Thornaby-on-Tees is a town in Stockton-on-Tees, Tees Valley. About 23,000 people live there (Census 2021).
As of 1 November 2026, businesses in Thornaby-on-Tees can apply to the 311 schemes open across Stockton-on-Tees; 8 of them are only for Stockton-on-Tees or Tees Valley. Updated 30 Oct 2026.
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Schemes for Stockton-on-Tees or Tees Valley, not for the whole region, which businesses in Thornaby-on-Tees can apply to.
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.
Invest Stockton-on-Tees
The Invest Stockton-on-Tees team provides free, expert business support to companies starting up, growing or relocating in Stockton-on-Tees.
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.
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.
All 8, and everything else open in Stockton-on-Tees, on its page
Local services that help businesses in Thornaby-on-Tees and the rest of Stockton-on-Tees. 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 Stockton-on-Tees (Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council)
Free advice for Stockton-on-Tees businesses on premises, planning, recruitment and funding.
Your chamber of commerce: North East England Chamber of Commerce (0300 303 6322)
Open to businesses in Thornaby-on-Tees, 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 for Stockton-on-Tees come first.
No business in Thornaby-on-Tees 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 Thornaby-on-Tees.
Thornaby-on-Tees is a town in Stockton-on-Tees, Tees Valley. The darker shape is the built-up area the Office for National Statistics counts as Thornaby-on-Tees; the lighter ones are the towns around it, each with its own page.
Council areas next to Stockton-on-Tees: Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Darlington, County Durham, North Yorkshire
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 Stockton-on-Tees. Every area