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What the LEADER grant can and cannot support
The following are examples of what the grant funding can support:
- Machinery, equipment and other capital costs.
- Market research/feasibility study costs.
- Marketing costs.
- Training.
- Start-up Costs.
- Professional fees/technical support e.g. architect, surveyor or engineer (the applicant must cover the costs of design and planning permission before approaching LEADER).
- Direct project overheads.
The following are examples of what the grant funding will not support:
- Costs incurred before the contract is approved (such as architects fees and costs associated with obtaining planning permission).
- Costs connected with leasing contracts, interest refinancing, overheads/insurance costs.
- Costs involved in the purchase of production rights (quotas).
- Livestock or for annual plants and their associated costs.
- Mainstream agricultural buildings or machinery.
- Work already started in advance of grant funding.
- All Insurances
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