Post Office Development Fund (Wales)
The first Post Offices to be awarded a share of a new £4.5m fund to help sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses diversify and improve their Post Offices have been announced. The fund, which will run for three years and is open to every sub post office in Wales, aims to help with business and marketing advice; advertising; training; and some set-up costs for new services. Funding can also be applied for improvements such as creating better access to buildings; upgrading computer equipment; improving security or providing better signs for the outside of premises.
Under the scheme, sixty three post offices throughout Wales have been awarded grants worth over £1.1million in total. Fifteen Post Offices have been awarded grants of up to £5,000 each for small capital projects and forty-eight have been awarded up to £20,000 each for larger capital projects. Nineteen of the Post Offices have also received up to £15,000 in revenue funding which will help employ new staff or increase staff hours to provide more services. Applications for revenue funding can be submitted at any time. For capital funding the next deadline is the 31st October 2009.
