Business Grants in North East England
The North East offers business funding through the North East Combined Authority, local councils, and the regional Growth Hub. The region is investing heavily in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, and digital sectors.
North East Combined Authority
The newly formed North East Mayoral Combined Authority is developing business support programmes across the region. They focus on growth sectors and creating quality employment opportunities.
Newcastle and Gateshead
Newcastle and Gateshead councils provide business support including grants for SMEs, startups, and specific sectors. The area's universities create additional innovation funding opportunities.
Wider Region Support
Sunderland, Durham, Northumberland, and Teesside each have their own grant schemes. The region's focus on clean energy and offshore wind creates sector-specific funding opportunities.
North East Business Grants
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Expression of interest: Small-satellite missions sandpit
Apply to attend a sandpit to develop small satellite Earth observation mission concepts using innovative sensors and data streams enabled by other transversal technologies. Projects should deliver sovereign capability for national security and defence, societal benefit, and economic growth.
Investor Partnerships – Battery Innovation Programme
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners to support research and development and access capital investment needed to develop and commercialise innovations in battery technology.
Battery Innovation Programme: investor partnerships
UK registered small or medium sized businesses can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science
Apply for funding to strengthen conservation and heritage science infrastructure by building sustainable national capability, improving access to nationally significant facilities and addressing unmet user demand. Projects should expand collaboration with industry to accelerate technology development, commercialisation and knowledge exchange.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in North East