Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness
As of 1 November 2026, 284 schemes are open to businesses in Cumbria. None of them is only for Cumbria yet: they are for the wider region or the whole country. Another 3 are only for part of Cumbria. Updated 1 Nov 2026.
What opened and closed across the North West this monthTalk to someone in Cumbria
Nothing just for Cumbria is open on the site right now. The schemes below are open more widely, and you can apply from Cumbria.
Schemes for Cumbria and other areas named with it, such as a loan fund for several districts.
River Capital
Debt finance from £25,000 to £100,000 for new or growing businesses in the North West.
Boost Business Lancashire, 3D360 Printer
Free or subsidised online and in-person training in advanced manufacturing topics such as 3D printing, robotics and AI, for employed, self-employed and other learners in Lancashire.
Schemes for a single council area in Cumbria. Each area's page lists its own.
Local services that help businesses in Cumbria. Each number is from the organisation's own website.
Advice, training, funding, networking and start-up help for businesses across Cumbria.
Cumbria Accelerator (Cumbria Combined Authority)
Fully funded one-to-one advice for established SMEs across Cumbria, from the Combined Authority.
Your chamber of commerce: Cumbria Chamber of Commerce (01228 534120)
For the whole region or the North, Cumbria included. The soonest to close first.
Support programme · Open all year
Investment · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Membership or network · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Cumbria.
Open to businesses in Cumbria, local and national, soonest first.
What it does, how long it has been going, how many people work there, what it needs help with and what it is looking for: the best matches in Cumbria come first.
In-person events in the next 30 days in Cumbria, then within about five miles of it. 58 online events are open to anyone.
No in-person events found in or near Cumbria in the next 30 days.
Coworking spaces, incubators and workspaces a business can use, and venues to hire for a meeting, training day or event, each from its own website.
Managed offices · Carlisle
Private offices, meeting rooms and catering
Meeting rooms to hire · Carlisle
Meeting rooms, training rooms, event space, catering and private offices
Studios and workshops · Sedbergh · Studios are priced between £140-£370 per month.
Studios, meeting rooms, training rooms and labs or workshops
Coworking space · Barrow-in-Furness · Desk for a Day £17.50 +VAT; Membership desk once a month £10 +VAT per month (minimum 6 month term)
Hot desks, dedicated desks, meeting rooms and private offices
Managed offices · Kendal · Annual rental prices start at £19 sq/ft, including service charges, utilities, and premises insurance.
Private offices
Heritage venue · Keswick · Half day (up to 4 hours) £75; full day (9am - 5pm) £120.
Dedicated desks, hot desks, meeting rooms, event space and catering
Managed offices · Cleator Moor
Private offices, meeting rooms and training rooms
Conference centre · Penrith · Pink Room and Green Room: full day £300+ VAT, half day £250 + VAT.
Meeting rooms, event space, catering and hot desks
Event venue · Kendal · Up to 8 people seated theatre style
Meeting rooms and catering
Community venue · Barrow-in-Furness
A theatre or auditorium, meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space, exhibition space and catering
Heritage venue · Bowness-on-Windermere · Up to 20 people seated theatre style
Meeting rooms, event space and catering
Conference centre · Ambleside · Up to 37 en-suite rooms for overnight guests
Meeting rooms, event space, a conference hall, outdoor space and catering
Arts venue · Kendal · Screen Three max. 15; Warehouse 26/40 seated; The Malt Room max. 300; Theatre max. 260
Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, a theatre or auditorium, event space, catering and studios
Conference centre · Carlisle · Fratry Hall up to 120; Fratry Undercroft up to 60; Prior's Room up to 16; Cathedral Café up to 80
Meeting rooms, event space, catering and outdoor space
Meeting rooms to hire · Carlisle
Meeting rooms, training rooms, event space, catering and private offices
Arts venue · Workington
Meeting rooms, a theatre or auditorium, studios and catering
No business in Cumbria has listed itself yet. Is yours here? List it, free: we read your website to say what you do and put you on the map.
Groups and memberships a business here can join, then the networks and chambers based here.
Membership or network · Open all year
Councils first, then the organisations with the most schemes open here.
Each number counts the schemes open to that council area, not counting national ones. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.
Local Landscape gathers these details automatically from public web pages, and only some have been checked by a person, so check them with the organisation before you apply. Part of the North West. Show open funding for Cumbria on your website. Every area