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Business grants and support in Harrogate

Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire, York and North Yorkshire. About 76,000 people live there (Census 2021).

As of 1 November 2026, businesses in Harrogate can apply to the 314 schemes open across North Yorkshire; 24 of them are only for North Yorkshire or York and North Yorkshire. Updated 1 Nov 2026.

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Business events in and near Harrogate

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

Within about five miles

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Places to work and meet in Harrogate

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 (1)

Event venues to hire (4)

  • Great Yorkshire Events Centre

    Conference centre · Harrogate · over 450 delegates

    Meeting rooms, a conference hall, event space, catering and outdoor space

  • Harrogate Convention Centre

    Conference centre · Harrogate · Auditorium: 1,977 theatre style. Royal Hall: 978 theatre style. Studio One: 1,200 theatre style.

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

  • Harrogate Library

    Meeting rooms to hire · Harrogate · Claro room: 4; Carnegie room: 6; Nidderdale room: 6

    Meeting rooms

  • Pavilions of Harrogate

    Conference centre · Harrogate · From 2 to 450 delegates across 14 rooms; up to 300 cabaret style in the largest room layout

    Meeting rooms, training rooms, a conference hall, event space, outdoor space and catering

Places to work and meet across North Yorkshire

Only for North Yorkshire or York and North Yorkshire 24 schemes

Schemes for North Yorkshire or York and North Yorkshire, not for the whole region, which businesses in Harrogate can apply to.

Open all yearSupport programme

Arboriculture, Forestry and Land-Based

Craven College

Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build arboriculture, forestry and land-based skills, delivered by Craven College. 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.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

IT Technician Skills Bootcamp (North Yorkshire)

Leep Talent Ltd

Flexible training programme of up to 16 weeks to build Level 3 IT cloud technician skills, delivered by Leep Talent Ltd. 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.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenSupport programme

Strive Live Start-Up Incubator (Autumn 2026)

Enterprise CUBE, Strive Live, York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub

A free online start-up incubator with weekly live training, one-to-one advice and on-demand learning, for people running or launching a start-up in York and North Yorkshire. Participants could win up to £2,500 in micro grants at the end of the programme.

Amount
Up to £2,500
Deadline
Closes 16 December 2026
Area
York and North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Adult Skills Fund

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub

Supports employers and individual learners with accredited and non-accredited courses to bridge skills gaps, improve career opportunities and support career progression.

Amount
Courses may be fully or part-funded, dependant on learner eligibility criteria
Deadline
Open all year
Area
York and North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Applied AI for Business Transformation

Primed Talent

A 10-week skills bootcamp from Primed Talent, four days a week and mostly online, on using AI in business: business analysis, data, process improvement and automation. Fully funded for independent learners and the self-employed; employers putting their own staff on it pay 10% (small and medium-sized businesses) or 30% (large businesses).

Deadline
Open all year
Area
York and North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programme

Apprenticeship Levy Transfer Scheme (York and North Yorkshire)

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority's apprenticeship levy transfer scheme pays 100% of apprenticeship training and assessment costs for employers based in York and North Yorkshire, while funds last.

Amount
100% of apprenticeship training and assessment costs, paid to the training provider (wages and travel not covered)
Deadline
Open all year
Area
York and North YorkshireLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10

All 24, and everything else open in North Yorkshire, on its page

Need to talk to someone?

Local services that help businesses in Harrogate and the rest of North Yorkshire. Each number is from the organisation's own website.

  1. York & North Yorkshire Growth Hub

    Free, impartial advice for York and North Yorkshire businesses on starting, running and growing.

    See York and North Yorkshire Growth Hub on Local Landscape

    0800 246 5045

  2. Business North Yorkshire (North Yorkshire Council)

    Free, impartial council help for North Yorkshire businesses to start, grow, find funding and premises.

    0300 131 2131

Your chamber of commerce: West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce (York & North Yorkshire Chamber) (0113 247 0000)

Closing in the next 30 days

Open to businesses in Harrogate, 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 North Yorkshire come first.

No business in Harrogate 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 Harrogate.

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Where Harrogate 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 TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffieldOtley: see its pageWetherby: see its pageKnaresborough: see its pageHarrogateGreat Yorkshire Events Centre: conference centreHarrogate Convention Centre: conference centreHarrogate Library: meeting rooms to hirePavilions of Harrogate: conference centreSpringfield House: managed offices

Harrogate is a town in North Yorkshire, York and North Yorkshire. The darker shape is the built-up area the Office for National Statistics counts as Harrogate; the lighter ones are the towns around it, each with its own page.

Council areas next to North Yorkshire: Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees, Darlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, York, County Durham, Westmorland and Furness, Lancaster, Pendle, Ribble Valley, Doncaster, Bradford, Leeds, Wakefield

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 North Yorkshire. Every area