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Grow with Google free digital skills training

Grow with Google is a free online programme of digital and AI skills courses, badges and career certificates for individuals and small businesses across the United Kingdom. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Google

Checked against the official page (grow.google) on 16 Oct 2026.

Free online AI courses, badges and job-ready career certificates from Google to help individuals and small businesses build digital and AI skills. Some courses are paid through Coursera.

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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

Not stated

Who can apply

Free online AI and digital skills courses for individuals; the pages do not state a business-specific eligibility rule.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

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

Not confirmed on the official page

Could your business apply?

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How to apply

Choose a course or certificate and follow its 'Learn more' or 'Get started' link.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Not confirmed on the official page

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 single fee for the whole programme; some courses are charged (for example the Google AI Professional Certificate on Coursera) and others are marked 'No charge'.
  • Several courses are hosted by Coursera or skills.google, whose own rules may apply.
  • Student offer for Gemini is for eligible students only and is not a business support offer.

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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 (grow.google) on 16 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 16 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Google before you apply.

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