Open to businesses in Northumberland, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
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North East Screen, BBC
Support for production companies to develop digital content for online platforms, delivered by North East Screen in partnership with the BBC.
Business Energy Saving Team
Free energy efficiency assessments, grants for energy-saving equipment, and advice for small and medium-sized businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises to reduce energy costs.
Creative UK
Equity investments of up to £150,000 in commercially viable, growth-minded cultural and creative businesses in the North East.
Creative UK
Loans of £50,000 to £150,000 for commercially viable, growth-minded businesses in the cultural and creative sectors in the North East.
Creative UK
A 5-month business development programme with 6 intensive workshops and 4 coaching sessions for screen sector companies looking to scale, including film/TV, games, immersive and createch businesses.
NBSL
A grant covering up to 50% of eligible business spend for external expertise to implement business growth and improvement plans, for trading SMEs in the North of Tyne area.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
National programme led by UKRI investing up to £500 million over five years to develop and scale high-potential innovation clusters. The North East has been allocated at least £30 million over 5 years to support commercially viable products, services and technologies ready for private investment.
Creative UK
A programme for high-growth creative businesses between seed and scaling stages, offering business support and help to access finance and investment.
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II
Finance to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the North West, Yorkshire, the Humber and Tees Valley
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including Northumberland.
Creative UK
Grants of up to £2,500 to subsidise working with a consultant on business planning, strategy, marketing, IP monetisation or international operation. For companies working in moving image for storytelling, including film, television, games, animation and immersive industries.
UK Defence Innovation
Funding for later-stage research and development and commercialisation of innovative ideas that could improve UK defence and security. Open to businesses of all sizes, including SMEs, and companies new to defence.
Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million as part of a pilot. This is to support high potential businesses developing a technology, product or service in measurement, instrumentation or sensing for UK manufacturing.
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Talan (Delivery Partner)
Grants for improvements to existing district or communal heating projects in England and Wales that are operating sub-optimally. Revenue grants fund Optimisation Studies; capital grants part-fund installation of improvement measures.
Innovate UK
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £500,000 for a phase 1 project to establish the Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute (MMDI). This funding is from Innovate UK.
Innovate UK
Organisations can apply for a share up to £3 million inclusive of VAT, to develop and scale Engineering Biology platforms, products and services.
Innovate UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI), Innovate UK, Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.
Digital Catapult
Up to £75,000 Innovate UK grant funding for UK SMEs to develop digital twin solutions for real-world industry challenges in Maritime, Aerospace and Defence sectors, with mentoring and industry access over nine months.
UK Government, Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
The Depot Charging Scheme supports uptake of zero-emission HGVs, vans and coaches by part-funding the installation of charging infrastructure at fleet depots.
ABHI
A 12-month accelerator helping UK HealthTech companies with a validated solution and proven impact to enter the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Applications are open for the 2027 Accelerator.
eBay
A competition offering up to 20 grants of £10,000 to eBay sellers: young entrepreneurs aged 18 to 30 (Category A) or business sellers who employ a young person aged 18 to 24 (Category B).
EIT Culture & Creativity
Support for high-impact, close-to-market innovations in architecture, audio-visual media and fashion sectors, progressing from TRL 7 to full market deployment. Stage 1 provides €20,000 per project; stage 2 provides up to €900,000 per project (70% of eligible costs).
Social Investment Business
Grants and loans of £50,000 to £1.5 million for Black and Racially Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises in England, with grants up to 50% of the loan value.
Innovate UK, West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, RTC North
National business growth and scaling service giving one-to-one support from innovation and growth specialists and scaleup directors to ambitious small and medium-sized innovation-focused businesses.