28.05.2024

Every business must make sure that its growth prospects are clear and that the resources needed to achieve these goals are readily available. However, the increasing uncertainty in the market environment may hinder businesses’ ability to secure financing, ultimately affecting their capacity to implement certain strategies. These uncertainties are particularly worrying for some firms.

Recognising this, the Maltese Government, with support from the European Union, has emphasised the importance of supporting enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones. This support through the Malta Business Enhance Grant Schemes 2024, aims not only to facilitate growth but also to encourage the adoption of digitalisation, sustainable technologies, and practices. These schemes, outlined in detail below, are designed to help SMEs achieve sustainable growth and become more competitive, innovative, and resilient to market challenges.

Digitalise your Business

This incentive seeks to assist businesses through non-repayable grants to part-finance investment to digitalise their operations, hence improve their resilience, efficiency, productivity, and customer experience by addressing new digital capabilities and digitalised processes such as product design and engineering, procurement, supply chain/distribution and after sales.

Digitalise your Micro Business

This incentive seeks to assist micro enterprises through non-repayable grants to part-finance investment to digitalise their operations, hence improve their resilience, efficiency, productivity and customer experience by addressing new digital capabilities and digitalised processes such as product and process design and engineering, procurement, supply chain/distribution and after sales.

Business Reports for SMEs

This grant scheme seeks to support SMEs through the provision of non-repayable grants in the form of a lump sum to part-finance a business report procured from external registered consultancy service providers, and which are independent and unrelated to the beneficiary undertaking.

SME Enhance (GBER)

This incentive seeks to support SMEs through non-repayable grants to part-finance investment towards expansion, diversification, innovation of the operations and initial investment, aimed at potentially improving the efficiency of the enterprise.

SME Enhance (de minimis)

This incentive seeks to support SMEs through non-repayable grants to part-finance investment towards expansion, diversification, innovation of the operations and initial investment, aimed at potentially improving the productivity of the enterprise.

Start-Up Enhance

This incentive seeks to support startups through non-repayable grants to part-finance investments in tangible and intangible assets contributing to improve the productivity of the enterprise.

At Fairwinds Management and Accounting Services, through our team of accountants and grant specialists, we can assist clients to secure grants through various measures. We can handle all the preparation works required for all documentation, business plans, budgeting and more. Contact us today on info@fairwindsmanagement.net to know more or visit the following page: https://fairwindsmanagement.net/services/accountancy-services/funding-grant-schemes/.

Fairwinds Management Limited is a MFSA licensed firm offering Business Solutions in Malta. As part of our services, we offer Accounting, Administration, Corporate and Legal solutions.  Fairwinds Management also manages the brand Accounting Services. More information about us and our key services please visit our website. You may reach Fairwinds Management on +356 2704 0903 or info@fairwindsmanagement.net.

Article written by Ms Charlene Sciberras, B.A. (Hons), guest writer, a marketing and business administration specialist with a special focus on corporate, accounting, and legal matters.