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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Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund Round 5 Discovery C6
Organisations can apply for a share of up to £30 million exclusive of VAT, for collaborative Discovery Phase Projects that meet the round 5 challenges. This funding is from the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6 (AKT 6)
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of a £2.5 million fund to run collaborative innovation projects with businesses
Creative Industries Clusters round 2 (invite only)
Apply for funding to deliver a new Creative Industries Cluster as part of the second round of commissioning to address a clear challenge in a defined geographic region, sub-sector, or both, while focusing on creating new products, services, or experiences with strong commercial potential.
Regional Creatives Fund
A grant scheme providing funding and pro-bono support to broaden access to creative industry careers, build skills, and support underserved communities across the UK.
CfI: Earlier identification of UK children with SEN
Organisations can apply for a share of £2.5m inclusive of VAT to develop innovations that enable earlier, fairer, more reliable identification of special educational needs (SEN) in contexts where existing market solutions underperform or do not operate. This phase 1 competition focuses on developing, testing, and rolling out innovations that can be integrated into education settings for children and young people.
ADOPT facilitator support grant: round 10
Farming, growing or forestry businesses based in England can apply for a grant of £2,500, to engage an external project facilitator to support the development of a full ADOPT grant application.
Capacity building: clinical research training fellowship
A fellowship opportunity for registered healthcare professionals who are PhD graduates working outside of research to reacquire research skills, refresh their research momentum, and pursue a clinical academic research career within the Medical Research Council remit.
UK-Switzerland CR&D Round 3
Enhance UK and Swiss collaborations and capabilities in emerging technology fields (Semiconductors, Life Sciences, or Engineering Biology), resulting in the development and delivery of new innovations and applications across a broad range of sectors.
DRIVE35 innovation fund: collaborate three
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £20 million for late stage collaborative research and development projects supporting the UK’s transition to zero emission vehicles and a pathway to a net zero automotive industry.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
Funding opportunity for doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences. Builds on STFC's previous investment to provide students with skills and training for careers in academia or industry. Harmonised under the UK Research and Innovation Doctoral Focal Awards scheme.
computing resources on the STFC DiRAC HPC facility (RAC19)
Apply for computing resources on the STFC DiRAC High Performance Computing (HPC) facility: Resource Allocation Committee (RAC) 19th opportunity. DiRAC offers computing resources on four systems: Data Intensive Service at Cambridge, Data Intensive Service at Leicester, Extreme Scaling Service at Edinburgh, and Memory Intensive Service at Durham. Successful awards will begin on 1 April 2027. Short proposals can be for up to one year and thematic proposals can be for up to three years.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC
Apply for funding to establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre (IKC) focused on driving adoption of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) security by design technology. The aim is to build critical mass towards commercialisation of CHERI technologies.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in North East