Young entrepreneurs in South Lanarkshire offered help via new grant scheme

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Young people in South Lanarkshire can apply for a grant for setting up their own businesses. Community enterprise project E3 are offering 50 grants of up to £300 as part of its the Give It A Go programme which will allow young people to test the market with a business.

The programme will help young people aged between 18 to 30 to test a new business idea before starting up to discover if there is already a consumer demand or if their business needs to adapt to meet consumer needs.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Cat Ward, programmes manager for Elevator UK, highlights the benefits of Give It A Go , said: “I suppose one of the main benefits is the money, as we have grants of up to £300 that we can give out.