As of 1 November 2026, 311 schemes are open to businesses in Middlesbrough; 8 of them are only for Middlesbrough or Tees Valley. Updated 1 Nov 2026.
In October 2026, no scheme only for Middlesbrough or Tees Valley opened or closed.
What opened and closed across the North East this monthTalk to someone in Middlesbrough
Schemes for Middlesbrough alone, not for the whole of Tees Valley.
Middlesbrough Council
Middlesbrough Council's economic growth and assets team gives strategic support for inward investment, expansion and relocating businesses, plus practical start-up and growth advice, business network links, commercial space and finance information.
Schemes for Middlesbrough and other council areas named with it, such as a loan fund for several districts.
FW Capital
Short-term finance of £100,000 to £2 million, managed by FW Capital, for businesses with a material presence in or delivering economic benefit to Teesside. Interest-only terms, suited to funding advance payment guarantees, performance bonds or contract-related cash flow.
Open to businesses anywhere in Tees Valley, Middlesbrough included.
Enterprise Made Simple
Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build Level 4 advanced digital marketing skills, delivered by Enterprise Made Simple. Open to adults aged 19 and over; fully funded for independent learners and self-employed, 90% funded for small and medium-sized businesses, 70% funded for large businesses.
SWEF
Grants of up to £500 for pre-revenue businesses or up to £2,000 for established businesses, for young people aged 18–30 living in County Durham or Tees Valley.
Tees Valley Combined Authority, Tees Valley Creates
A support service listed by Tees Valley Combined Authority for established businesses, social enterprises and start-ups in the creative, cultural, digital and tech sectors, with help on finance and funding, business planning and networking.
UK Steel Enterprise
Business loans from UKSE for businesses in steel areas, at fixed interest rates: unsecured loans of up to £200,000 for a growing business, or up to £100,000 for a new one, and secured loans.
UK Steel Enterprise
Equity investment from UKSE for businesses in steel areas: up to £1 million on a first round for a growing business, or up to £250,000 for a new one. UKSE takes only minority stakes and rarely asks for personal guarantees.
Business Enterprise Fund
Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) is a not-for-profit social enterprise providing flexible loans to SMEs across the North East and Yorkshire when mainstream lenders cannot fully assist. Start-up loans range from £500 to £25,000, and unsecured growth loans go up to £250,000.
Tees Valley Combined Authority
From 2027, BICS will reduce electricity costs by up to £40 per megawatt hour for eligible manufacturing businesses in the Industrial Strategy's growth sectors and foundational manufacturing industries that meet the relevant electricity intensity threshold. It also exempts eligible businesses from paying the indirect costs of the renewables obligation, capacity market and feed-in tariff.
Mercia
Mercia is a specialist asset manager providing venture, private equity and debt finance to growing regional businesses across the North East and Tees Valley. Its equity investments are typically from £100,000 to £2 million.
Mercia
Mercia Capital, a specialist asset manager, provides equity investments, typically from £100,000 to £2 million, to growing regional businesses at start-up or scale-up stage that cannot be fully funded through conventional borrowing.
NEL Fund Managers
NEL's funds invest in ambitious growing businesses with a finance gap from £25,000, investing up to £2m, and can form part of a larger funding round with other investors.
Business Enterprise Fund
Government-backed Start-up Loans of up to £25,000 with 12 months of free mentoring, delivered by Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) as an approved delivery partner for the Government's Start Up Loans scheme. Aimed at founders who may struggle to access conventional finance.
Local services that help businesses in Middlesbrough. Each number is from the organisation's own website.
Links Tees Valley businesses to support, funding and expertise; officers advise SMEs wanting to grow.
Invest Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough Council)
Council team helping firms start, grow, expand or relocate in Middlesbrough.
Your chamber of commerce: North East England Chamber of Commerce (0300 303 6322)
For the whole region or the North, Middlesbrough included. The soonest to close first.
Grant · Closes 9 November 2026 (8 days)
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Loan · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Support programme · Open all year
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Middlesbrough.
Open to businesses in Middlesbrough, 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 Middlesbrough come first.
In-person events in the next 30 days in Middlesbrough, then within about five miles of it. 58 online events are open to anyone.
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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.
Event venue · Middlesbrough
Private offices, hot desks, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, training rooms, event space and catering
Managed offices · Middlesbrough
Hot desks, private offices, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, a conference hall, catering and a virtual office
Managed offices · Middlesbrough · Competitive rent with stress-free terms
Private offices, meeting rooms and outdoor space
Studios and workshops · Middlesbrough · Studios are available on a first-come, first-served basis with a rolling contract
Studios, event space, exhibition space, training rooms and a conference hall
Event venue · Middlesbrough · 2 to 120 delegates
Private offices, hot desks, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, training rooms, event space and catering
Managed offices · Middlesbrough
Hot desks, private offices, dedicated desks, meeting rooms, a conference hall, catering and a virtual office
Heritage venue · Middlesbrough · Maximum 30 with tables, 60 theatre-style, or 80 standing
Catering
Conference centre · Middlesbrough · Up to 750 people (conference and events space, theatre style); up to 80 people (Discovery Zone)
A conference hall, event space, training rooms, exhibition space, catering and a theatre or auditorium
Heritage venue · Middlesbrough · Meeting room approximately 10 in meeting layout or up to 20 theatre style
Meeting rooms, a theatre or auditorium and catering
Community venue · Middlesbrough · Meetings of 20 to 400; The Crypt up to 400 theatre style; The Courtroom 110; The Old Fire Station up to 80
Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall and catering
Arts venue · Middlesbrough
Meeting rooms, event space, exhibition space, outdoor space and catering
University venue · Middlesbrough · Up to 40 people (The Gateway); up to 10 people (Executive meeting room)
Labs or workshops, meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, event space and catering
No business in Middlesbrough 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
Membership or network · Open all year
Membership or network
Councils first, then the organisations with the most schemes open here.
Middlesbrough is a council area in Tees Valley, in North East England.
Next to it: Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire
Choose an area on the map to see its 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 Tees Valley. Show open funding for Middlesbrough on your website. Every area