Carmarthenshire Enterprise Fund (CEF)

Description

Business premises development grant from Carmarthenshire County Council, funding new and existing commercial premises where jobs are being created as a result, with priority given to applications delivering tangible local-economy benefits in key sectors. RE-VERIFICATION (20 Aug 2026): the officialUrl now serves a renamed 'Carmarthenshire Enterprise Fund (CEF)' page (updated 20 Jan 2026) rather than the previously-recorded 'Carmarthenshire Rural Enterprise Fund (CREF)' — the council's own funding index no longer lists a separate CREF, and the rural/sole-trader framing and tiered percentage-by-business-size structure are gone. Title, amount, and eligibility fields below updated to match the current live scheme; slug kept unchanged to avoid breaking existing links.

Eligibility summary

• Available in: Wales.
• Applicant must be a registered business.
• Most relevant to: Agriculture & Fisheries, Manufacturing, Construction.

Notes

Grant offer is either £30,000 per job created or up to 50% of costs, whichever is the lesser figure, up to a maximum award of £240,000 (may be increased in exceptional circumstances). No employee-count cap or rural-only restriction stated on the current page (contrast with the previous CREF structure of 45%/35%/25% by business size and an ~£100,000 cap). Priority given to applications with tangible local-economy benefit in key sectors.

Requirement

Businesses and sole traders in Carmarthenshire developing new or existing commercial premises where the project creates jobs; applicants must be the freehold owner of the property, or a leaseholder with a minimum of seven years remaining on the lease at the anticipated time of final grant payment.