Business Grants in Eastern Cape
Discover funding opportunities for businesses in Eastern Cape. Browse grants from provincial and national programs.
Eastern Cape Business Grants
56 grants found
Small Enterprise Manufacturing Support Programme
The purpose of the Small Enterprise Manufacturing Support Programme is: To build a manufacturing sector for an improved industrial base (productive economy) through a focused import replacement programme; and Build the industrial base for both the domestic market and external market (in particular, the African Union market). The programme aims to contribute to South Africa’s localization strategy by supporting manufacturing enterprises to: Increase the relative contribution of manufacturing to GDP; Grow manufacturing employment targets; Change the structure of manufacturing to high tech manufacturing; Increase labour productivity’ and Drive import replacement through locally manufactured goods increase exports in manufactured goods. Light Consumer Goods: Food and Beverages/ agro-processing; Clothing, leather and textiles; Petroleum and chemical products; and Furniture and other manufacturing. Hi-Tech Manufacturing: Electrical machinery; Green technology/ Digital Technology- 3D; and printing, etc. Revitalize Industrial Production: Basic Iron and Steel. Scope of the programme: Furniture manufacturing – Furniture manufacturers, including coffin makers; Basic iron, metal and steel manufacturing – Manufacturers and suppliers of iron and steel products; Petroleum and chemical manufacturing – Manufacturers of sanitisers, disinfectants, recycling, paints, oils, hair & skin products, and related products; Food and Beverages manufacturing – Agro-processors of primary agricultural products including beverages sourced from small-scale farmers; Clothing, leather and textiles – The makers of shoes, linen, garments including pattern makers, designers, tannery and fabric manufacturers amongst others; Electrical machinery manufacturing – Manufacturers of transformers, electric generators, electric motors, high voltage engineering, and power electronics; and Green Technology/ Digital Technology – Makers of PV panels, clean coal technology,3D printing.
Transformation Fund
The Transformation Fund provides funding for transformation projects
DTIC Women Empowerment Fund
The DTIC Women Empowerment Fund provides funding to women-owned businesses
Television and Film Fund
The Television and Film Fund provides funding for television and film projects
Spaza Shop Support Fund
The aim is to support township Community Convenience Shops, including spazas. The funding will be utilised for the refurbishment of businesses and facilitating wholesale aggregation.
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.
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.
Rural, Township and Community Development Fund
Rural, Township, and Community Development Fund was designed to promote sustainable change in social and economic relations and support the goals of growth and development in the rural economy, through financing of sustainable enterprises.
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.
Alternative Energy Solutions Funding
The dtic and the NEF have established the Alternative Energy Fund to help black business install green energy solutions.