scheme provides financial assistance to address the development needs of SMEs across all relevant sectors of the local economy. It provides financial support through a range of individual grant packages designed to encourage new businesses ventures, assist existing business expansion and development, create employment, encourage innovation and enhance local business efficiency and competitiveness. The programme complements and adds value to the specialist advice available through the existing Business Connect network and complements the Denbighshire Business Support project.
The second phase will continue to provide grant aid through a flexible package of financial support designed to meet the need of SME’s.

Denbighshire Countryside Grant Scheme
Total Cost: £238,870 - EU Grant: £59,435
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This is a grant scheme project designed to aid farmers and landowners to undertake landscape and wildlife conservation improvements and thereby assist in attracting additional tourists to the country. The scheme assists small projects that may have fallen through the nets of other schemes. It will benefit farms and the wider rural communities by conserving and enhancing the countryside and by providing opportunities for farmers to acquire new skills. Denbighshire County Council manages the scheme, and the countryside management staff give specialist advice.

DAPPER – Denbigh and Prestatyn Project Encouraging Regeneration
Total Cost: £288,00 - EU Grant: £144,00
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This project enabled mature business partnerships in Denbigh and Prestatyn and surrounding areas to identify new market opportunities. It aided future sustainable development and implement strategies accordingly. This helped to arrest the economic decline of the two business communities, which have suffered from peripherality and under promotion of what they have to offer.

DUNE – Denbighshire’s Unique Natural Environment enhancement project
Total Cost: £360,599 - EU Grant: £169,121
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
A project that provides a fast track route into accessing Objective 1 resources for targeted groups including community groups, tourism providers, local environmental associations, specialist groups and the private sector. Its main is to promote sustainable management and enhance the natural environment in the coastal and river habitats of Denbighshire. Grants are available to support activities such as improving access to the coast and river environments.

Denbighshire Tourism Promotion and Development Project Phase I and II
Phase I
Total Cost: £1,204,173 - EU Grant: £498,770
Phase II
Total Cost: £1,554,048 - EU Grant: £672,260
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
Denbighshire is marketed under two main brands – North Wales Borderlands and Rhyl and Prestatyn. This project will develop and enhance these brands through a new coordinated promotion and development campaign. Its main objectives are marketing enhancement, research into new and niche markets, promotion and development, and improved distribution overseas with the aim of increasing visitor numbers. The project will be implemented and led by Denbighshire County Council’s tourism unit in collaboration with the national and regional tourism bodies and the private sector.
Phase 2 will build upon the lessons learnt and the strengths identified by the experiences of Phase 1, and endeavour to take advantage of emerging new markets and new routes to marketing. The Phase 2 bid covers the whole of Denbighshire and tackles both marketing areas of coastal and rural Denbighshire.

ENCHANT - Enhancing Nant Clwyd House To Advance Niche Tourism
Total Cost: £707,000 - EU Grant: £213,600
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The aim of this project is to create a new visitor attraction in Ruthin. It involves the conversion of Nant Clwyd House, which is a Grade 1 town house dating from medieval, Tudor and Stuart periods lying within the important conversation area of Ruthin. The attraction will be an interpretation scheme, utilising Ruthin's rich cultural, historical and architectural heritage as a means of increasing visitor numbers and spend and contributing towards economic growth within the town and its hinterlands.

Creation of Open Waterspace for Leisure and Recreation: Llangollen
Total Cost: £1,628,622 - EU Grant: £633,622
Sponsor British Waterways
The overall aim of the project is to promote sustainable tourism through the integration of the management of the Llangollen canal and its environs to the benefit of the economic and social well being of the area. The project provides a purpose built 32 berth, 48 hour mooring facility to meet existing and future demand at Llangollen. The facility will enable boats arriving at Llangollen to moor overnight in the town; allowing people to visit Llangollen and its other attractions while also enhancing the natural environment of the area, by re-lining the existing channel and bed, planting native trees and providing suitable nesting and feeding habitats for a range of wildlife.
This will underline the town of Llangollen as one of the most popular cruising waterways in the British Waterways network.

Rhuddlan Visitor Enhancement Programme
Total Cost: £692,951 - EU Grant: £245,000
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The project funded improvements to the physical environment in the medieval village of Rhuddlan, to encourage tourism and also the development of local business growth. These actions created a competitive opportunity for a village badly affected by out of town developments. The project has improved the physical environment in Rhuddlan, promoted tourism and served as a catalyst for further private investment.

CyberSkills for SMEs Phase I and II
Phase I
Total Cost: £469,338 - EU Grant: £193,200
Phase II
Total Cost: £341,704 - EU Grant: £150,349
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
Cyberskills provides business-focussed ICT advice, follow-on support and training for SMEs. It will assist in increasing the awareness of the potential offered by ICT to increase business profitability and increase the number of people receiving high quality related ICT skills training. The project makes use of a state of the art centre in Denbigh and will provide outreach services at other locations. Cyberskills also uses new multimedia flexible learning technologies to provide ICT help for people at times and places that are convenient for them. By keeping pace with the changing ICT world Cyberskills can assist local businesses in gaining a competitive edge.

The Welsh Advantage
Total Cost: £37,387 - EU Grant: £15,701
Sponsor Menter Iaith Dinbych
This project promotes cultural and linguistic identity as a valuable source of economic activity in Denbighshire. It employs an officer for Denbighshire who is the point of contact for all Welsh language issues within local businesses. The officer delivers information on grant schemes available for bilingual materials and signage, assist with grant applications, helps businesses with short translations and offers a scheme where translations can be provided by local translation companies. The officer also organises Welsh in the workplace classes through co-operating with local Welsh for Adult centres that will raise awareness of the benefit of using the Welsh language as a marketing tool for businesses as a one-stop shop to serve the area.

Plas Newydd – Maids
Total Cost: £170,245 - EU Grant: £85,122
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This project will include the restoration and the improvement of facilities of a Grade II listed building- Plas Newydd in Llangollen. The project will enhance visitor attraction by restoring parts of the grounds and buildings, creating an indoor venue for events and providing greater car parking space. This will enable the opportunity for the venue to increase economic activity on the site and increase the visitor numbers.

Ruthin and Llangollen, Yes (RALLY)
Total Cost: £288,00 - EU Grant: £84,000
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The project aims to arrest the economic decline in Ruthin and Llangollen, two communities that have in the past suffered from peripherality and under promotion of what they have to offer. It will highlight the advantages of supporting local businesses and encouraging local sourcing of products through markets, events and campaigns. The appointment of a business champion will be made in each community whose role will be to assist partnerships to undertake market research, implement promotional activities, provide equipment to produce quality supporting literature and work to remove obstacles to economic growth.

Training

Denbigh Learning Centre
Total Cost: £1,666,484 - EU Grant: £792,511
Sponsor Llandrillo College
This purpose built learning centre aims to provide a package of learning opportunities to employers, those in work and the unemployed including computer courses, language and craft classes and specific programmes for businesses in the area. It aims to provide people with real choices in the way they learn. An important part of the centre will be the information technology area which will provide the community with informal access to computers including Internet, e-mail etc.

Training Facilities for the development of Land-Based Industry
Total Cost: £555,140 - EU Grant: £266,466
Sponsor Coleg Llysfasi
The scheme will develop new centre of excellence facilities for the effective delivery of training that will assist individuals and businesses in land-based industries to face the challenges of economic decline. Training and support is provided in new techniques to improve efficiency and innovation to assist economic regeneration in rural areas including ICT supported learning and ICT based flexible learning opportunities.

Digital Village Hall for Women
Phase I
Total Cost: £321,789 - EU Grant: £500,762
Phase II
Total Cost: £253,110 - EU Grant: £154,373
Sponsor Interactive Rhyl Ltd
The Women's Digital Community Centre opens up new opportunities for women, to enter into training and employment in higher paid and higher skilled sectors and to self-employment in the ICT sector. The provision of an informal, inclusive atmosphere aims to attract women who may see formal training institutions as impersonal and threatening.

Families Learning Together
Total Cost: £43,811 - EU Grant: £21,467
Sponsor Llandrillo College
The aim of the project is to enable those with limited access and little previous experience of learning post-16 to gain access and support within their immediate community. It provides the first step back into learning by encouraging learning activities through new and existing Family Learning Programmes. The project operates on a flexible timetable, which will enable individual beneficiaries to receive individual training programmes. It also gives parents the opportunity to learn with their children thus developing themselves and their children’s capacity to learn.

Skills for Life Two
Total Cost: £129,979 - EU Grant: £58,746
Sponsor Crest Co-operative Ltd
Skills for Life Two is a work-based project. It provides training for the young (14 to 30), disadvantaged, disabled, disaffected and socially excluded people in local communities.
The project has run training courses in the Rhyl West Ward where there is intensive and positive support from both trainers and peer groups. It provides stepping-stones to training and further employment opportunities.

Community Autos Training
Total Cost: £100,700 - EU Grant: £40,280
Sponsor Llandrillo College
This project facilitated the transition of young people into employment by helping them identify and achieve learning and career goals. The learning programme was designed to build a comprehensive integrated package around vocational units in motor vehicles maintenance, thereby enabling beneficiaries to gain vocational skills as well as the key skills and confidence building.

SME Training Solutions
Total Cost: £771,404 - EU Grant: £340,954
Sponsor Llandrillo College
Training needs and training capacity differ across the spectrum of SMEs. Some train strategically in line with their business plans, others respond to organisational or technological change and others not at all. This project will provide a "total training solution" matching business needs with a comprehensive and flexible training programme.

New Opportunities
Total Cost: £225,798 - EU Grant: £143,758
Sponsor Llandrillo College
The project aims to improve the participation of 192 women in the labour market through the provision of management and IT skills leading to qualifications at Level 3. In addition the project will deliver soft outcomes such as confidence building, communication and team working.

ASPIRE
Total Cost: £745,095 - EU Grant: £440,975
Sponsor Llandrillo College
The project promotes and extends access to learning by facilitating progression for new and former ESF beneficiaries into employment or further learning opportunities. The goal is to support local communities in the achievement of their aspirations for a good quality of life through the provision of localised training and supported progression opportunities
The project addresses issues of employability by providing supported employment and vocational tasters and training for those who have recently started on localised taster courses.

Women’s Enterprise
Total Cost: £597,681 - EU Grant: £382,514
Sponsor Llandrillo College
The project builds upon a Phase I project by delivering cross curriculum courses to women combining the skills of enterprise and self-employment with vocational skills such as plumbing and decorating. This second phase will introduce work placements for beneficiaries and mentor training for employers.
It aims to provide women with the skills and confidence to enter self/employment in vocational areas, where they have traditionally been under-represented e.g. electronics, motor vehicle.

Working Towards Employment
Total Cost: £930,021 - EU Grant: £525,292
Sponsor Vale of Clwyd Mind
The project has been designed as a work placement scheme to give work opportunities to people suffering from mental health problems, the objective of which is to ease beneficiaries into mainstream work or training. The work scheme builds confidence and an integral part of the scheme is support and training linked to employability. This is an innovative approach to helping a disabled and disadvantaged group of people.

Rhyl Women’s Workshop
Total Cost: £640,322 - EU Grant: £315,844
Sponsor Llandrillo College
An outreach project which aims to provide women with vocational skills and the skills of business and self employment to promote business start up for women in male dominated sectors of the economy. All beneficiaries study a core curriculum and with guidance select an optional area of vocational study. The project provides training in a women friendly environment during family friendly hours and in addition to this offers free dependant child care, free travel, a dedicated support worker, access to a qualified counsellor and independent benefit and housing advice.

Community Regeneration

Denbighshire Rural Network
Total Cost: £300,000 - EU Grant: £150,000
Sponsor Cadwyn Clwyd
This project supports community-led activities in rural villages in Denbighshire with the overall aim of enhancing the local economy.The project focuses on:

• Facilitating access to services
• Ensuring protection and conservation of the rural heritage
• Encouraging tourist and craft activities

The project is implemented on a community level with four area-based Community Action Groups operating at the grass-root level in the Dee Valley, Hiraethog, Clwydian Range and the Vale of Clwyd.

Denbighshire Community Key Fund Phase I and II
Phase I
Total Cost: £587,507 - EU Grant: £385,888
Phase II
Total Cost: £639,169 - EU Grant: £419,934
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The project provides funds to enable capital grants to be awarded to community led projects that seek to enhance the quality of life and strengthen capacity within Denbighshire’s most deprived communities. It will encourage the participation of local people in activities that improve their local socio-economic circumstances. Eligible activities include physical; environmental, cultural, social and economic actions that seek to support beneficiaries in achieving greater levels of social and economic engagement. The second phase also includes an element of revenue funding which is to be granted to promote or 'kick start' the project.

Denbighshire Rural Key Fund Phase I and II
Phase I
Total Cost: £435,204 - EU Grant: £182,798
Phase II
Total Cost: £471,636 - EU Grant: £198,087
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This is a partnership application made by Denbighshire County Council on behalf of the Council, Denbighshire Voluntary Services Council and the Cadwyn Leader + group to establish a fund to support community led initiatives that seek to enhance the strength, capacity and quality of life within rural communities in Denbighshire.
The fund will support activities which have a specific emphasis on community activities including support and advice for community organisations and enterprises; community environmental initiatives; community transport, dependant and childcare facilities; local festivals and cultural initiatives; ICT Initiatives; capacity building measures. Phase 2 will continue the work of the Denbighshire Rural Key Fund to enable Capital and Revenue grants to be awarded for community led initiatives.

FFORCE – Fforddlas Community Enterprise
Total Cost: £424,831 - EU Grant: £211,415
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The project, providing new purpose built units, supports the creation and expansion of opportunities in the social economy, thus helping tackle the problem of social exclusion through employment creation and learning opportunities. The project is located on a brownfield site in Rhyl SW and has been developed in response to an identified demand for suitable low cost community enterprise employment and development space. It will support community activities to improve the local skills base, create employment and provide services of social, economic and environmental significance.

Fforddlas Enterprise Centre
Total Cost: £653,302 - EU Grant: £261,320
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The Fforddlas Enterprise Centre is a strategic development on a brownfield site. It will create employment opportunities, improve the local environment and bring into productive economic use 513 sq.m/5,520sq. ft of currently redundant property. It will also include the construction of 6 new units offering 479sq.m /5,156 sq ft of additional employment space. Redundant property brought back into use will comprise of 2x256sq m/2,760sq ft large business expansion units. Additional employment space created by the project will comprise of 2x68.5sq m/737sq ft expansion units and 4x85.5sq.m /920sq. ft expansion units.

Community Regeneration Team 1
Total Cost: £163,406 - EU Grant: £104,580
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
This project will develop confidence, skills and positive attitudes of people living in Denbighshire’s most deprived communities. This will be achieved through the provision of informal education and support for (potential) community activists including the creation of five Lifelong Learning Centres. It will be guided by the principles that community development includes all people that are disadvantaged by society. The proposals will ensure that relevant groups are involved in local partnership; networks are kept fully informed of developments, groups that directly tackle barriers to inclusion are assisted.

Creating Partnerships to Empower Communities
Total Cost: £164,713 - EU Grant: £121,888
Sponsor Denbighshire County Council
The primary aim of the project is to reduce social exclusion and to increase community safety in the most deprived communities in Denbighshire. The project encourages and develops bottom up strategies and projects with the goal of reducing social exclusion and empowering communities. This will be achieved through the collaborative efforts of Denbighshire County Council/Rhyl Community Agency/Rhyl West and South West Community Strategy who all have identified the need to provide additional resources to assist in the socio-economic regeneration of the aforementioned communities.

Action Research in Community Led Development-REACH
Total Cost: £58,451 - EU Grant: £33,451
Sponsor Denbighshire Voluntary Services council
This project involves activity research within a community led development in Denbigh. It operates, over three sites, a youth project, a family project and a community involvement project. The research element differs from many in that the impetus for development has stemmed from the community. REACH will contribute to economic growth by improving the employability and economic potential of the Community.

Morfa Hall Voluntary Sector Centre
Total Cost: £1,150,000 - EU Grant: £483,000
Sponsor Wales Council for Voluntary Action
The aim of this project is to purchase and refurbish Morfa Hall in Rhyl, and enable the WCVA in North Wales to improve its service to the voluntary and community sector in North Wales. The project will establish a regional voluntary sector centre that will complement the delivery of services the Wales Council for Voluntary Action already provides in Newtown and Cardiff. The project aims to be accessible to all and provide a number of small to medium meeting rooms for community groups, comprehensive training and workshop facilities, interpretation room with direct access to advice and information.