LoCASE is now finished, for ideas and information on how we’ve helped businesses, see our website: https://locase.co.uk/ and our Business Tool Kit: https://locase.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Environmental-Toolkit-VF.pdf
For information on local grants, please contact your local borough or district council. If you are based in Kent, try the Kent and Medway Growth Hub or contact us at lowcarbon@kent.gov.uk.
My name is Jean Allen and I run a company called Home Instead and we provide care in the home for the elderly, it’s called ‘domiciliary care’. I have an office in Frinton and we cover Clapton, Frinton and Walton with our service. I found out about LoCASE when I was investigating a bike for
Myself because I can’t use an ordinary bike or even an ordinary electric bike and I’d been working with a gentleman called Lee Pugh from eCargo Bike Colchester, they promote electric bikes for businesses. What happened was, we found the bike that would suit me and he said there is
Some funding you can apply for so he directed me to LoCASE. I found it a very reasonable process. Sometimes I had to ring up and say what does this bit mean I haven’t got a clue but that’s with any
Grant I’ve ever done. So, people were helpful and I felt that they were positive and wanted you to succeed and they were open about what you could or couldn’t have so that it it meant that we put work
In and we were successful rather than putting in something and then being told no you don’t comply. I found people very good. The result was I got 40% of the funding that I needed to get the bike
And set it all up. It helps me a lot because I use it for local transport and it saves me using the company car which I was kind of hogging because my arthritis got worse and I couldn’t walk
Like I had planned to. So with this I can give the team the company car and I can use this for local. It helps me with exercise, it’s a non-aerobic form of exercise. It helps me with exercise,
Helps me get out and about, it’s pleasant to go out and about on the bike. So it gives me support for mobility, helps me with my job and it’s got a social factor to it as well. I would say go
For it and do it carefully and put effort into your application and yes it’s very good so try.