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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, national schemes included. 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: 25 competitions and awardsMiddlesbrough: 25 competitions and awardsRedcar and Cleveland: 25 competitions and awardsStockton-on-Tees: 25 competitions and awardsDarlington: 25 competitions and awardsHalton: 23 competitions and awardsWarrington: 23 competitions and awardsBlackburn with Darwen: 23 competitions and awardsBlackpool: 23 competitions and awardsKingston upon Hull, City of: 23 competitions and awardsEast Riding of Yorkshire: 23 competitions and awardsNorth East Lincolnshire: 23 competitions and awardsNorth Lincolnshire: 23 competitions and awardsYork: 23 competitions and awardsCounty Durham: 25 competitions and awardsCheshire East: 23 competitions and awardsCheshire West and Chester: 23 competitions and awardsNorthumberland: 25 competitions and awardsCumberland: 23 competitions and awardsWestmorland and Furness: 23 competitions and awardsNorth Yorkshire: 23 competitions and awardsBurnley: 23 competitions and awardsChorley: 23 competitions and awardsFylde: 23 competitions and awardsHyndburn: 23 competitions and awardsLancaster: 23 competitions and awardsPendle: 23 competitions and awardsPreston: 23 competitions and awardsRibble Valley: 23 competitions and awardsRossendale: 23 competitions and awardsSouth Ribble: 23 competitions and awardsWest Lancashire: 23 competitions and awardsWyre: 23 competitions and awardsBolton: 23 competitions and awardsBury: 23 competitions and awardsManchester: 23 competitions and awardsOldham: 23 competitions and awardsRochdale: 23 competitions and awardsSalford: 23 competitions and awardsStockport: 23 competitions and awardsTameside: 23 competitions and awardsTrafford: 23 competitions and awardsWigan: 23 competitions and awardsKnowsley: 23 competitions and awardsLiverpool: 23 competitions and awardsSt. Helens: 23 competitions and awardsSefton: 23 competitions and awardsWirral: 23 competitions and awardsDoncaster: 23 competitions and awardsRotherham: 23 competitions and awardsNewcastle upon Tyne: 25 competitions and awardsNorth Tyneside: 25 competitions and awardsSouth Tyneside: 25 competitions and awardsSunderland: 25 competitions and awardsBradford: 23 competitions and awardsCalderdale: 23 competitions and awardsKirklees: 23 competitions and awardsLeeds: 23 competitions and awardsWakefield: 23 competitions and awardsGateshead: 25 competitions and awardsBarnsley: 23 competitions and awardsSheffield: 23 competitions and awards

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

Most competitions and awards

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1County Durham25
  2. 2Darlington25
  3. 3Gateshead25
  4. 4Hartlepool25
  5. 5Middlesbrough25
  6. 6Newcastle upon Tyne25
  7. 7North Tyneside25
  8. 8Northumberland25
  9. 9Redcar and Cleveland25
  10. 10South Tyneside25
  11. 11Stockton-on-Tees25
  12. 12Sunderland25
  13. 13Barnsley23
  14. 14Blackburn with Darwen23
  15. 15Blackpool23
  16. 16Bolton23
  17. 17Bradford23
  18. 18Burnley23
  19. 19Bury23
  20. 20Calderdale23
  21. 21Cheshire East23
  22. 22Cheshire West and Chester23
  23. 23Chorley23
  24. 24Cumberland23
  25. 25Doncaster23
  26. 26East Riding of Yorkshire23
  27. 27Fylde23
  28. 28Halton23
  29. 29Hyndburn23
  30. 30Hull23
  31. 31Kirklees23
  32. 32Knowsley23
  33. 33Lancaster23
  34. 34Leeds23
  35. 35Liverpool23
  36. 36Manchester23
  37. 37North East Lincolnshire23
  38. 38North Lincolnshire23
  39. 39North Yorkshire23
  40. 40Oldham23
  41. 41Pendle23
  42. 42Preston23
  43. 43Ribble Valley23
  44. 44Rochdale23
  45. 45Rossendale23
  46. 46Rotherham23
  47. 47Salford23
  48. 48Sefton23
  49. 49Sheffield23
  50. 50South Ribble23
  51. 51St Helens23
  52. 52Stockport23
  53. 53Tameside23
  54. 54Trafford23
  55. 55Wakefield23
  56. 56Warrington23
  57. 57West Lancashire23
  58. 58Westmorland and Furness23
  59. 59Wigan23
  60. 60Wirral23
  61. 61Wyre23
  62. 62York23

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.