• Location
• Eligible Jobs
• Eligible Investment
• Viability
• Need For Grant

Eligible Jobs

All projects must have an impact on employment in the Assisted Areas and must, specifically, create or safeguard jobs within your business. These jobs can either be full-time or part-time but they must be permanent posts.

Only jobs directly employed by your business are eligible.  It is difficult for us to assist those jobs which involve a mobile element, particularly under Aid for Job Creation, although all cases are considered on an individual basis.  As a broad guide, a post which involves an individual spending, say, one day per week or less away from the project premises may be considered eligible while a field sales post which involves only occasional attendance and work at the premises is unlikely to be eligible.

In the case of safeguarded jobs, there must be a real threat to these posts if you did not carry out the project.

You must be able to demonstrate that the project's employment impact within your business will not simply be offset by job losses elsewhere in the Assisted Areas.

Many firms operate in a local market eg. retail, catering, household and personal services.  That is not to say that there is anything wrong with businesses and projects aimed at local markets – simply that the use of RSA in such instances will not result in an overall increase in employment in that activity.

Other examples of markets that are, generally, well served include double glazing, general printing, locally-focussed recycling plants, general joinery, small-scale customer service/order fulfillment operations and locally-focussed food production.

Through RSA, we aim for overall gains in net employment in Scotland, and are therefore more likely to assist projects which service markets wider than Scotland only, and/or where competitors are largely based outside Assisted Areas.

All cases are looked at on an individual basis and it is important to consider the project and not just the existing business - if you are targeting a new market, this may qualify even if your existing activities would not be eligible.