Skip to content
Local Landscape
Open all yearSupport programme

Local Landscape rating8/10

Clarity 6 · Confidence 8 · Completeness 10

Help to Grow: Management Course

Help to Grow: Management Course is a 12-week leadership programme for business owners, managers and senior leaders at small and medium-sized businesses across the UK, with a £750 joining fee per person. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Small Business Charter, Northumbria University · funded by UK Government

Checked against the official page (smallbusinesscharter.org) on 1 Nov 2026.

A 12-week leadership development programme for senior leaders, business owners and managers of small and medium-sized businesses, covering leadership, innovation, digital adoption, marketing, employee engagement, operations and financial management.

Apply or find out more Official page

These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with Small Business Charter before you apply.

Could your business apply? Check in a few seconds

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

Not stated

You put in: A £750 joining fee per person; the government pays the rest (90%).

Who can apply

Businesses across all sectors, including social enterprises, can apply if they are based in the UK, have between 5-249 employees, have been operating for more than a year, and have at least one link of management in the business structure. The attendee should be a decision maker in the business. Charities are not eligible.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 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 Small Business Charter. It takes a few seconds.

We send what you type, and this scheme's details, to an AI. We don't keep it unless you save it as your profile. More about this

How to apply

Apply on the Small Business Charter website.

Checked by a person

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Checked by a person

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

  • Specific subsidised fee amount not stated
  • Whether the programme is currently accepting applications not stated

Have you used this scheme?

Rate it to help other businesses decide whether it is worth their time. Once 3 businesses have rated it, their ratings move its Local Landscape rating up or down a little. We never show who gave a rating. How ratings work

You need a free business profile to rate it. Make your profile, or sign in if you have one.

Related open schemes

Everything open across the North

More from Small Business Charter

About Small Business Charter

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 (smallbusinesscharter.org) on 1 Nov 2026. Its details last changed on 1 Nov 2026. A person last checked it on 5 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Small Business Charter before you apply.

Run this scheme? Claim Small Business Charter's page to keep it right.