Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership: Business productivity

The business productivity service provides a route to fully understanding and unlocking enhanced productivity improvements in your business through access to fully funded consultancy support. Your support will be managed by a productivity manager and industry-leading productivity experts from Leeds Beckett University.

The proven process will enable you to:

• Benchmark the productivity performance of your business
• Identify measurable improvements
• Produce a productivity improvement plan
• Drive productivity and profitability

Grant support of between £5,000 and £50,000 is available to selected businesses where the advisory element of the project has identified a need to invest in new technologies and/or equipment that will accelerate productivity improvements. 

Eligibility requirements

• Have between five and 100 employees
• Be based, or looking to locate, in West Yorkshire (Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds or Wakefield)
• Have been established for at least 12 months and operate from commercial premises
• Generate the majority of turnover from trading with other businesses
• In respect of the grant element only have access to match funding to invest alongside the grant. Please note that the minimum grant is £5,000 at an intervention rate of 25%, therefore minimum total project costs are £20,000 and you must have at least £3 of funding available to invest for every £1 of grant awarded.

Your project must:

• Demonstrate, how with advisory intervention, it will lead to productivity improvements within your business
• Consist of capital investment in new technologies/equipment, or land/premises to achieve meaningful improvements in productivity and growth
• Create one job paying above the Real Living Wage for every £15,000 of grant received, and/ or upskill existing employees through accredited training for every £5,000 of grant received. In terms of the latter, eligibility will be determined on a case-by-case basis.