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Cyber Toolkit for Small Businesses

Cyber Toolkit for Small Businesses is a free online toolkit from the National Cyber Security Centre that helps sole traders, micro businesses and small organisations in the United Kingdom protect themselves from cyber attacks. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by National Cyber Security Centre

Checked against the official page (growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk) on 1 Nov 2026.

A free online toolkit from the National Cyber Security Centre giving personalised, step-by-step cyber security actions for sole traders, micro businesses and small organisations.

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These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with National Cyber Security Centre before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Free

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Sole traders, micro businesses and small organisations can use the free toolkit to build their cyber defences.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Sole traders, Small (10 to 49 staff)

Confirmed on the official page

Could your business apply?

Tell us about your business and an AI will compare it with this scheme's rules: what fits, what doesn't and what to check with National Cyber Security Centre. It takes a few seconds.

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How to apply

Visit the provider website via the 'Find out more' link.

Not confirmed on the official page

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.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • Page does not state a deadline; open status not stated beyond being a free toolkit.
  • Page lists the area as several North East local authorities; the toolkit is provided online and its eligibility by location is not clearly stated.
  • Listed as a resource on the North East Growth Hub; the page was last updated 17 October 2025.

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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. Checked against the official page (growthhub.northeast-ca.gov.uk) on 1 Nov 2026. Its details last changed on 1 Nov 2026. A person last checked it on 31 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with National Cyber Security Centre before you apply.

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