Green Business Grants

Funding to reduce carbon emissions and save money on energy bills.

Funding available

Cut carbon, cut costs

A Green Business Grant is designed to help small and medium businesses and organisations purchase and install new products and equipment that reduce your carbon emissions, cut your utility costs and improve your energy efficiency.

Applications must help you to achieve a measurable reduction in carbon emissions when compared to your current baseline emissions.

Grant is available first come, first served with a total of £2 million made available. You can apply for a grant of up to £15,000. All projects are expected to take up to 6 months and must be completed and claimed by the end of March 2026 at the latest. It is likely the scheme will close for applications in Autumn 2025, but could close early if all funds are awarded. Applications are assessed on their own merit against set criteria and awards are made on a rolling basis throughout the grant round.

Am I eligible?

You must:

Have a trading address in the Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol or South Gloucestershire local authority areas.
Be able to provide suitable match funding for your project.
Be a business such as a private limited company, sole trader, partnership, community interest company and community benefit society, or a registered charity or community amateur sports club.
Be a small or medium sized enterprise (SME) or organisation, this means you must not employ more than 249 people.
Have had an independent energy or carbon assessment done that recommends the project you are applying for grant for.

FAQs

Learn more about accessing Green Business Grants

You can apply for a grant of up to £15,000. The minimum grant available is £200 for micro-organisations and £500 for small and medium organisations. Grants cover between 30% and 60% of eligible capital costs of purchase and installation. The amount you can apply for varies depending on the items you are looking to buy. Full details can be found in the Grant Guidance for Applicants (PDF).

This is a grant and does not need to be repaid. However, Green Business Grants are paid on defrayal. This means if you are successful in securing a grant, you must purchase and complete your project before claiming the funding you have been awarded. You should aim to do this within a 6-month claim window, although this can be extended in exceptional circumstances.

You can use a Green Business Grant to purchase and/or install materials, products and equipment that will result in a measurable reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in your business.

Over £2 million of grant has been awarded under this scheme since 2019. Previous applicants have used a grant for:

LED lighting and better lighting controls
solar photovoltaic panels
roof, wall, pipe and technical component insulation
solar film to reduce the need for air conditioning in the summer
more efficient heating and better controls
air compressors and variable speed drives to improve the efficiency of manufacturing and processing equipment.

Your application must be supported by an independent assessment that confirms that what you want to do is likely to reduce your carbon emissions, with estimated savings calculated and alternative options identified where possible. Our Carbon Surveys provide this advice free of charge, but you can also use a third-party consultant or assessor.

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Contact us

You can contact us by email at lowcarbonbusiness@westofengland-ca.gov.uk with your query and contact details. Please include your business name, the address of your premises within the West of England Combined Authority region and telephone and email contact details.

You can also call the Low Carbon Business Support team on 0117 332 1520 between 9.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Friday. Our phone lines can be busy so please leave a message and we will try and get back to you as soon as we can. Please ensure you leave a name, phone number, email address and a summary of your enquiry.