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IP Advance Grant Funding

IP Advance Grant Funding is a grant of up to £15,000 for small and medium-sized businesses in England that are already receiving intensive growth support, to help them pay for innovation and intellectual property work. This scheme has closed.

Run by Innovate UK Business Growth

Checked against the official page (iuk-business-connect.org.uk) on 9 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Grant of 100% of eligible costs, up to £15,000, for businesses on Innovate UK Business Growth advisory support to access Catapults and RTOs for innovation and growth. Also covers an IP Audit scheme where the business pays a share.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Not stated

How much

Up to £15,000

You put in: For IP Audit, the business must contribute £750 (including VAT).

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

The participating business must be receiving intensive growth support from an innovation and growth specialist, as this programme is an integrated part of our core services.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

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

Not confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Contact Innovate UK Business Growth via the contact page; support is first provided after a needs analysis with a specialist.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: England-wide

England

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 England, 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.

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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 (iuk-business-connect.org.uk) on 9 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 9 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK Business Growth before you apply.

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