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Business Growth Service - National business support

The Business Growth Service is a free UK government support programme offering advice, training and guidance for start-ups and small and medium-sized businesses across the United Kingdom. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

Last read from business.gov.uk on 31 Oct 2026.

The UK government's Business Growth Service gives free, impartial advice, expert-led training through the Business Academy, and personalised guides to one-to-one support, opportunities and funding, through Business.gov.uk and a network of partner organisations.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

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Deadline

Open all year

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How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Small and medium-sized businesses in the UK, including people starting a business.

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Business size

Start-ups, Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

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How to apply

Answer a few questions on Business.gov.uk to find funding, support and advice for your stage, or join the Business Academy for free training.

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Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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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 TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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Things we could not confirm

  • The page does not give a single application route or deadline for the service as a whole.
  • Individual support schemes linked from the page have their own rules, which are not set out here.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from business.gov.uk on 31 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 29 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 15 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade before you apply.

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