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Pathways to Work Innovation Fund

The Pathways to Work Innovation Fund is a grant for organisations across the UK, including charities, social enterprises and businesses, to test new ways of helping disabled people and those with long-term health conditions into work. This scheme has closed.

Run by Department for Work and Pensions

Checked against the official page (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk) on 17 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 26 October 2026. 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.

Funding to test new or significantly different approaches that support disabled people and people with long-term health conditions to prepare for work, get a job, stay in work or make progress at work. Open to organisations across the UK, including businesses.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 26 October 2026

As stated: Applications close: 26 October 2026, 11:59pm (Midnight)

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Not stated

Whole fund: £10,000,000, shared between applicants

This may be the whole fund rather than what one business can get

Who can apply

Organisations across the United Kingdom, including charities, voluntary organisations, social enterprises, businesses, universities and research organisations, and councils and other eligible public organisations, can apply alone or as a partnership. UK Government departments cannot apply, and individuals cannot apply alone.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Any size

Not confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Apply on the Application Portal linked from the page; guidance documents are on the GOV.UK guidance page.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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.

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About Department for Work and Pensions

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 (find-government-grants.service.gov.uk) on 17 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 27 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Department for Work and Pensions before you apply.

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