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Tackling health inequalities: the Mayor's big ideas challenge for SMEs

Tackling health inequalities: the Mayor's big ideas challenge is a competition giving up to £100,000 to small and medium-sized businesses in West Yorkshire with innovative ideas to tackle health inequalities. This scheme has closed.

Run by West Yorkshire Combined Authority · funded by Mayor of West Yorkshire

Last read from westyorks-ca.gov.uk on 29 Oct 2026.

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A £1 million challenge run by the West Yorkshire Mayor to help SMEs develop innovative solutions that make communities in West Yorkshire healthier. The February 2025 round has finished, with three winners and 19 finalists named.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

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Deadline

Not stated

How much

Up to £100,000

Whole fund: £1,000,000, shared between applicants

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Who can apply

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) with innovative solutions tackling health inequalities in West Yorkshire; the challenge ran from 119 eligible applications.

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Business size

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

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How to apply

On westyorks-ca.gov.uk

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Where it is open: West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

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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

Shaded: Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield.

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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. Last read from westyorks-ca.gov.uk on 29 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 29 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with West Yorkshire Combined Authority before you apply.

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