Brilliant Basics is a capital fund delivering small-scale tourism infrastructure improvements across Wales.
This year’s fund is open to:
- Local Authorities
- National Park Authorities
The purpose of the fund is to deliver improvements in basic but essential visitor infrastructure at strategic tourism destinations across Wales to ensure that all visitors have a positive and memorable experience throughout all aspects of their stay.
For this round of funding, all applications must meet priority (1) below and at least one of the other 3 key priorities:
- Environmentally sustainable destinations and responding to the climate emergency. Develop new, or transform existing, infrastructure to make the destination more sustainable, helping to reduce the carbon footprint.
- Alleviate pressure points at ‘hot spot’ locations and supporting high quality tourism destinations.
- Inclusive tourism and enhancing accessibility. Support projects that remove obstacles and barriers and improve access to facilities for all.
- Enhancing the visitor offer, for example, through developing product experiences that provide a sense of place such as event infrastructure, interpretation schemes, trails and projects that showcase local food, heritage, culture and the Welsh language.
Level of funding Available
This is a capital fund. Revenue costs are not considered.
Total grant available is £300,000 with a maximum intervention rate of 80%. There is no minimum grant amount.
The closing date for the Expression of Interest is 22 November 2024, no later than 12pm midday.
For further information please select the following link: Finance | Business Wales (gov.wales)