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Business grants and support in Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town in Wirral, Liverpool City Region. About 110,000 people live there (Census 2021).

As of 1 November 2026, businesses in Birkenhead can apply to the 302 schemes open across Wirral; 18 of them are only for Wirral or Liverpool City Region. Updated 29 Oct 2026.

Talk to someone in Birkenhead

Business events in and near Birkenhead

In-person events in the next 30 days in Birkenhead, 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 Birkenhead

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 (3)

  • 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

  • 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

Places to work and meet across Wirral

Only for Wirral or Liverpool City Region 18 schemes

Schemes for Wirral or Liverpool City Region, not for the whole region, which businesses in Birkenhead can apply to.

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

All 18, and everything else open in Wirral, on its page

Need to talk to someone?

Local services that help businesses in Birkenhead and the rest of 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)

Closing in the next 30 days

Open to businesses in Birkenhead, 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 for Wirral come first.

No business in Birkenhead has listed itself yet. Is yours here? List it, free: we read your website to say what you do and pin you on the map at Birkenhead.

Other towns in Wirral

Where Birkenhead is

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Birkenhead is a town in Wirral, Liverpool City Region. The darker shape is the built-up area the Office for National Statistics counts as Birkenhead; the lighter ones are the towns around it, each with its own page.

Council areas next to Wirral: Cheshire West and Chester

The dots are its workspaces and venues. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics (built-up areas, 2022).

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 Wirral. Every area