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growing places fund

In 2016, Dorset LEP successfully secured £9.4m from central government's Growing Places Fund, a rolling loan scheme, to support innovation, productivity, housing and job creation in Dorset. 

Our Growing Places Fund provided short-term repayable loans to kick-start economic development projects in Dorset that might otherwise have stalled or not got off the ground in the first place. To date, the fund has been invested in business parks, green hydrogen production, broadband infrastructure, manufacturing and agri-tech innovation. 

View projects in Dorset benefiting from the Growing Places Fund