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Great Ideas

Great Ideas is a support programme offering personalised innovation help and a chance to pitch for grants of up to £60,000 for businesses in York and North Yorkshire. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

Checked against the official page (yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk) on 9 Oct 2026.

A personalised innovation support programme helping eligible businesses develop ideas into new products, processes and technology, with the chance to pitch for revenue grants of up to £60,000 to implement them.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £60,000

Whole fund: £2,500,000, shared between applicants

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Eligible businesses can access personalised innovation support and pitch for a grant of up to £60,000. Participants with the most investment ready projects get the chance to pitch.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Any size

Not confirmed on the official page

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How to apply

Register your interest through the online form linked on the page.

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Where it is open: York and North Yorkshire

York and North Yorkshire

Confirmed on the official page

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Things we could not confirm

  • Deadline not stated
  • Grant eligibility criteria are on a separate page (https://yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk/great-ideas-grants-guidance/) and were not read
  • Page lists 16 businesses already awarded grants (£13,500 to £60,000); these are past awards, not open calls
  • Programme is developed in partnership with UMi; its own rules may apply to registration
  • Page is dated 19 January 2026 and does not say whether applications are open now

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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 (yorknorthyorks-ca.gov.uk) on 9 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 9 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority before you apply.

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