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.
For the North East, the North West or the whole North of England.
NBSL
Up to 12 hours of fully funded expert HR support for businesses with staff management challenges in recruitment, retention, development and HR processes.
Sunderland Software City
An accelerator and support programme for businesses working or seeking to work in the esports sector, including workshops and networking events.
Creative UK
A programme for high-growth creative businesses between seed and scaling stages, offering business support and help to access finance and investment.
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.
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.
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.
CoSTAR National Lab, CoSTAR
UK-based creative or technology companies can apply for R&D support to develop innovations in advanced production workflows and tools, including AI-powered pipelines, motion capture, and democratised production techniques.
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.
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.
Tech Nation
A cohort-based programme of mentorship, masterclasses, site visits and investor access for early-stage UK DeepTech founders at post-spin out and Series A stage. Runs twice a year with 10 to 15 companies per cohort over six months.
ESA BIC UK
Business incubation support for UK-registered companies less than 5 years old with a demonstrable connection to space technology or the space sector.
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.
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.
Innovate UK, Innovate UK Business Connect
UK organisations can join a delegation to Battery Innovation Days 2026 in Stockholm to build relationships and develop consortiums for Horizon Europe battery funding calls. Innovate UK covers flights and accommodation.
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.
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.