Business Grants in the East Midlands
The East Midlands provides business funding through local councils, the regional Growth Hub, and various LEP programmes. The region has strengths in manufacturing, logistics, and food production.
D2N2 Growth Hub
The D2N2 Growth Hub covers Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, and Nottinghamshire. They provide free business support and can connect you with grant funding for growth and innovation projects.
Leicester and Leicestershire
Leicester City Council and the LLEP offer business support programmes. The area has particular strengths in textiles, space and satellite technology, and food manufacturing.
County Council Grants
Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Rutland each have county-level business support through their councils. Rural business grants are often available alongside more general SME support.
East Midlands Business Grants
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Discover Creative Careers Funding
Grants of up to £4,000 to deliver local activities that break down barriers to the creative industries and create opportunities for underserved young people in the community.
Wise Music Foundation Grant
Financial support for people experiencing hardship, distress and illness, with a focus on children, the homeless and people living in poverty, as well as supporting a broad range of domestic and international charitable causes.
British Industrial Competitiveness Scheme
A scheme that aims to reduce electricity costs by up to £40 per megawatt hour for eligible manufacturers in the growth sectors (the ‘IS-8’) and foundational manufacturing industries. It exempts eligible businesses from paying indirect costs of the renewables obligation, capacity market, and feed-in tariff.
UK-Germany Bilateral Collaborative R&D: Round 5
Innovate UK and BMWE will invest up to £2.4 million in business-led collaborative research and development projects focused on industrial research, specifically in Clean Energy, Life Sciences, or Engineering Biology. UK registered SMEs must collaborate with at least one German SME applying under the German ZIM programme.
Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) Winter
Grants to move viable public sector knowledge assets towards commercial readiness.
Attendance and engagement at UK sporting, cultural and heritage sites
Apply for funding to research the development of novel data-intensive approaches for capturing engagement data from unticketed cultural, heritage, and sporting events, activities and locations, demonstrated through a deployable tool in at least one Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) sector.
Funding opportunity: Long-term cultural and sporting events legacy
Apply for funding to research the long-term impact and legacy of major sporting and cultural events in the UK, focusing on running a live experimental evaluation of a major event that fills gaps in existing methodologies.
UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering
Apply for funding for ambitious and exploratory projects bringing together AI and domain expertise. Projects will have the potential to unlock new opportunities for applying artificial intelligence (AI) to important research challenges in priority science and engineering disciplines.
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: CR&D round 2
Invest support for the development and adoption of sustainable technologies for the manufacturing of medicines.
Growth Cohorts: next-gen low carbon concrete cohort entry round 2
UK registered businesses can apply to join a cohort of ambitious businesses to develop solutions to decarbonise concrete and access funding and sector specific support to develop and deliver innovation and growth plans.
Full ADOPT grant: round 10
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a share of up to £5 million for on-farm trial and demonstration projects, to improve adoption of new ideas or solutions in the agricultural sector. This is an Accelerating Development of Practices and Technologies (ADOPT) grant.
Engineering Biology Investor Partnerships round 1
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £8 million to develop engineering biology products and services with selected investor partners.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in East Midlands