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Where the funding is: open schemes by council area

Each council area is shaded by how many investment 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: 7 investmentMiddlesbrough: 7 investmentRedcar and Cleveland: 7 investmentStockton-on-Tees: 7 investmentDarlington: 7 investmentHalton: 5 investmentWarrington: 3 investmentBlackburn with Darwen: 3 investmentBlackpool: 3 investmentKingston upon Hull, City of: 3 investmentEast Riding of Yorkshire: 4 investmentNorth East Lincolnshire: 2 investmentNorth Lincolnshire: 4 investmentYork: 2 investmentCounty Durham: 6 investmentCheshire East: 3 investmentCheshire West and Chester: 3 investmentNorthumberland: 5 investmentCumberland: 4 investmentWestmorland and Furness: 3 investmentNorth Yorkshire: 3 investmentBurnley: 3 investmentChorley: 3 investmentFylde: 3 investmentHyndburn: 3 investmentLancaster: 3 investmentPendle: 3 investmentPreston: 3 investmentRibble Valley: 3 investmentRossendale: 3 investmentSouth Ribble: 3 investmentWest Lancashire: 3 investmentWyre: 3 investmentBolton: 4 investmentBury: 4 investmentManchester: 4 investmentOldham: 4 investmentRochdale: 4 investmentSalford: 4 investmentStockport: 4 investmentTameside: 4 investmentTrafford: 4 investmentWigan: 4 investmentKnowsley: 5 investmentLiverpool: 5 investmentSt. Helens: 5 investmentSefton: 5 investmentWirral: 5 investmentDoncaster: 4 investmentRotherham: 4 investmentNewcastle upon Tyne: 5 investmentNorth Tyneside: 5 investmentSouth Tyneside: 4 investmentSunderland: 5 investmentBradford: 4 investmentCalderdale: 4 investmentKirklees: 4 investmentLeeds: 4 investmentWakefield: 4 investmentGateshead: 4 investmentBarnsley: 4 investmentSheffield: 4 investment

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

Most local and regional investment

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1Darlington7
  2. 2Hartlepool7
  3. 3Middlesbrough7
  4. 4Redcar and Cleveland7
  5. 5Stockton-on-Tees7
  6. 6County Durham6
  7. 7Halton5
  8. 8Knowsley5
  9. 9Liverpool5
  10. 10Newcastle upon Tyne5
  11. 11North Tyneside5
  12. 12Northumberland5
  13. 13Sefton5
  14. 14St Helens5
  15. 15Sunderland5
  16. 16Wirral5
  17. 17Barnsley4
  18. 18Bolton4
  19. 19Bradford4
  20. 20Bury4
  21. 21Calderdale4
  22. 22Cumberland4
  23. 23Doncaster4
  24. 24East Riding of Yorkshire4
  25. 25Gateshead4
  26. 26Kirklees4
  27. 27Leeds4
  28. 28Manchester4
  29. 29North Lincolnshire4
  30. 30Oldham4
  31. 31Rochdale4
  32. 32Rotherham4
  33. 33Salford4
  34. 34Sheffield4
  35. 35South Tyneside4
  36. 36Stockport4
  37. 37Tameside4
  38. 38Trafford4
  39. 39Wakefield4
  40. 40Wigan4
  41. 41Blackburn with Darwen3
  42. 42Blackpool3
  43. 43Burnley3
  44. 44Cheshire East3
  45. 45Cheshire West and Chester3
  46. 46Chorley3
  47. 47Fylde3
  48. 48Hyndburn3
  49. 49Hull3
  50. 50Lancaster3
  51. 51North Yorkshire3
  52. 52Pendle3
  53. 53Preston3
  54. 54Ribble Valley3
  55. 55Rossendale3
  56. 56South Ribble3
  57. 57Warrington3
  58. 58West Lancashire3
  59. 59Westmorland and Furness3
  60. 60Wyre3
  61. 61North East Lincolnshire2
  62. 62York2

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.