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Where the funding is: open schemes by council area

Each council area is shaded by how many opportunities a business there can apply for, counting schemes for the area itself and for its wider region, but not national ones. Choose an area to see what is open to it.

Local and regional schemesEverything, national schemes tooAll typesGrantsLoans and guaranteesInvestmentSupport, advice and trainingCompetitions and awardsTax relief
Hartlepool: 50 opportunitiesMiddlesbrough: 49 opportunitiesRedcar and Cleveland: 51 opportunitiesStockton-on-Tees: 49 opportunitiesDarlington: 49 opportunitiesHalton: 33 opportunitiesWarrington: 15 opportunitiesBlackburn with Darwen: 22 opportunitiesBlackpool: 23 opportunitiesKingston upon Hull, City of: 25 opportunitiesEast Riding of Yorkshire: 24 opportunitiesNorth East Lincolnshire: 20 opportunitiesNorth Lincolnshire: 21 opportunitiesYork: 41 opportunitiesCounty Durham: 103 opportunitiesCheshire East: 15 opportunitiesCheshire West and Chester: 15 opportunitiesNorthumberland: 114 opportunitiesCumberland: 17 opportunitiesWestmorland and Furness: 16 opportunitiesNorth Yorkshire: 45 opportunitiesBurnley: 24 opportunitiesChorley: 23 opportunitiesFylde: 23 opportunitiesHyndburn: 24 opportunitiesLancaster: 23 opportunitiesPendle: 24 opportunitiesPreston: 24 opportunitiesRibble Valley: 23 opportunitiesRossendale: 23 opportunitiesSouth Ribble: 23 opportunitiesWest Lancashire: 23 opportunitiesWyre: 25 opportunitiesBolton: 23 opportunitiesBury: 23 opportunitiesManchester: 24 opportunitiesOldham: 24 opportunitiesRochdale: 24 opportunitiesSalford: 23 opportunitiesStockport: 23 opportunitiesTameside: 23 opportunitiesTrafford: 23 opportunitiesWigan: 23 opportunitiesKnowsley: 33 opportunitiesLiverpool: 35 opportunitiesSt. Helens: 33 opportunitiesSefton: 34 opportunitiesWirral: 33 opportunitiesDoncaster: 23 opportunitiesRotherham: 23 opportunitiesNewcastle upon Tyne: 114 opportunitiesNorth Tyneside: 111 opportunitiesSouth Tyneside: 93 opportunitiesSunderland: 106 opportunitiesBradford: 45 opportunitiesCalderdale: 43 opportunitiesKirklees: 43 opportunitiesLeeds: 44 opportunitiesWakefield: 44 opportunitiesGateshead: 99 opportunitiesBarnsley: 25 opportunitiesSheffield: 23 opportunities

Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.

Most local and regional opportunities

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1Newcastle upon Tyne114
  2. 2Northumberland114
  3. 3North Tyneside111
  4. 4Sunderland106
  5. 5County Durham103
  6. 6Gateshead99
  7. 7South Tyneside93
  8. 8Redcar and Cleveland51
  9. 9Hartlepool50
  10. 10Darlington49
  11. 11Middlesbrough49
  12. 12Stockton-on-Tees49
  13. 13Bradford45
  14. 14North Yorkshire45
  15. 15Leeds44
  16. 16Wakefield44
  17. 17Calderdale43
  18. 18Kirklees43
  19. 19York41
  20. 20Liverpool35
  21. 21Sefton34
  22. 22Halton33
  23. 23Knowsley33
  24. 24St Helens33
  25. 25Wirral33
  26. 26Barnsley25
  27. 27Hull25
  28. 28Wyre25
  29. 29Burnley24
  30. 30East Riding of Yorkshire24
  31. 31Hyndburn24
  32. 32Manchester24
  33. 33Oldham24
  34. 34Pendle24
  35. 35Preston24
  36. 36Rochdale24
  37. 37Blackpool23
  38. 38Bolton23
  39. 39Bury23
  40. 40Chorley23
  41. 41Doncaster23
  42. 42Fylde23
  43. 43Lancaster23
  44. 44Ribble Valley23
  45. 45Rossendale23
  46. 46Rotherham23
  47. 47Salford23
  48. 48Sheffield23
  49. 49South Ribble23
  50. 50Stockport23
  51. 51Tameside23
  52. 52Trafford23
  53. 53West Lancashire23
  54. 54Wigan23
  55. 55Blackburn with Darwen22
  56. 56North Lincolnshire21
  57. 57North East Lincolnshire20
  58. 58Cumberland17
  59. 59Westmorland and Furness16
  60. 60Cheshire East15
  61. 61Cheshire West and Chester15
  62. 62Warrington15

A Leeds business can apply for schemes for Leeds, for West Yorkshire and for Yorkshire, so each area counts all three. Schemes that do not say where they are open are left out.