Enhancing Employment Fund | Sevenoaks District Council

Enhancing Employment Fund

Organisations that help businesses improve their workplaces for staff and customers with physical disabilities or mental health or neurodivergent conditions can now apply for a grant.

Our Enhancing Employment Fund is available for projects that support Sevenoaks District based businesses in one or both of the following themes.

  • Disability awareness, including inclusive recruitment and or / disability confident accreditation
  • Mental wellbeing - supporting staff and customers with mental wellbeing, including awareness of neurodiversity

Grants of £5,000 are available.

To stand the best chance of being awarded a grant, your projects should:

  • Demonstrate how you will address one or both of the themes
  • Have clear, measurable outcomes
  • Have a clear plan setting out how you will reach at least 20 businesses in the Sevenoaks District
  • Demonstrate awareness of the needs and challenges of small businesses
  • Explain how the benefits of your project will be sustained into the future
  • A clear evaluation and monitoring plan.
  • Our Enhancing Employment Fund is made possible by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
     

Make an application

The deadline to apply is midnight on Sunday 24 August 2025.

Before you apply:

  • Make sure you are authorised to complete the application on behalf of your organisation
  • Have your organisation’s registration number (e.g. company or charity registration) to hand
  • Also have your bank details to hand. These will be used as part of our mandatory anti-fraud checks.

Submit your application