Cabra announces grants of up to 8,272 euros for SMEs and new jobs

The Cabra City Council has announced the Comprehensive Support Plan for SMEs for the 2026 fiscal year, a package of direct grants aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed workers within the municipality. The call is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba No. 216, dated November 9, 2026, in section VI of Local Administration, under the official reference BOP-A-2026-3742.

Four incentive lines and fixed amounts

The call is processed on a non-competitive basis and is structured into four grant lines, each with a predetermined amount:

• Line 1: incentive for business creation and entrepreneurship, 3,000 euros.
• Line 2: direct grants to companies to boost job creation and hiring, 1,500 euros.
• Line 3: incentive for entrepreneurship for youth up to 35 years old and women over 45 years old, 3,000 euros.
• Line 4: grants for the rental of business premises, 8,272.45 euros.

The stated objective is to facilitate self-employment initiatives, reactivate the labor market, and promote the creation of stable employment through grants for new hires that increase staff numbers. The council frames these lines as an effort to sustain the business and commercial fabric of the municipality, prevent business closures, contain job losses, and encourage professionals to relocate to the municipal district.

Requirements for companies, youth, and women

The call details the beneficiaries for each line. For business creation, natural and legal persons, entities without legal personality, joint ventures, and civil societies with a commercial purpose are eligible, provided they were established in Cabra between October 1, 2025, and November 20, 2026, and have new registrations with the State Tax Administration Agency and Social Security.

Regarding employment, companies located within the municipal district that formalize indefinite contracts or extend these contracts to full-time, with contracts signed within the same time interval, may apply for the grants. The third line is aimed at youth up to 35 years old and women over 45 years old who launch newly created business initiatives in the municipality.

For the rental of premises, a tax domicile in Cabra, SME status, and a lease contract of at least 12 months are required. A business premise is considered to be one leased exclusively for workshops, factories, shops, or offices, excluding warehouses, large retail stores, communal markets, housing contracts of the business owner, and municipally-owned premises.

Terms, deadlines, and submission of applications

The call for applications is governed by the Bases of the Comprehensive Support Plan for SMEs 2025, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba No. 145, dated July 29, 2025, and is registered in the National Grants Database (BNDS) under call number 939653.

The application period opens the day following the publication of the call summary and ends, in any case, on November 30, 2026, for the four lines. Applications are to be submitted to the Registry of the Cabra City Council using the forms attached to the call; those who use a different model will have 10 days to rectify this, and failure to do so will be considered a withdrawal. Any of the forms provided for in Article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations is also permitted. The call is signed by the mayor, Fernando Priego Chacón, dated in Cabra on November 3, 2026.

Impact on the local productive fabric

The grants arrive with a tight schedule: interested parties have less than a month from publication to gather the documentation and submit the application. For freelancers and small businesses in Cabra, the premises rental line, with 8,272.45 euros, is the highest amount, while incentives for permanent hiring and for the entrepreneurship of youth and women over 45 focus on the goal of establishing stable employment in the municipality.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Córdoba, No. 216, of November 9, 2026, section VI - Local Administration (official reference: BOP-A-2026-3742).