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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, national schemes included. Choose an area to see what is open to it.

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Hartlepool: 23 loans and guaranteesMiddlesbrough: 23 loans and guaranteesRedcar and Cleveland: 23 loans and guaranteesStockton-on-Tees: 23 loans and guaranteesDarlington: 22 loans and guaranteesHalton: 23 loans and guaranteesWarrington: 22 loans and guaranteesBlackburn with Darwen: 22 loans and guaranteesBlackpool: 22 loans and guaranteesKingston upon Hull, City of: 22 loans and guaranteesEast Riding of Yorkshire: 22 loans and guaranteesNorth East Lincolnshire: 21 loans and guaranteesNorth Lincolnshire: 22 loans and guaranteesYork: 21 loans and guaranteesCounty Durham: 25 loans and guaranteesCheshire East: 22 loans and guaranteesCheshire West and Chester: 22 loans and guaranteesNorthumberland: 23 loans and guaranteesCumberland: 23 loans and guaranteesWestmorland and Furness: 22 loans and guaranteesNorth Yorkshire: 21 loans and guaranteesBurnley: 23 loans and guaranteesChorley: 23 loans and guaranteesFylde: 23 loans and guaranteesHyndburn: 23 loans and guaranteesLancaster: 23 loans and guaranteesPendle: 23 loans and guaranteesPreston: 23 loans and guaranteesRibble Valley: 23 loans and guaranteesRossendale: 23 loans and guaranteesSouth Ribble: 23 loans and guaranteesWest Lancashire: 23 loans and guaranteesWyre: 23 loans and guaranteesBolton: 22 loans and guaranteesBury: 22 loans and guaranteesManchester: 22 loans and guaranteesOldham: 22 loans and guaranteesRochdale: 22 loans and guaranteesSalford: 22 loans and guaranteesStockport: 22 loans and guaranteesTameside: 22 loans and guaranteesTrafford: 22 loans and guaranteesWigan: 22 loans and guaranteesKnowsley: 23 loans and guaranteesLiverpool: 23 loans and guaranteesSt. Helens: 23 loans and guaranteesSefton: 23 loans and guaranteesWirral: 23 loans and guaranteesDoncaster: 22 loans and guaranteesRotherham: 22 loans and guaranteesNewcastle upon Tyne: 23 loans and guaranteesNorth Tyneside: 23 loans and guaranteesSouth Tyneside: 23 loans and guaranteesSunderland: 23 loans and guaranteesBradford: 22 loans and guaranteesCalderdale: 22 loans and guaranteesKirklees: 22 loans and guaranteesLeeds: 23 loans and guaranteesWakefield: 22 loans and guaranteesGateshead: 23 loans and guaranteesBarnsley: 22 loans and guaranteesSheffield: 22 loans and guarantees

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

Most loans and guarantees

All 62 council areas, most first.

  1. 1County Durham25
  2. 2Burnley23
  3. 3Chorley23
  4. 4Cumberland23
  5. 5Fylde23
  6. 6Gateshead23
  7. 7Halton23
  8. 8Hartlepool23
  9. 9Hyndburn23
  10. 10Knowsley23
  11. 11Lancaster23
  12. 12Leeds23
  13. 13Liverpool23
  14. 14Middlesbrough23
  15. 15Newcastle upon Tyne23
  16. 16North Tyneside23
  17. 17Northumberland23
  18. 18Pendle23
  19. 19Preston23
  20. 20Redcar and Cleveland23
  21. 21Ribble Valley23
  22. 22Rossendale23
  23. 23Sefton23
  24. 24South Ribble23
  25. 25South Tyneside23
  26. 26St Helens23
  27. 27Stockton-on-Tees23
  28. 28Sunderland23
  29. 29West Lancashire23
  30. 30Wirral23
  31. 31Wyre23
  32. 32Barnsley22
  33. 33Blackburn with Darwen22
  34. 34Blackpool22
  35. 35Bolton22
  36. 36Bradford22
  37. 37Bury22
  38. 38Calderdale22
  39. 39Cheshire East22
  40. 40Cheshire West and Chester22
  41. 41Darlington22
  42. 42Doncaster22
  43. 43East Riding of Yorkshire22
  44. 44Hull22
  45. 45Kirklees22
  46. 46Manchester22
  47. 47North Lincolnshire22
  48. 48Oldham22
  49. 49Rochdale22
  50. 50Rotherham22
  51. 51Salford22
  52. 52Sheffield22
  53. 53Stockport22
  54. 54Tameside22
  55. 55Trafford22
  56. 56Wakefield22
  57. 57Warrington22
  58. 58Westmorland and Furness22
  59. 59Wigan22
  60. 60North East Lincolnshire21
  61. 61North Yorkshire21
  62. 62York21

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.