Including Southport, Bootle and Crosby
As of 1 November 2026, 303 schemes are open to businesses in Sefton; 19 of them are only for Sefton or Liverpool City Region. Updated 1 Nov 2026.
In October 2026, no scheme only for Sefton or Liverpool City Region opened or closed.
What opened and closed across the North West this monthTalk to someone in Sefton
Schemes for Sefton alone, not for the whole of Liverpool City Region.
InvestSefton, InvestSefton (Sefton Council)
Enterprise, business support and inward investment service of Sefton Council, offering help with business plans, finding sites and premises, identifying funding and dealing with the council. Aimed at businesses starting, operating or growing in Sefton.
Open to businesses anywhere in Liverpool City Region, Sefton included.
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.
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.
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.
River Capital
Fee-free, interest-subsidised loans up to £1m for capital expenditure projects by Liverpool City Region businesses that create jobs.
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.
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.
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.
Jobcentre Plus
Jobcentre Plus offers recruitment advice, work trials, apprenticeship support, and help employing people with disabilities to employers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Local services that help businesses in Sefton. Each number is from the organisation's own website.
Growth Platform (Liverpool City Region's Local Growth Hub)
Points Liverpool City Region businesses to local and national support, programmes and funding.
Business & IP Centre Liverpool
Free business databases, plus advisers, workshops and patent clinics, for people starting or growing businesses.
Council service helping Sefton businesses with business plans, premises, funding and council contacts.
Your chamber of commerce: Liverpool Chamber of Commerce (0151 227 1234)
For the whole region or the North, Sefton 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 Sefton.
Open to businesses in Sefton, 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 Sefton come first.
In-person events in the next 30 days in Sefton, then within about five miles of it. 58 online events are open to anyone.
Tue 3 Nov10:00
Sefton Professional Development Centre · Free
Wed 11 Nov
The Lake House · InvestSefton
Wed 4 Nov07:45
Somewhere in West Lancashire · about 5 miles outside · West Lancashire Investment Centre
Wed 11 Nov14:00
Somewhere in West Lancashire · about 5 miles outside · Lancashire Digital Hub
Wed 11 Nov17:00
Somewhere in West Lancashire · about 5 miles outside · Lancashire Digital Hub
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. Those with a known address are dots on the map below.
Workspace · Crosby · Coworking £100 + VAT pcm, including meeting room use.
Hot desks, private offices, studios, meeting rooms and outdoor space
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
Event venue · Southport
Training rooms and event space
Arts venue · Southport · Theatre: capacity 405 including wheelchair and carer positions.
A theatre or auditorium, studios, meeting rooms, training rooms, event space, exhibition space and catering
Community venue · Crosby
Meeting rooms, training rooms and catering
No business in Sefton 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
Stories about businesses, schemes and events here, from the news we read every day.
GOV.UK business finance and support finder
GOV.UK business finance and support finder
Councils first, then the organisations with the most schemes open here.
Each town's page shows the businesses listed there, its events, places to work and meet, and the local schemes for businesses.
Sefton is a council area in Liverpool City Region, in North West England. Its biggest towns are Southport, Bootle and Crosby.
Next to it: West Lancashire, Knowsley, Liverpool
Choose an area on the map to see its page. The shaded shapes are its towns, each with its own page. The dots are its workspaces and venues. 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 Liverpool City Region. Show open funding for Sefton on your website. Every area