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Where the funding is: open schemes by council area

Each council area is shaded by how many loans and guarantees 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.

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Hartlepool: 6 loans and guaranteesMiddlesbrough: 6 loans and guaranteesRedcar and Cleveland: 6 loans and guaranteesStockton-on-Tees: 6 loans and guaranteesDarlington: 5 loans and guaranteesHalton: 6 loans and guaranteesWarrington: 5 loans and guaranteesBlackburn with Darwen: 5 loans and guaranteesBlackpool: 5 loans and guaranteesKingston upon Hull, City of: 5 loans and guaranteesEast Riding of Yorkshire: 5 loans and guaranteesNorth East Lincolnshire: 4 loans and guaranteesNorth Lincolnshire: 5 loans and guaranteesYork: 4 loans and guaranteesCounty Durham: 8 loans and guaranteesCheshire East: 5 loans and guaranteesCheshire West and Chester: 5 loans and guaranteesNorthumberland: 6 loans and guaranteesCumberland: 6 loans and guaranteesWestmorland and Furness: 5 loans and guaranteesNorth Yorkshire: 4 loans and guaranteesBurnley: 6 loans and guaranteesChorley: 6 loans and guaranteesFylde: 6 loans and guaranteesHyndburn: 6 loans and guaranteesLancaster: 6 loans and guaranteesPendle: 6 loans and guaranteesPreston: 6 loans and guaranteesRibble Valley: 6 loans and guaranteesRossendale: 6 loans and guaranteesSouth Ribble: 6 loans and guaranteesWest Lancashire: 6 loans and guaranteesWyre: 6 loans and guaranteesBolton: 5 loans and guaranteesBury: 5 loans and guaranteesManchester: 5 loans and guaranteesOldham: 5 loans and guaranteesRochdale: 5 loans and guaranteesSalford: 5 loans and guaranteesStockport: 5 loans and guaranteesTameside: 5 loans and guaranteesTrafford: 5 loans and guaranteesWigan: 5 loans and guaranteesKnowsley: 6 loans and guaranteesLiverpool: 6 loans and guaranteesSt. Helens: 6 loans and guaranteesSefton: 6 loans and guaranteesWirral: 6 loans and guaranteesDoncaster: 5 loans and guaranteesRotherham: 5 loans and guaranteesNewcastle upon Tyne: 6 loans and guaranteesNorth Tyneside: 6 loans and guaranteesSouth Tyneside: 6 loans and guaranteesSunderland: 6 loans and guaranteesBradford: 5 loans and guaranteesCalderdale: 5 loans and guaranteesKirklees: 5 loans and guaranteesLeeds: 6 loans and guaranteesWakefield: 5 loans and guaranteesGateshead: 6 loans and guaranteesBarnsley: 5 loans and guaranteesSheffield: 5 loans and guarantees

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

Most local and regional loans and guarantees

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1County Durham8
  2. 2Burnley6
  3. 3Chorley6
  4. 4Cumberland6
  5. 5Fylde6
  6. 6Gateshead6
  7. 7Halton6
  8. 8Hartlepool6
  9. 9Hyndburn6
  10. 10Knowsley6
  11. 11Lancaster6
  12. 12Leeds6
  13. 13Liverpool6
  14. 14Middlesbrough6
  15. 15Newcastle upon Tyne6
  16. 16North Tyneside6
  17. 17Northumberland6
  18. 18Pendle6
  19. 19Preston6
  20. 20Redcar and Cleveland6
  21. 21Ribble Valley6
  22. 22Rossendale6
  23. 23Sefton6
  24. 24South Ribble6
  25. 25South Tyneside6
  26. 26St Helens6
  27. 27Stockton-on-Tees6
  28. 28Sunderland6
  29. 29West Lancashire6
  30. 30Wirral6
  31. 31Wyre6
  32. 32Barnsley5
  33. 33Blackburn with Darwen5
  34. 34Blackpool5
  35. 35Bolton5
  36. 36Bradford5
  37. 37Bury5
  38. 38Calderdale5
  39. 39Cheshire East5
  40. 40Cheshire West and Chester5
  41. 41Darlington5
  42. 42Doncaster5
  43. 43East Riding of Yorkshire5
  44. 44Hull5
  45. 45Kirklees5
  46. 46Manchester5
  47. 47North Lincolnshire5
  48. 48Oldham5
  49. 49Rochdale5
  50. 50Rotherham5
  51. 51Salford5
  52. 52Sheffield5
  53. 53Stockport5
  54. 54Tameside5
  55. 55Trafford5
  56. 56Wakefield5
  57. 57Warrington5
  58. 58Westmorland and Furness5
  59. 59Wigan5
  60. 60North East Lincolnshire4
  61. 61North Yorkshire4
  62. 62York4

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.