About the grant
Shetland Islands Council has established a Rural Retail Services Scheme to support and incentivise businesses to adapt to new ways of working or make investment to remain competitive. The purpose of the Scheme is to make available grant funding to improve the facilities and amenities of local shops, in order to improve their sustainability and ensure they continue to provide a vital local retail service to their community.
The Shetland Rural Retail Services Scheme will offer grants of between £1,000 and £10,000 for eligible businesses to invest in adaptations, improvements and new ways of working eg, energy efficiency, investment in green technology to reduce costs, new systems, etc.
This grant is just one source of support for Shetland's rural shops, you can find details of other sources of support here.