Small associations of the social and solidarity economy will be able to benefit from the emergency fund of 30 million euros promised this fall, said Friday the Secretary of State in charge of the file by announcing the opening of the one-stop shop allowing structures to come forward.
Called UrgenceESS, this measure, intended primarily for small entities in the sector employing less than ten employees, will be piloted by the associative movement France Active, which oversees 40 regional associations.
The fund aims to support 5,000 structures by spring.
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SSE structures are fully eligible for all the mechanisms put in place by the government since the start of the crisis.
But we note that many of them do not know and do not ask for this aid: the challenge is to give them the means to activate it.
Beyond information, if access to aid remains difficult, it is necessary to be able to complete the system: this is the objective of the UrgenceESS fund
, ”recalls Secretary of State Olivia Grégoire in a
press
release.
This fund, adopted by the National Assembly as part of the fourth amending finance bill for 2020, will offer assistance of between 5,000 and 8,000 euros to each association by making a request, depending on its size and needs.
The measure also provides for a "
diagnosis of the economic situation to direct the structures towards the aid and support measures
" from which they can benefit. "
We mobilize our partners, at national level as in each territory, as well as the shareholders of our companies. guarantee and investment.
Committed entrepreneurs can count on us.
The urgency is solidarity
”, added Pierre-René Lemas, President of France Active.
At the end of October, the Union of Employers of the Social and Solidarity Economy (Udes) had asked to expand to one billion euros the investment fund used to finance measures to assist the entire sector, against 400 million euros initially provided for in the recovery plan.
