Closing date – 11 June 2025, 9:00 am

The Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) offers capital grants to support small businesses and community infrastructure projects in rural communities, to help to improve productivity and strengthen the rural economy.

One of its principal aims is to support new and existing rural businesses in the development of products and facilities. Another is to create or improve assets and services that benefit the community and the local economy.

REPF grants must be used for capital projects and spent on lasting assets such as buildings or equipment. All projects must account for the ongoing maintenance costs and responsibility for this will remain with the asset owner. No asset liability shall be transferred to the council because of any grant funding.

Projects must be in a rural areas and for REPF purposes, rural areas are defined as: 

  • towns, villages and hamlets with populations below 10,000 and the wider countryside
  • market or ‘hub towns’ with populations of up to 30,000 that serve their surrounding rural areas as centres of employment and in providing services.

This means that the city centre (town wards) is excluded from this fund as well as areas around Whiteley.

Key dates:

Closing date: Wednesday 11 June at 9am
Applicants notified: July 2025
All grant funding to be spent by: 28 February 2026

 

Register and apply here

 

 

 

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