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.
Leeds City Council
Grants for one-off projects that connect with nature, promote active travel, nature recovery, and creative work in green and blue spaces. The first theme is Nature.
Digital Enterprise
Up to £10,000 grant (50% of project costs) for digital projects costing up to £25,000 to boost productivity and business growth for West Yorkshire SMEs.
Digital Enterprise
Up to £35,000 grant for digital transformation projects costing £25,000–£100,000, covering up to 50% of project costs for businesses in West Yorkshire.
For the whole region, or for places in it outside West Yorkshire.
Hull City Council Youth Enterprise and Micro Business Team, John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, Hull City Council
Small grants for aspiring young entrepreneurs in Hull, usually between £350 and £500, run by Hull City Council's Youth Enterprise and Micro Biz Team with the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. Successful candidates are encouraged to mentor future young entrepreneurs and promote enterprise in schools and colleges.
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Fund including Sector Activity programme, Spin-Out & Start-Up programme, Get Exporting programme, Great Ideas programme, and Get Funded programme.
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Revenue grants between £3,000 and £10,000 to help businesses break down financial barriers of entering overseas markets and increase international trading.
Enterprising Barnsley
Grants for SMEs in South Yorkshire to improve productivity and digital innovation through capital or revenue investment projects. The 26/27 funding is fully allocated and new applications are no longer accepted.
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Programme providing grants to support sector-specific business innovation in York and North Yorkshire.
For the North East, the North West or the whole North of England.
Innovate UK
Grants of up to £500,000 for UK registered micro and small businesses to develop adoptable and investable innovations in communication networks.
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.
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.
Building Digital UK
Eligible homes and businesses in rural areas can apply for up to £4,500 to cover the costs of a gigabit-capable broadband connection as part of a group project.
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.
Open to businesses across England or the UK.
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.
European Innovation Council
Grants and support for high-risk, demand-driven deep tech innovation with transformative potential, especially where there is extensive research but lack of commercial uptake.
Rural Payments Agency
The Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) aims to help farmers manage land in a way that improves food production and is more environmentally sustainable.
Building Digital UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Small vouchers of up to £4,500 each for residents and businesses in areas without Project Gigabit contracts or commercial coverage, to help them upgrade to gigabit-capable broadband connections.
ESA Business Applications
A non-competitive BASS Call for Proposals made up of three sub-calls supporting space-enabled services for resilience, safety, sustainability and security in the Arctic.
The Fore
The Fore's funding rounds for charities, with registration and applications run in set rounds. Registration for the Autumn 2026 round is closed.
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.
VisitBritain
Financial assistance to nationally-accredited Local Visitor Economy Partnerships (England) or regional Destination Management Organisations (Scotland and Wales) to deliver marketing activity in the United States.
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.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Innovate UK
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £13 million for small R&D partnership projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Defra Farming Innovation Programme.