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Where the funding is: open schemes by council area

Each council area is shaded by how many grants 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: 6 grantsMiddlesbrough: 6 grantsRedcar and Cleveland: 7 grantsStockton-on-Tees: 6 grantsDarlington: 6 grantsHalton: 0 grantsWarrington: 0 grantsBlackburn with Darwen: 0 grantsBlackpool: 0 grantsKingston upon Hull, City of: 4 grantsEast Riding of Yorkshire: 3 grantsNorth East Lincolnshire: 1 grantsNorth Lincolnshire: 1 grantsYork: 2 grantsCounty Durham: 9 grantsCheshire East: 0 grantsCheshire West and Chester: 0 grantsNorthumberland: 8 grantsCumberland: 0 grantsWestmorland and Furness: 1 grantsNorth Yorkshire: 2 grantsBurnley: 0 grantsChorley: 0 grantsFylde: 0 grantsHyndburn: 1 grantsLancaster: 0 grantsPendle: 1 grantsPreston: 1 grantsRibble Valley: 0 grantsRossendale: 0 grantsSouth Ribble: 0 grantsWest Lancashire: 0 grantsWyre: 1 grantsBolton: 0 grantsBury: 0 grantsManchester: 0 grantsOldham: 1 grantsRochdale: 0 grantsSalford: 0 grantsStockport: 0 grantsTameside: 0 grantsTrafford: 0 grantsWigan: 0 grantsKnowsley: 0 grantsLiverpool: 0 grantsSt. Helens: 0 grantsSefton: 0 grantsWirral: 0 grantsDoncaster: 1 grantsRotherham: 1 grantsNewcastle upon Tyne: 10 grantsNorth Tyneside: 8 grantsSouth Tyneside: 7 grantsSunderland: 11 grantsBradford: 3 grantsCalderdale: 1 grantsKirklees: 1 grantsLeeds: 1 grantsWakefield: 1 grantsGateshead: 8 grantsBarnsley: 1 grantsSheffield: 1 grants

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

Most local and regional grants

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1Sunderland11
  2. 2Newcastle upon Tyne10
  3. 3County Durham9
  4. 4Gateshead8
  5. 5North Tyneside8
  6. 6Northumberland8
  7. 7Redcar and Cleveland7
  8. 8South Tyneside7
  9. 9Darlington6
  10. 10Hartlepool6
  11. 11Middlesbrough6
  12. 12Stockton-on-Tees6
  13. 13Hull4
  14. 14Bradford3
  15. 15East Riding of Yorkshire3
  16. 16North Yorkshire2
  17. 17York2
  18. 18Barnsley1
  19. 19Calderdale1
  20. 20Doncaster1
  21. 21Hyndburn1
  22. 22Kirklees1
  23. 23Leeds1
  24. 24North East Lincolnshire1
  25. 25North Lincolnshire1
  26. 26Oldham1
  27. 27Pendle1
  28. 28Preston1
  29. 29Rotherham1
  30. 30Sheffield1
  31. 31Wakefield1
  32. 32Westmorland and Furness1
  33. 33Wyre1
  34. 34Blackburn with Darwen0
  35. 35Blackpool0
  36. 36Bolton0
  37. 37Burnley0
  38. 38Bury0
  39. 39Cheshire East0
  40. 40Cheshire West and Chester0
  41. 41Chorley0
  42. 42Cumberland0
  43. 43Fylde0
  44. 44Halton0
  45. 45Knowsley0
  46. 46Lancaster0
  47. 47Liverpool0
  48. 48Manchester0
  49. 49Ribble Valley0
  50. 50Rochdale0
  51. 51Rossendale0
  52. 52Salford0
  53. 53Sefton0
  54. 54South Ribble0
  55. 55St Helens0
  56. 56Stockport0
  57. 57Tameside0
  58. 58Trafford0
  59. 59Warrington0
  60. 60West Lancashire0
  61. 61Wigan0
  62. 62Wirral0

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.