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Business grants and support in Guisborough

Guisborough is a town in Redcar and Cleveland, Tees Valley. About 18,100 people live there (Census 2021).

As of 1 November 2026, businesses in Guisborough can apply to the 311 schemes open across Redcar and Cleveland; 8 of them are only for Redcar and Cleveland or Tees Valley. Updated 30 Oct 2026.

Talk to someone in Guisborough

Places to work and meet in Guisborough

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 venues to hire (1)

Places to work and meet across Redcar and Cleveland

Only for Redcar and Cleveland or Tees Valley 8 schemes

Schemes for Redcar and Cleveland or Tees Valley, not for the whole region, which businesses in Guisborough can apply to.

Open all yearLoan

Teesside Flexible Investment Fund

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.

Amount
£100,000 to £2,000,000
Deadline
Open all year
Area
Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-TeesLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
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Business Redcar Cleveland

Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council

Business engagement service of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, providing support to businesses at every stage, from pre-start and start-up through to established companies and inward investors.

Area
Redcar and ClevelandLocal Landscape rating 6 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

The Freelancer Network

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.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
Tees ValleyLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
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Business Enterprise Fund

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.

Amount
£500 to £250,000
Area
Tees ValleyLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
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Business Industrial Competitiveness Scheme

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.

Amount
Up to £40
Area
Tees ValleyLocal Landscape rating 6 out of 10
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Mercia Capital

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.

Amount
£100,000 to £2,000,000
Area
Tees ValleyLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10

All 8, and everything else open in Redcar and Cleveland, on its page

Need to talk to someone?

Local services that help businesses in Guisborough and the rest of Redcar and Cleveland. Each number is from the organisation's own website.

  1. Business Tees Valley

    Links Tees Valley businesses to support, funding and expertise; officers advise SMEs wanting to grow.

    See Tees Valley Combined Authority on Local Landscape

    01325 792600

  2. Business Redcar Cleveland (Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council)

    Council team helping businesses start, grow and invest in Redcar and Cleveland.

    See Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council on Local Landscape

    01642 444366

Your chamber of commerce: North East England Chamber of Commerce (0300 303 6322)

Closing in the next 30 days

Open to businesses in Guisborough, 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 Redcar and Cleveland come first.

Business events in and near Guisborough

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

No in-person events found in or near Guisborough in the next 30 days.

Events for Redcar and Cleveland, week by weekOnline events

No business in Guisborough 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 Guisborough.

Other towns in Redcar and Cleveland

Where Guisborough is

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 Redcar and Cleveland. Every area