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Business grants and support in Wirral

Including Birkenhead, Wallasey and Bebington

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

In October 2026, no scheme only for Wirral or Liverpool City Region opened or closed.

What opened and closed across the North West this monthTalk to someone in Wirral

Across Liverpool City Region 20 schemes

Open to businesses anywhere in Liverpool City Region, Wirral included.

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 20 in the funding list

Need to talk to someone?

Local services that help businesses in Wirral. 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

  3. Wirral Business Support Service (Wirral Council, delivered by Wirral Chamber of Commerce)

    Free adviser support, business reviews, start-up help and workshops for Wirral businesses.

    0151 650 6940

Your chamber of commerce: Wirral Chamber of Commerce (0151 650 6940)

Across North West England or the whole North 17 schemes

For the whole region or the North, Wirral 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 Wirral.

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 Wirral, 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 Wirral come first.

Business events in and near Wirral

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

Within about five miles

Events for Wirral, week by weekOnline events

Places to work and meet in Wirral

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.

Workspaces (3)

  • Egerton House

    Managed offices · Birkenhead

    Private offices, meeting rooms and training rooms

  • Make Hamilton

    Workspace · Birkenhead

    Studios, meeting rooms, a conference hall, catering and training rooms

  • Start-Yard

    Workspace · Birkenhead, Wirral · Office units from £350 to £650 per month (ex. VAT), including electricity.

    Private offices, hot desks, meeting rooms and outdoor space

Event venues to hire (5)

  • 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

  • Floral Pavilion

    Arts venue · New Brighton · Theatre 814 seats; Conference Suite up to 500 theatre style, 200 classroom

    Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, a theatre or auditorium, event space and catering

  • Hulme Hall

    Event venue · Wirral · From 30 to 400 delegates

    Meeting rooms, a conference hall, a theatre or auditorium and catering

  • Make Hamilton

    Workspace · Birkenhead

    Studios, meeting rooms, a conference hall, catering and training rooms

  • Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

    Heritage venue · Birkenhead · Groups of any size from 5 to 150

    Meeting rooms and catering

All 7 workspaces and venues in Wirral, on a map

No business in Wirral 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 Wirral

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

Organisations that support businesses in Wirral

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

Towns in Wirral

Each town's page shows the businesses listed there, its events, places to work and meet, and the local schemes for businesses.

Where Wirral is

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffieldBirkenhead: see its pageWallasey: see its pageBebington: see its pageHeswall: see its pageWest Kirby: see its pageBirkenhead Central Library: community venueEgerton House: managed officesFloral Pavilion: arts venueHulme Hall: event venueMake Hamilton: workspaceStart-Yard: workspaceWilliamson Art Gallery & Museum: heritage venue

Wirral is a council area in Liverpool City Region, in North West England. Its biggest towns are Birkenhead, Wallasey and Bebington.

Next to it: Cheshire West and Chester

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 Wirral on your website. Every area