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Where the funding is: open schemes by council area

Each council area is shaded by how many competitions and awards 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: 2 competitions and awardsMiddlesbrough: 2 competitions and awardsRedcar and Cleveland: 2 competitions and awardsStockton-on-Tees: 2 competitions and awardsDarlington: 2 competitions and awardsHalton: 0 competitions and awardsWarrington: 0 competitions and awardsBlackburn with Darwen: 0 competitions and awardsBlackpool: 0 competitions and awardsKingston upon Hull, City of: 0 competitions and awardsEast Riding of Yorkshire: 0 competitions and awardsNorth East Lincolnshire: 0 competitions and awardsNorth Lincolnshire: 0 competitions and awardsYork: 0 competitions and awardsCounty Durham: 2 competitions and awardsCheshire East: 0 competitions and awardsCheshire West and Chester: 0 competitions and awardsNorthumberland: 2 competitions and awardsCumberland: 0 competitions and awardsWestmorland and Furness: 0 competitions and awardsNorth Yorkshire: 0 competitions and awardsBurnley: 0 competitions and awardsChorley: 0 competitions and awardsFylde: 0 competitions and awardsHyndburn: 0 competitions and awardsLancaster: 0 competitions and awardsPendle: 0 competitions and awardsPreston: 0 competitions and awardsRibble Valley: 0 competitions and awardsRossendale: 0 competitions and awardsSouth Ribble: 0 competitions and awardsWest Lancashire: 0 competitions and awardsWyre: 0 competitions and awardsBolton: 0 competitions and awardsBury: 0 competitions and awardsManchester: 0 competitions and awardsOldham: 0 competitions and awardsRochdale: 0 competitions and awardsSalford: 0 competitions and awardsStockport: 0 competitions and awardsTameside: 0 competitions and awardsTrafford: 0 competitions and awardsWigan: 0 competitions and awardsKnowsley: 0 competitions and awardsLiverpool: 0 competitions and awardsSt. Helens: 0 competitions and awardsSefton: 0 competitions and awardsWirral: 0 competitions and awardsDoncaster: 0 competitions and awardsRotherham: 0 competitions and awardsNewcastle upon Tyne: 2 competitions and awardsNorth Tyneside: 2 competitions and awardsSouth Tyneside: 2 competitions and awardsSunderland: 2 competitions and awardsBradford: 0 competitions and awardsCalderdale: 0 competitions and awardsKirklees: 0 competitions and awardsLeeds: 0 competitions and awardsWakefield: 0 competitions and awardsGateshead: 2 competitions and awardsBarnsley: 0 competitions and awardsSheffield: 0 competitions and awards

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

Most local and regional competitions and awards

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1County Durham2
  2. 2Darlington2
  3. 3Gateshead2
  4. 4Hartlepool2
  5. 5Middlesbrough2
  6. 6Newcastle upon Tyne2
  7. 7North Tyneside2
  8. 8Northumberland2
  9. 9Redcar and Cleveland2
  10. 10South Tyneside2
  11. 11Stockton-on-Tees2
  12. 12Sunderland2
  13. 13Barnsley0
  14. 14Blackburn with Darwen0
  15. 15Blackpool0
  16. 16Bolton0
  17. 17Bradford0
  18. 18Burnley0
  19. 19Bury0
  20. 20Calderdale0
  21. 21Cheshire East0
  22. 22Cheshire West and Chester0
  23. 23Chorley0
  24. 24Cumberland0
  25. 25Doncaster0
  26. 26East Riding of Yorkshire0
  27. 27Fylde0
  28. 28Halton0
  29. 29Hyndburn0
  30. 30Hull0
  31. 31Kirklees0
  32. 32Knowsley0
  33. 33Lancaster0
  34. 34Leeds0
  35. 35Liverpool0
  36. 36Manchester0
  37. 37North East Lincolnshire0
  38. 38North Lincolnshire0
  39. 39North Yorkshire0
  40. 40Oldham0
  41. 41Pendle0
  42. 42Preston0
  43. 43Ribble Valley0
  44. 44Rochdale0
  45. 45Rossendale0
  46. 46Rotherham0
  47. 47Salford0
  48. 48Sefton0
  49. 49Sheffield0
  50. 50South Ribble0
  51. 51St Helens0
  52. 52Stockport0
  53. 53Tameside0
  54. 54Trafford0
  55. 55Wakefield0
  56. 56Warrington0
  57. 57West Lancashire0
  58. 58Westmorland and Furness0
  59. 59Wigan0
  60. 60Wirral0
  61. 61Wyre0
  62. 62York0

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.