Grants, loans, investment and support programmes for businesses in Leeds, Yorkshire and the North of England. Leeds and West Yorkshire come first. Pick your area to see only what is open to you.
Invest in Bradford
A grant for business property owners and tenants in Keighley to improve shop frontages within specified areas, offered through the Keighley Towns Fund.
Bradford Council
Grants to help businesses, sole traders and not-for-profit organisations switch to fully electric or other zero-emission heavy-duty or light-duty vehicles. Passenger cars, private hire vehicles and taxis are not eligible.
For the whole region, or for places in it outside West Yorkshire.
The Growth Company
Funded student or recent graduate internships to support a business's digitalisation journey.
HEY Business, Growth & Skills Hub
Grants of £5,000 to £250,000 and/or loans of £75,000 to typically up to £250,000 for established businesses in Hull and East Yorkshire investing in capital growth projects; applicants must show profitability and a viable, ready project.
Hull and East Yorkshire Business Support, Invest Hull
Grants of up to £500 towards start-up costs such as rent, equipment and training, for people starting their first business in Hull.
Hull and East Yorkshire Business Support, Invest Hull
Grants of up to 50% of project cost, to a maximum grant of £2,500, for eligible businesses in Hull and East Yorkshire towards costs such as external consultancy, exhibitions, accreditations, marketing and sales, and software.
Business Doncaster
Funded one-to-one advice and grants to help eligible Doncaster businesses cut energy use and carbon emissions through energy-saving improvements. Open to SMEs operating from commercial premises in Doncaster.
Enterprising Barnsley team within Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
A grant to help Doncaster-based SMEs improve productivity, adopt digital innovation and invest in sustainable growth through capital or revenue projects. Run by Business Doncaster as part of a South Yorkshire project.
Sheffield City Council
Dedicated support and a source of grant funding for eligible Sheffield businesses to reduce energy use, carbon emissions and energy costs. Includes one-to-one advice, a free energy survey and a Low Carbon Grant part-funding energy-saving improvements.
Sheffield City Council
Matched-funding grants and fully-funded Productivity Advisor support for small and medium-sized enterprises in Sheffield to become more productive or adopt digital technology. The business contributes 50% of project costs.
North Lincolnshire Council
North Lincolnshire Council funds apprenticeship places for local SMEs that do not pay the apprenticeship levy, and for larger businesses that have used all of their own levy. Applications are prioritised against the council's Economic Growth Plan criteria.
Businesses in York and North Yorkshire can access funding from levy-paying employers transferring their unused levy, to help cover apprenticeship training and assessment costs.
For the North East, the North West or the whole North of England.
Community Foundation North East, Point North, North East Mayoral Strategic Authority
A new rolling programme of grants of up to £7,500 for charities and grassroots organisations supporting residents experiencing financial hardship in the North East. Funds food provision, community transport, digital inclusion, repair and reuse, and community spaces.
North East Mayoral Strategic Authority
Funds ambitious cultural events across the North East, for cultural organisations, event producers, festivals, creative practitioners and community organisations. Shortlisted projects are invited to develop a full business case.
Hyndburn Borough Council
Start-up and growth grants for new and established businesses in Hyndburn to invest, diversify or grow. Start-ups can apply for up to £2,000 and existing businesses looking to grow for up to £5,000.
Community Foundation North East
Grants of up to £2,000 for individuals aged 18-30 in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland with businesses trading for less than two and a half years and turning over more than £500 per month.
Community Foundation North East
Grants of up to £500 for individuals aged 18-30 in Tyne & Wear and Northumberland starting a business with pre-revenue or less than £500 monthly turnover, trading less than two years.
Creative Central: NCL
Round 2 of a grant for skills development and business support in the creative industries, particularly for organisations based in the Creative Central NCL footprint in Newcastle.
North East Mayoral Strategic Authority, North East Growth Hub
Capital grants to help businesses in the North East automotive and EV supply chain invest in productivity, innovation and the transition to electrification. Backed by the Department for Business and Trade and delivered by the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
North East BIC
Business support and grants for social entrepreneurs in Sunderland to start, develop and grow social businesses.
Made Smarter, North East Growth Hub
Support for small and medium-sized manufacturers in the North East and Tees Valley to adopt digital technology, with a digital roadmap, workshops, grants for expert technical advice and for new software or equipment, and fully-funded Digital Interns.
Digital Pathfinders
Grant covering 50% of costs (up to £3,000) for Newcastle-based trading businesses to implement technology that increases business and COVID resilience.
UMi
A £3.5 million UK Shared Prosperity Fund programme supporting business growth in Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland and Sunderland.
SWEF
Grants of up to £500 for pre-revenue businesses or up to £2,000 for established businesses, for young people aged 18–30 living in County Durham or Tees Valley.