The Provincial Council announces 60,000 euros in grants for street vendors and itinerant bakers

The Provincial Council of Soria has announced grants to support the itinerant food sector, bakery manufacturers, and the itinerant provision of essential personal care services in rural areas. This is done through the Governing Board Agreement of November 9, 2026, the extract of which is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Soria number 130, dated November 13, 2026 (pages 4082 to 4085), with the official reference BOPSO-130-13112026. The deadline for submitting applications is one month starting from the day following the publication of the extract, that is, until December 14, 2026, extending to the first following business day if the last day falls on a Saturday or holiday.

Framework: Soria Plan 2026 and Regional Support

The call is supported by the Connected and Healthy Soria Plan 2021-2027, approved by Agreement 137/2021, of December 16, of the Junta de Castilla y León. The funding comes from the grant awarded to the Provincial Council of Soria by Resolution of the Second Vice-Presidency of the Junta de Castilla y León on October 1, 2026, within the axis “Promotion of territorial cohesion in the framework of the demographic challenge. Strategic sectors,” for the year 2026.

The extract is published under articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of the General Grants Law 38/2003, of November 17, and the full text can be consulted in the National Grants Database. The regulatory bases are the General Ordinance regulating the granting of Grants by the Provincial Council of Soria, published in the BOP number 147, of December 23, 2009.

The stated objective is to reduce the costs of a basic service whose absence would lead to a shortage of essential products for part of the population, and to reward the social function of itinerant trade and its contribution to population retention.

Amounts: 53,000 euros for food and 7,000 for personal care

The aid is financed from budget item 2026-23160-47920 “Subv. Itinerant Trade,” endowed with 60,000 euros, divided into two blocks:

• Block A: 53,000 euros for itinerant sales activities of everyday products.
• Block B: 7,000 euros for itinerant provision of personal care services.

The amount of aid is equivalent to the monthly self-employed worker quotas actually paid and not subsidized by another public body between January 1 and October 31, 2026. The caps are 2,500 euros per application for the itinerant sale of everyday products and 1,000 euros for podiatry and hairdressing. Only one application per activity and applicant is permitted and, if demand exceeds the credit, it will be prorated among the applications that meet the requirements; the surplus from one block may reinforce the other.

Requirements: self-employed with vehicle and towns without commerce

Beneficiaries may be natural persons (self-employed workers) and legal entities, including communities of assets and civil societies, with tax and social domicile in towns of the province excluding the capital, and registered under the following CNAE codes: 10.71, 10.72, 47.11, 47.12, 47.21, 47.22, 47.23, 47.24, and 47.27 for food and bakery; 86.99 (only if the actual activity is podiatry) and 96.21 for hairdressing.

It is required to provide the service on a regular basis in towns of fewer than 20,000 inhabitants lacking an equivalent permanent establishment and to have a vehicle associated with the activity, expressly excluding passenger cars. Podiatry and hairdressing services must be provided in municipal premises or spaces with authorization from the city council. Fixed posts without itinerancy, street markets, fairs and festivals, and home visits are excluded.

Interested parties have access to the annexes and guidelines on the Diputación de Soria website and must provide the application, the bank account ownership certificate, and a responsible declaration listing the population centers, activity, frequency, and vehicle. The extract appears signed by the president, Benito Serrano Mata, in Soria, on November 10, 2026.

Impact on the rural environment

This line reaches towns where there is no longer a shop or bakery and where the hairdresser or podiatrist only appears if someone pays for the travel: subsidizing the self-employed quota is, in practice, sustaining the only means of supply and personal care for thousands of residents in the Soria rural environment.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Soria, no. 130, November 13, 2026, section II. Local Administration, pp. 4082-4085 (official reference: BOPSO-130-13112026).