Village SOS is giving around 250 villages across the UK a share of £5.3 million to kickstart a community business.
The Village SOS Competition will give around 250 awards of between £10,000 and £30,000 to launch community businesses.
The competition aims to support inspiring business ideas that will bring people together in villages across the UK and support activities and enterprises that will tackle the challenges they face.
Entering the competition is easy – they can even accept entries from informal community groups – so click here to get started. The deadline for applications has been extended the deadline to 20 October to give groups more time to work on their enterprising ideas.
You must be a Village SOS member to enter the competition, so if you haven’t already, join here
Find out more about the competition
If you’re not in a village but would like to know how to set up a community enterprise that would benefit your area, or connect with like minded people in your community please go to www.villagesos.org.uk
Village SOS is run in conjunction with the Big Lottery Fund, the BBC and The Plunkett Foundation
Let us know how you get on…
