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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, 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: 15 investmentMiddlesbrough: 15 investmentRedcar and Cleveland: 15 investmentStockton-on-Tees: 15 investmentDarlington: 15 investmentHalton: 13 investmentWarrington: 11 investmentBlackburn with Darwen: 11 investmentBlackpool: 11 investmentKingston upon Hull, City of: 11 investmentEast Riding of Yorkshire: 12 investmentNorth East Lincolnshire: 10 investmentNorth Lincolnshire: 12 investmentYork: 10 investmentCounty Durham: 14 investmentCheshire East: 11 investmentCheshire West and Chester: 11 investmentNorthumberland: 13 investmentCumberland: 12 investmentWestmorland and Furness: 11 investmentNorth Yorkshire: 11 investmentBurnley: 11 investmentChorley: 11 investmentFylde: 11 investmentHyndburn: 11 investmentLancaster: 11 investmentPendle: 11 investmentPreston: 11 investmentRibble Valley: 11 investmentRossendale: 11 investmentSouth Ribble: 11 investmentWest Lancashire: 11 investmentWyre: 11 investmentBolton: 12 investmentBury: 12 investmentManchester: 12 investmentOldham: 12 investmentRochdale: 12 investmentSalford: 12 investmentStockport: 12 investmentTameside: 12 investmentTrafford: 12 investmentWigan: 12 investmentKnowsley: 13 investmentLiverpool: 13 investmentSt. Helens: 13 investmentSefton: 13 investmentWirral: 13 investmentDoncaster: 12 investmentRotherham: 12 investmentNewcastle upon Tyne: 13 investmentNorth Tyneside: 13 investmentSouth Tyneside: 12 investmentSunderland: 13 investmentBradford: 12 investmentCalderdale: 12 investmentKirklees: 12 investmentLeeds: 12 investmentWakefield: 12 investmentGateshead: 12 investmentBarnsley: 12 investmentSheffield: 12 investment

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

Most investment

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1Darlington15
  2. 2Hartlepool15
  3. 3Middlesbrough15
  4. 4Redcar and Cleveland15
  5. 5Stockton-on-Tees15
  6. 6County Durham14
  7. 7Halton13
  8. 8Knowsley13
  9. 9Liverpool13
  10. 10Newcastle upon Tyne13
  11. 11North Tyneside13
  12. 12Northumberland13
  13. 13Sefton13
  14. 14St Helens13
  15. 15Sunderland13
  16. 16Wirral13
  17. 17Barnsley12
  18. 18Bolton12
  19. 19Bradford12
  20. 20Bury12
  21. 21Calderdale12
  22. 22Cumberland12
  23. 23Doncaster12
  24. 24East Riding of Yorkshire12
  25. 25Gateshead12
  26. 26Kirklees12
  27. 27Leeds12
  28. 28Manchester12
  29. 29North Lincolnshire12
  30. 30Oldham12
  31. 31Rochdale12
  32. 32Rotherham12
  33. 33Salford12
  34. 34Sheffield12
  35. 35South Tyneside12
  36. 36Stockport12
  37. 37Tameside12
  38. 38Trafford12
  39. 39Wakefield12
  40. 40Wigan12
  41. 41Blackburn with Darwen11
  42. 42Blackpool11
  43. 43Burnley11
  44. 44Cheshire East11
  45. 45Cheshire West and Chester11
  46. 46Chorley11
  47. 47Fylde11
  48. 48Hyndburn11
  49. 49Hull11
  50. 50Lancaster11
  51. 51North Yorkshire11
  52. 52Pendle11
  53. 53Preston11
  54. 54Ribble Valley11
  55. 55Rossendale11
  56. 56South Ribble11
  57. 57Warrington11
  58. 58West Lancashire11
  59. 59Westmorland and Furness11
  60. 60Wyre11
  61. 61North East Lincolnshire10
  62. 62York10

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.