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Funding and business support in North West England

Open to businesses in North West England, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.

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National schemes continued

Open to businesses across England or the UK, including North West England.

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QEST Apprenticeship

QEST

Grants of up to £12,000 to enable hands-on collaboration between a skilled master and a talented apprentice looking to start a career in craft, supplementing the apprentice's wage.

Amount
Up to £12,000
Deadline
Closes 17 February 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

QEST Emerging Maker Grant

QEST

Grants of £3,000 to £10,000 for early-stage craftspeople (typically practicing 4 years or less) to develop core skills and techniques through essential training.

Amount
£3,000 to £10,000
Deadline
Closes 17 February 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

QEST Scholarships

QEST

Grants of £3,000 to £18,000 for mid-career to established craftspeople to refine their craft, deepen specialism or innovate, plus a place on the Cockpit PDP.

Amount
£3,000 to £18,000
Deadline
Closes 17 February 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale Ups

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

The UK Government has launched the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale Ups (VFRS4SU), a targeted grant scheme to help UK scale ups in Clean Energy, Life Sciences, and Digital and Technologies hire internationally by reimbursing eligible visa application fees for specialist hires and their de...

Amount
£5,000 to £25,000
Deadline
Closes 1 March 2027 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantEngland-wide

People and Research

Historic England

The People and Research Scheme offers grants for activities that help people understand and champion the historic environment through, engagement, skills, training, education and heritage project-based posts.

Amount
£250 to £300,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2027 at midnight
Area
EnglandLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Music Export Growth Scheme

BPI, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)

The scheme is targeted at artists that have achieved reasonable levels of commercial success in the UK and are now looking to break internationally.

Amount
£5,000 to £50,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2027 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Electric vehicle chargepoint grant for residential landlords

Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)

A grant providing landlords with 75% off the cost of purchasing and installing electric vehicle chargepoints at residential properties, up to £500 per socket.

Amount
75% of the cost, up to £500 per socket, for up to 200 sockets a year across all your properties
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2027 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Plug-in Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle Grant

Department for Transport, Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)

Grant of up to £2,500 towards the cost of a new electric wheelchair accessible vehicle, available to vehicle dealerships and manufacturers.

Amount
Up to £2,500
Deadline
Closes 5 April 2027 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

Collaborate

Advanced Propulsion Centre UK

Match-funded grants for consortium partners to support design, development and delivery of strategic zero-emission vehicle technologies.

Amount
£2,500,000 to £20,000,000
Deadline
Closes 7 April 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
Opening soonGrantUK-wide

DRIVE35 Funding Programme

Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade

A zero-emission automotive funding programme with grants across innovation, scale-up and transformation, delivered by the Department for Business, Science, Innovation and Trade with the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK and Innovate UK. Aimed at automotive businesses and projects, from start-up to large-scale transformation.

Amount
Unprecedented £4 billion of grant funding available to 2035 for automotive R&D, scale-up and transformation
Deadline
Closes 7 April 2027
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10
OpenGrantEngland-wide

Improve Animal Health and Welfare

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Direct payments to livestock keepers in England for vet visits and diagnostic testing to reduce endemic diseases and improve animal health and welfare.

Amount
Funding available is dependent on species with separate payments for the review and follow-ups; see GOV.UK for full detail
Deadline
Closes 19 June 2027 at midnight
Area
EnglandLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Environmental Crimes

ESA Business Applications

A non-competitive BASS call for proposals on space-enabled responses to environmental crime.

Deadline
Closes 25 June 2027 at 1pm
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

UK Global Screen Fund: International Distribution (P&A Support)

British Film Institute (BFI)

Non-recoupable grants to help UK films reach international cinema audiences through support for prints and advertising costs.

Amount
Up to £100,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2028 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantEngland-wide

Poultry Biosecurity Review

Rural Payments Agency, UK Government

Grant to support veterinary surgeon-led biosecurity reviews on eligible poultry farms in England to reduce disease incidence and improve animal health and welfare.

Amount
Up to £430
Deadline
Closes 30 September 2028 at midnight
Area
EnglandLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearGrantUK-wide

UK Global Screen Fund International Distribution Festival Launch Support

British Film Institute (BFI)

Non-recoupable grants for UK sales agents and producers to support festival launches of UK films, covering enhanced publicity, marketing and technical costs.

Amount
Up to £15,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2029 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

UK Global Screen Fund: International Co-production

British Film Institute (BFI)

Non-recoupable grants of up to £300,000 for independent UK producers to work as minority or majority partners on international co-productions in film, animation and documentary.

Amount
Up to £300,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2029 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearGrantNational

Boiler Upgrade Scheme

Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ofgem

Grants of up to £7,500 to property owners in England and Wales to replace fossil fuel heating with low carbon heating systems including heat pumps and biomass boilers.

Amount
£5,000 to £9,000
Deadline
Closes 30 December 2029 at midnight
Area
England, WalesLocal Landscape rating 10 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Sovereign AI Visa Reimbursement Scheme

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, Sovereign AI

Reimbursement of visa-related fees for international hires into UK-based R&D roles for AI companies supported by the Sovereign AI Fund.

Amount
£500 to £151,650
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2030 at 12 noon
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
OpenGrantUK-wide

Cladding Safety Scheme

Homes England

Funding to address life safety fire risks associated with cladding on residential buildings over 11m in height (11-18m in London). For the person or organisation legally responsible for the building's external repairs.

Amount
£250,000 to £20,000,000
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2030 at midnight
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 8 out of 10
OpenGrantEngland-wide

National Highways Lorry Parking Facilities Improvements Scheme

National Highways

Grant of up to 50% of capital costs (up to £20 million total) for lorry parking facility operators to improve HGV driver facilities, welfare, security and parking capacity on or near England's strategic road network.

Amount
up to 50% of the capital cost of an improvement project
Deadline
Closes 31 March 2031 at midnight
Area
EnglandLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programmeUK-wide

UK Export Support Hub

Office for Investment

A government information hub for international businesses expanding into the UK, offering guidance on setting up, tax, visas, bank accounts, funding and finding UK experts. It is aimed at overseas businesses looking to set up in the UK.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 6 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programmeUK-wide

Go4Growth Programme

Go4Growth

A free, fully-funded programme providing tailored training, digital content, templates, events and 1:1 mentoring to help micro businesses, small businesses and VCSEs win public sector work and become Public Sector Supply Ready.

Amount
FREE to use
Deadline
Open all year
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programmeNational

Business Debtline free debt advice

Business Debtline

Free, confidential and independent debt advice from a charity for small businesses and self-employed people struggling with debt. Advisers have experience of running small businesses.

Amount
Free
Deadline
Open all year
Area
England, WalesLocal Landscape rating 9 out of 10
Open all yearSupport programmeUK-wide

Quality Franchise Association

Quality Franchise Association

A not for profit trade association that assists franchise businesses and individuals interested in starting a business through franchising. It offers free franchise guides, free franchise training courses and access to franchise events.

Deadline
Open all year
Area
United KingdomLocal Landscape rating 7 out of 10

Email me more like this

We will email you when new funding appears for a business in North West England.

How often

We send nothing else, and every email has a link to stop. How we use your address

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