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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, 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: 115 grantsMiddlesbrough: 115 grantsRedcar and Cleveland: 116 grantsStockton-on-Tees: 115 grantsDarlington: 115 grantsHalton: 109 grantsWarrington: 109 grantsBlackburn with Darwen: 109 grantsBlackpool: 109 grantsKingston upon Hull, City of: 113 grantsEast Riding of Yorkshire: 112 grantsNorth East Lincolnshire: 110 grantsNorth Lincolnshire: 110 grantsYork: 111 grantsCounty Durham: 118 grantsCheshire East: 109 grantsCheshire West and Chester: 109 grantsNorthumberland: 117 grantsCumberland: 109 grantsWestmorland and Furness: 110 grantsNorth Yorkshire: 111 grantsBurnley: 109 grantsChorley: 109 grantsFylde: 109 grantsHyndburn: 110 grantsLancaster: 109 grantsPendle: 110 grantsPreston: 110 grantsRibble Valley: 109 grantsRossendale: 109 grantsSouth Ribble: 109 grantsWest Lancashire: 109 grantsWyre: 110 grantsBolton: 109 grantsBury: 109 grantsManchester: 109 grantsOldham: 110 grantsRochdale: 109 grantsSalford: 109 grantsStockport: 109 grantsTameside: 109 grantsTrafford: 109 grantsWigan: 109 grantsKnowsley: 109 grantsLiverpool: 109 grantsSt. Helens: 109 grantsSefton: 109 grantsWirral: 109 grantsDoncaster: 110 grantsRotherham: 110 grantsNewcastle upon Tyne: 119 grantsNorth Tyneside: 117 grantsSouth Tyneside: 116 grantsSunderland: 120 grantsBradford: 112 grantsCalderdale: 110 grantsKirklees: 110 grantsLeeds: 110 grantsWakefield: 110 grantsGateshead: 117 grantsBarnsley: 110 grantsSheffield: 110 grants

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

Most grants

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1Sunderland120
  2. 2Newcastle upon Tyne119
  3. 3County Durham118
  4. 4Gateshead117
  5. 5North Tyneside117
  6. 6Northumberland117
  7. 7Redcar and Cleveland116
  8. 8South Tyneside116
  9. 9Darlington115
  10. 10Hartlepool115
  11. 11Middlesbrough115
  12. 12Stockton-on-Tees115
  13. 13Hull113
  14. 14Bradford112
  15. 15East Riding of Yorkshire112
  16. 16North Yorkshire111
  17. 17York111
  18. 18Barnsley110
  19. 19Calderdale110
  20. 20Doncaster110
  21. 21Hyndburn110
  22. 22Kirklees110
  23. 23Leeds110
  24. 24North East Lincolnshire110
  25. 25North Lincolnshire110
  26. 26Oldham110
  27. 27Pendle110
  28. 28Preston110
  29. 29Rotherham110
  30. 30Sheffield110
  31. 31Wakefield110
  32. 32Westmorland and Furness110
  33. 33Wyre110
  34. 34Blackburn with Darwen109
  35. 35Blackpool109
  36. 36Bolton109
  37. 37Burnley109
  38. 38Bury109
  39. 39Cheshire East109
  40. 40Cheshire West and Chester109
  41. 41Chorley109
  42. 42Cumberland109
  43. 43Fylde109
  44. 44Halton109
  45. 45Knowsley109
  46. 46Lancaster109
  47. 47Liverpool109
  48. 48Manchester109
  49. 49Ribble Valley109
  50. 50Rochdale109
  51. 51Rossendale109
  52. 52Salford109
  53. 53Sefton109
  54. 54South Ribble109
  55. 55St Helens109
  56. 56Stockport109
  57. 57Tameside109
  58. 58Trafford109
  59. 59Warrington109
  60. 60West Lancashire109
  61. 61Wigan109
  62. 62Wirral109

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.