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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Future Data Services: Joining up the data service workforce
Apply for Future Data Services funding to bring together communities of practitioners to exchange knowledge, improve working practices and deliver better data services for researchers.
Biodiversa+ 2026 to 2027: novel ecosystems (BiodivFuture)
Allows UK-based researchers to collaborate with international partners and submit joint applications to the Biodiversa+ 2026 to 2027 joint funding opportunity for novel ecosystems.
Guidelines for Health Applications
Funding for UK projects focussed on healthcare delivery that directly benefit UK residents with limited access to essential healthcare. Accepts applications for permanent focus areas addressing acute conditions, as well as temporary focus areas covering physical and mental health.
Philip Henman Trust Grant
Grants for major UK-based charities concerned with long-term overseas development requiring partnership funding for projects lasting between three and five years.
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
The Boiler Upgrade Scheme (BUS) supports the decarbonisation of homes and small and medium non-domestic buildings in England and Wales. The scheme provides upfront capital grants of up to £7,500 to encourage property owners to replace existing fossil fuel heating with more efficient, low carbon heating systems including heat pumps and biomass boilers.
Youth Jobs Grant
The Youth Jobs Grant is part of the Youth Guarantee and provides financial support to employers in Great Britain to encourage the recruitment and training of young people aged 18-24 who are on Universal Credit and unemployed for 6 months.
Tree Health Pilot
The Tree Health Pilot (THP) scheme is testing different ways of slowing the spread of pests and diseases affecting trees in England. It supports owners and managers of trees in woodland or trees outside woodland to deal with tree health issues.
Community and Environment Fund (CEF) and Business and Local Economy Fund (BLEF)
This funding programme provides grants to local communities and economies that are disrupted by the construction of Phase One and Phase 2a of HS2 between London and Crewe.
International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences
Funding to visit international partners, initiate collaborations, prepare joint funding proposals, visit overseas facilities, or attend European consortia-building events for stays of up to one month.
Engineering Biology Programme: mission hubs
Apply for funding to pursue a flagship applied research and innovation programme aimed at harnessing engineering biology to address major industrial and societal challenges through a mission focus. Your programme must be co-developed and co-delivered with industry and demonstrate significant potential to deliver the expected outcomes.
Funding opportunity: Pre-announcement: Engineering Biology Programme: foundational technology hubs
Apply for funding to deliver a flagship interdisciplinary research programme that develops foundational engineering biology technologies, platforms and capabilities. Projects must tackle key bottlenecks in the design-build-test-learn cycle, to make engineering biology faster, more predictable and scalable, accelerating innovation and adoption across sectors.
Vinehill Trust Health Applications Guidelines
Funding for healthcare delivery projects directly benefiting UK residents, covering permanent focus areas like acute conditions as well as annual temporary focus areas across physical and mental health.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in East Midlands