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UAH 100,000 for your own business: registration for the Do Your Business with Kurator competition has been opened. How to apply?
22 september 2023
Organizers have opened registration for the Do Your Business with Kurator, HoReCa business idea competition to support businesses affected by war or developed by the military.
The registration of participants for the Do Your Business with Kurator competition will last from September 22 to October 23. The organizers, the MHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation and the Kurator brand, will allocate a total of UAH 1 million for grants and choose 10 winners.
Who is eligible to apply?
Entrepreneurs should operate in HoReCa: food establishments (cafés, restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries, etc.), hotels, and catering.
Businesses should operate in one of these 13 regions of Ukraine, namely, in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava, Sumy, Ternopil, Khmelnytskyi, Cherkasy, and Chernihiv.
How to fill out an application?
If you have any questions when filling out the form, you can ask them during online consultations with competition experts or contact the information desk at +38 (067) 440-59-00, 09:00 to 13:00 from Monday to Friday.
What will the competition winners receive?
Funds. Thanks to microgrants, entrepreneurs will be able to launch new businesses and scale or relocate existing ones.
Expert support. Jury members, entrepreneurs, and restaurateurs will help during consultations and the application filing stages. Each participant will gain experience, understanding of their own business processes, and expertise from HoReCa professionals.
Partnership. The organizers keep their partnership and cooperation with the winners of previous Do Your Business competitions: invitations to joint events to present one’s own experience, services, or products. They also provide informational support to the participants in their own social networks and media by discussing their cases.
It should be recalled that in the spring of 2022, the Do Your Business competition organizers sponsored 80 projects for a total of UAH 7.4 million. Moreover, last year, the MHP-Gromadi Charitable Foundation provided financial assistance of over UAH 6 million to 74 micro-businesses.
Background:
“Do Your Business” is a business idea competition for entrepreneurs from small towns and villages. Since 2020, the winners and participants of the competition have started dozens of new businesses in the agricultural sector, light and food industries, green tourism, etc. The competition supported 74 micro-businesses in 2022 and gave them UAH 6 million in total. This year, it increased the number of micro-businesses to 80 and the amount of money to UAH 7.4 million. In addition, 10 Ukrainian veterans and their families won the #Worth Doing Your Business competition, organized by MHP in cooperation with the Ukrainian Veterans Fund of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. They received financial support from UAH 500,000 to 1.5 million to start and develop their own agricultural businesses. The overall competition budget was UAH 6 million.
MHP-Gromadi is a Ukrainian charitable foundation that was founded in 2015. Its main mission is the comprehensive development of communities. Its operational geography includes 12 regions of Ukraine: more than 700 towns and villages. The Foundation has been providing systematic help to the people affected by the war since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: it has assisted Ukrainian defenders and rescuers, communities, hospitals, and maternity homes; it has supported charitable institutions that care for orphans and the elderly; and it has helped people who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to the war.
KURATOR is a brand of product solutions for the HoReCa community (hotels, restaurants, catering), developed by MHP. It offers a versatile product range for different types of establishments, business models, staff qualifications, and the number of cooks. The KURATOR brand produces more than 100 types of processed products, including chicken, beef, and various culinary solutions. The product range is tailored to meet the needs of professional kitchens.