Benidorm Offers Up To €1,000 To Support New Businesses Launched In The City

The Benidorm City Council has approved nan first information of grants for 2025 aimed astatine supporting entrepreneurship and nan creation of caller businesses. A full of €14,000 has been distributed among 14 recently established enterprises, pinch each receiving betwixt €700 and €1,000 to thief motorboat their economical activity.

Mónica Gómez, nan councillor for employment and section development, explained that this first allocation forms portion of a broader municipal backing line, which this twelvemonth totals €78,500. The objective, she said, is “to stimulate economical maturation and occupation creation successful our city” by backing section entrepreneurs.

To suffice for nan funding, applicants must beryllium recently registered self-employed professionals pinch a fiscal reside successful Benidorm, and must person initiated their business activity betwixt 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025. While residency successful Benidorm is not mandatory successful each cases, those not registered arsenic residents must astatine slightest run a business licensed by nan city.

Gómez noted that this first batch of successful applicants includes a wide assortment of business types, reflecting nan “continued dynamism and diversification of Benidorm’s business ecosystem.” She besides announced that nan method committee responsible for evaluating applications will reconvene successful nan coming weeks to measure further proposals still nether review.

Supporting nan section productive fabric

In 2024, a full of 63 start-up ventures benefitted from this municipal scheme, pinch €52,500 awarded overall. According to Gómez, this illustrates “the committedness of this management to supporting nan section productive cloth and promoting entrepreneurship.” She besides highlighted different initiatives tally passim nan year, including training workshops, business courses and nan section “Ideas for Entrepreneurs” competition.

Applications for this year’s grants stay unfastened until 31 December 2025 and must beryllium submitted done nan City Council’s online portal (https://sede.benidorm.org). Applicants must supply each required archiving and meet a group of circumstantial eligibility criteria.

In bid to entree nan funding, entrepreneurs must registry arsenic self-employed pinch a fiscal reside successful Benidorm and statesman their activity wrong nan aforementioned timeframe. Additionally, they must beryllium listed successful nan taxation registry and enrolled successful nan Special Scheme for Self-Employed Workers (RETA) anterior to applying, but they must not person been registered arsenic self-employed successful nan 3 months preceding nan commencement of their business. Furthermore, applicants must not person received this assistance successful either of nan erstwhile 2 years. They must besides beryllium up to day pinch taxation and societal information obligations and clasp nary outstanding debts pinch nan section authority.

The magnitude awarded depends connected circumstantial conditions. Grants of €700 are disposable to those who found themselves arsenic self-employed successful Benidorm, sloppy of whether they are registered arsenic residents, provided they person obtained a section business licence. Grants of €1,000 are reserved for those who are some registered residents and who person applied for a business licence wrong nan city.

A method committee will measure each applications and find whether grants should beryllium approved and, if so, astatine what level of funding.

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