VistaPrint has announced the 20 winners of its Realising the Remarkable grant programme with Enterprise Nation. The winners will each receive an equal share of the £150,000 grant money as well as access to VistaCreate Pro , 99designs by Vista´s Silver logo and brand guide package and £500 to spend on marketing materials on the VistaPrint website.
According to data collected by VistaPrint between Dec 2022 and Jan 2023, four in five (83%) UK SMEs are struggling to plan beyond 2023 and, while just over a third (34%) are confident that they’ll hit targets, a larger proportion (40%) are unsure and 11% suspect they will not. The grant programme, which was launched in January 2023 aims to aid resilient entrepreneurs who seek to grow and thrive despite the difficult economic circumstances and uncertainty they face.
In the application, small business owners had to demonstrate a clear plan for growth, concrete examples of how access to the grant would be spent to improve their business, how the support package would aid their growth through expert marketing and branding aids and how this would have a positive impact on the local community.
