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Business grants and support in Liverpool City Region

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As of 1 November 2026, 302 schemes are open to businesses in Liverpool City Region; 18 of them are only for Liverpool City Region. Another 3 are only for part of Liverpool City Region. Updated 1 Nov 2026.

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For all of Liverpool City Region 18 schemes

Schemes open to businesses anywhere in Liverpool City Region, and only there.

Closing soonSupport programme

AI for Good

Growth Platform, University of Liverpool Virtual Engineering Centre, Public Life and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

A free programme supporting ten local entrepreneurs to build businesses that tackle real problems for people in the Liverpool City Region, with AI coaching, a business advisor, training and real-world testing. Open to people with a first-hand local problem and drive to tackle it.

Amount
Free programme
Deadline
Closes today
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Business Support Service (Liverpool City Region councils)

Local Authority, Growth Platform, Your Local Authority Business Support team

Expert advice, practical guidance and tailored support to help businesses start, run and grow, including connecting them with funding, workforce, market and growth information and programmes.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Clean Growth UK

Clean Growth UK

Support for businesses to understand their carbon footprint, access university expertise and facilities, and find funding for net zero and sustainability projects.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearLoan

Flexible Growth Fund

River Capital

Fee-free, interest-subsidised loans up to £1m for capital expenditure projects by Liverpool City Region businesses that create jobs.

Amount
Up to £1,000,000
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Gather

Form

Business scale-up programme offering one-to-one advice, AI solutions support and a 6-month premium programme for digital, creative, tech and tech-enabled businesses in the Liverpool City Region.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearInvestment

Health & Life Science Fund

LYVA Labs

Equity investment of £25,000 to £250,000 for innovators in health and life sciences based in Liverpool City Region, with commercial advice.

Amount
£10,000 to £250,000
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Innovation Sprint Programme

Edge Hill University

Fully-funded 4-week innovation support programme with 60 hours of strategy development, workshops, and 1-2-1 facilitation for SMEs to address business challenges.

Amount
Fully-funded
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Jobcentre Plus help for recruiters

Jobcentre Plus

Jobcentre Plus offers recruitment advice, work trials, apprenticeship support, and help employing people with disabilities to employers.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Kindred

Kindred

A membership and funding programme for socially-trading organisations in Liverpool City Region, offering peer-to-peer support and money to help them grow.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

KQ CLICK

KQ Liverpool

KQ CLICK is a business support network designed to help businesses connect, land, innovate, collaborate and knowledge share. All programmes are free of charge for businesses across the Liverpool City Region.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Leadership for Growth

Edge Hill University

Fully funded Chartered Management Institute courses in management and strategic leadership for managers and leaders in scale-up potential SMEs across Liverpool City Region.

Amount
Fully funded
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Liverpool City Region Export Support

Growth Platform, Growth Platform – Liverpool City Region Growth Company

Export support for established or new to export businesses, including a Business Diagnostic tool and export action plan.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10

All 18 in the funding list

Shared with neighbouring areas 2 schemes

Schemes for Liverpool City Region and other areas named with it, such as a loan fund for several districts.

Open all yearLoan

NPIF II Smaller Loans

River Capital

Debt finance from £25,000 to £100,000 for new or growing businesses in the North West.

Amount
£25,000 to £100,000
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Liverpool City Region, Lancashire, CumbriaLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Check statusSupport programme

Advanced Manufacturing Skills Bootcamps

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.

Amount
Self-employed: fully funded. Employed: free to the learner, employer covers the cost. Small businesses: £360 per employee. Large organisations: £1,080 per employee. Prices exclude VAT.
Area
Cheshire and Warrington, Cumbria, Lancashire, Liverpool City RegionLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10

For one part of Liverpool City Region

Schemes for a single council area in Liverpool City Region. Each area's page lists its own.

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Local services that help businesses in Liverpool City Region. Each number is from the organisation's own website.

  1. Growth Platform (Liverpool City Region's Local Growth Hub)

    Points Liverpool City Region businesses to local and national support, programmes and funding.

    See Growth Platform on Local Landscape

    +44 (0) 300 131 2881

  2. Business & IP Centre Liverpool

    Free business databases, plus advisers, workshops and patent clinics, for people starting or growing businesses.

    0151 233 5825

Chambers of commerce here: Wirral Chamber of Commerce (0151 650 6940), Liverpool Chamber of Commerce (0151 227 1234)

Across North West England or the whole North 17 schemes

For the whole region or the North, Liverpool City Region included. The soonest to close first.

All 17 in the funding list

National schemes 265 schemes

Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Liverpool City Region.

Grants (103)Loans and guarantees (15)Investment (9)Support, advice and training (108)Competitions and awards (23)Tax relief (2)

Closing in the next 30 days

Open to businesses in Liverpool City Region, local and national, soonest first.

Narrow it to your business

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 Liverpool City Region come first.

Business events in and near Liverpool City Region

In-person events in the next 30 days in Liverpool City Region, then within about five miles of it. 58 online events are open to anyone.

Within about five miles

Events for Liverpool City Region, week by weekOnline events

Places to work and meet in Liverpool City Region

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.

Workspaces (16)

  • 54 St James Street

    Managed offices · Liverpool · Small suites for 4-5 people from £480.00+ VAT (3-month minimum term)

    Private offices, meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space and catering

  • Avenue HQ Mann Island

    Coworking space · Liverpool · Day pass from £20 per day; Flexible member from £130 per month; Resident member from £230 per month.

    Hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, meeting rooms, event space and catering

  • Avenue HQ St Paul's Square

    Coworking space · Leeds · Day pass from £20 per day; flexible member from £130 per month; resident member from £230 per month

    Hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, meeting rooms, a virtual office and catering

  • Baltic Creative

    Workspace · Liverpool

    Private offices, studios, labs or workshops, meeting rooms, event space and catering

  • Bold Business Centre

    Workspace · St Helens · Space from £50 per week; units from £50 per week; storage units from £90 per week

    Private offices, meeting rooms, a virtual office and labs or workshops

  • BusinessLodge Widnes

    Managed offices · Widnes · Meeting rooms from £15 per hour, hireable from an hour to a full day.

    Private offices, dedicated desks, hot desks, a virtual office and meeting rooms

  • CENTRAL TECH

    Workspace · Liverpool · Coworking membership from £149 pcm (+VAT); hot desks from £40 per day; day-hire offices from £195 per day

    Private offices, dedicated desks, hot desks, labs or workshops, meeting rooms, event space and catering

  • Egerton House

    Managed offices · Birkenhead

    Private offices, meeting rooms and training rooms

All 16 in Liverpool City Region

Event venues to hire (41)

  • 54 St James Street

    Managed offices · Liverpool · Offices for 4 to 16 people; conference rooms for up to 200 people.

    Private offices, meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space and catering

  • Aintree Racecourse

    Conference centre · Liverpool · Indoor capacity for up to 600 delegates theatre-style and 360 cabaret-style

    Meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space, exhibition space, catering and outdoor space

  • Anfield Stadium

    Conference centre · Liverpool · Lounges host up to 500 people for a corporate dinner or 600 in a theatre style setting

    Meeting rooms, a conference hall, exhibition space, event space and catering

  • Avenue HQ Mann Island

    Coworking space · Liverpool · Over 500 workstations; 8 meeting rooms

    Hot desks, dedicated desks, private offices, meeting rooms, event space and catering

  • Baltic Creative

    Workspace · Liverpool

    Private offices, studios, labs or workshops, meeting rooms, event space and catering

  • Birkenhead Central Library

    Community venue · Birkenhead · Up to 50 people when used for talks

    Meeting rooms, training rooms, event space, a theatre or auditorium and exhibition space

  • BrewDog Stadium

    Conference centre · St Helens · Up to 500 delegates; 1873 Lounge up to 400; Eric Ashton Boardroom up to 80

    Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, event space and catering

  • Catalyst Science Discovery Centre

    Event venue · Widnes · The Gossage Room seats up to 16 boardroom style or 30 theatre style.

    Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, event space, catering and exhibition space

All 41 in Liverpool City Region

Places to work and meet, council by council

No business in Liverpool City Region 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.

Networks and communities for businesses in Liverpool City Region

Groups and memberships a business here can join, then the networks and chambers based here.

News from Liverpool City Region

Stories about businesses, schemes and events here, from the news we read every day.

All news from Liverpool City Region

Organisations that support businesses in Liverpool City Region

Councils first, then the organisations with the most schemes open here.

And 3 more. All organisations

Council areas in Liverpool City Region

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHalton: 37 schemes open, not counting national onesWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsley: 37 schemes open, not counting national onesLiverpool: 39 schemes open, not counting national onesSt. Helens: 37 schemes open, not counting national onesSefton: 38 schemes open, not counting national onesWirral: 37 schemes open, not counting national onesDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield
  1. Liverpool39
  2. Sefton38
  3. Halton37
  4. Knowsley37
  5. St Helens37
  6. Wirral37

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 Liverpool City Region on your website. Every area