In order to benefit from the Walloon Region’s Chèques Entreprises subsidies, you must first be a company with its main operating headquarters in the Walloon Region. The main place of business is the place where the company employs the most workers.

Secondly, this company must meet at least one of the following conditions:

• be an SME (employs less than 250 people and has an annual turnover of less than 50 million euros, or a balance sheet total not exceeding 43 million euros) or a self-employed person
• be a start-up: a company registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises for less than 5 years
• be a “project holder“: one or more persons presenting a project leading to the creation or takeover of a company whose place of operation is/will be located in Wallonia (includes self-employed persons in a complementary capacity)
• be a non-profit organisation with an economic vocation (new in 2022). The not-for-profit organisation is subject to VAT; it employs at least 1 person bound by an employment contract; it has a goods or services activity on a given market; it has public funding of less than 50% (excluding employment aid, on the basis of the latest approved accounts)

Does your company fit into any of the above descriptions? Then we can submit an Enterprise Cheque application for you.

Spade can introduce the file for you thanks to its secure “Provider” access on the Chèques Entreprises platform.

To submit a file, we need your company number: the file must be linked to the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises. When we encode the file on the platform and it is submitted, its status is “awaiting validation”.

A series of documents must be provided to the administration:

• Cheque request to be signed
• Agreement to be signed
• De minimis certificate for SMEs
• Declaration on honour for non-profit organisations
• Any additional documents depending on the cheque chosen

When your file is complete, you give it to us and we do the administrative work. Of course, as soon as we have news, we will let you know!

Once the grant application has been submitted (completed with all the required documents signed), it takes a few working days to get a response (no more than a week). This delay depends mainly on the number of applications to be processed by the administration, but our experience has shown us that we mostly receive an agreement within 5 working days.

The SPW EER (Service Public de Wallonie – Économie, Emploi, Recherche) may request additional information to assess the file. Remember that a complete file (all documents clearly identified and filled in) and of good quality (clearly and sincerely explain your approach) is a file that is processed more quickly!

In all cases, the mission can only start after obtaining the administration’s agreement. Once the agreement has been received, the beneficiary (you) is asked to pay its share (the 10 to 25% of the invoice amount that is not covered by the Walloon Region) directly to the administration. Then the mission can begin.

The Chèques Entreprises is a helping hand from the Walloon Region to improve the digital aspect of your professional activity. The Region’s intervention aims to ensure that Walloon companies implement a good digital strategy. It supports them by financing their reflection and the establishment of an action plan. If your digital strategy were a house, this would be the time to choose the best site for building it and to draw up the plans: the basis for a quality construction to serve you and your ambitions.

Carrying out this stage of thinking and planning is a job that many professionals in Wallonia do every day. Chèques Entreprises allows you to surround yourself with these experts to set up your digital eco-system and develop the digital maturity of your company.

The Chèques Entreprises are a gateway to these professionals: financial assistance to go and see them with peace of mind and take full advantage of their skills. With an intervention of 75 to 90% of the cost of their mission, it is a great opportunity to develop your digital projects on a solid and sustainable basis.

Spade and the Chèques Entreprises

Spade is a Chèques Entreprises certified expert for the digital part. You can therefore get funding from the Walloon Region to benefit from our services, as long as it concerns digital projects.

Whether you are self-employed or a large team, have a small or very comfortable budget, have very specific needs or vague ideas, every project starts from a situation.

We map out that situation. Let’s define where you can go, what you’ll need to do it and what your limits are. We ask about your audience: who will you talk to? Who will use your services, go to your website? What will they be looking for and what will you provide them with as a result? How will your pages be constructed? What will be the layout of your site, the type of content to be produced? What schedules should be established to ensure a regular and quality feed?

These are many questions but the answers are not far away – and we tell you, the Region is funding you to take the time to answer them.

Take advantage of it!

Find out more about Spade’s Chèques Entreprises.