COMPETITIVE SELECTION OF BUSINESS PROJECTS BY VETERAN ENTREPRENEURS WITH GRANTS OF UP TO UAH 200,000 ANNOUNCED

The Veterans Policy Department of the Sumy Regional State Administration — Regional Military Administration announces the start of application intake and a competitive selection of business projects of small businesses owned by veteran entrepreneurs and combatants, to provide financial assistance within the Regional Comprehensive Programme for the Protection and Support of Veterans and Their Family Members for 2024–2027.

The competitive selection is held in accordance with the Procedure for providing financial assistance to support entrepreneurial initiative of combatants through grants for creating or developing their own business.

FINANCIAL TERMS

Financial support is provided on a non-repayable basis from the regional budget of Sumy region.

The maximum grant for implementing one business project is up to UAH 200,000.

WHO CAN TAKE PART?

Small businesses (individual entrepreneurs and legal entities) whose founder (owner) is a combatant, registered and operating in Sumy region for at least one year before the date of application.

WHICH DOCUMENTS MUST BE PREPARED?

1. An application with a feasibility study (TEO) in the established form (Appendix 1 to the Procedure).
2. A certified copy of the combatant’s certificate.
3. An extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs (signed by the applicant, generated as of the end of the previous month).
4. The original tax certificate confirming no arrears (generated as of the end of the previous month).
5. For legal entities — a certified copy of the charter.
6. Copies of financial or tax reports (returns) for the previous year and the latest reporting period of the current year.
7. A confirmation statement in free form that all requirements of the Procedure are met, stating the number of employees and that no other budget grants have been received for this project.
8. Extracts from the register of debtors, the register of corruption offences and on absence of criminal record (submitted if information about the applicant is not available in open registers).

All copies of documents are certified by the applicant personally with the note “True to the original”, a signature, the full name and the date on each page. The originals of the documents must be brought for verification.

DEADLINES FOR SUBMITTING DOCUMENTS

Applications and document packages will be accepted from 2 to 20 November 2026 inclusive.

WHERE TO SUBMIT DOCUMENTS?

The paper document package is submitted in person by the applicant to the Veterans Policy Department of the Sumy Regional State Administration at:

Sumy, 1-a Naberezhna Strilka River Street, 50.

Document intake hours:

• Monday – Friday: 09:00 to 16:00;
• lunch break: 12:00 to 13:00.

CONSULTATIONS AND INFORMATION

For questions about obtaining the forms of the TEO Application and clarifications on the conditions of participation in the competition, please call 050 713 52 72 or email veteran@sm.gov.ua.

We invite veteran entrepreneurs and combatants to take the opportunity to receive financial support for creating or developing their own business.

Source: Putyvl community (putivlska-gromada.gov.ua), https://putivlska-gromada.gov.ua/news/1793359018/