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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£10 Million Hospitality Grant Scheme
A grant scheme providing funding to back entrepreneurs starting new hospitality ventures, bring vacant premises back into use, support training programmes for young people, and help rural and neighbourhood community venues such as pubs, restaurants, and cafes to adapt, grow, and diversify services.
Comic Relief Community Fund (England)
Provides grants to grassroots, community-led organisations in England to drive change in their local communities, drawing on the lived experience of beneficiaries. Focuses on tackling homelessness, cost of living concerns, early childhood development, and preventing violence against women and girls, refugees, or asylum seekers.
One Stop Community Partnership
A grant programme inviting local community groups operating within two miles of a One Stop store to apply for funding to support projects such as tackling food poverty, supporting vulnerable or elderly people, low-income families, youth sports, and environmental improvements.
Farmer Collaboration Fund
Supports farmers, land managers and growers to manage land productively and sustainably while funding the costs of running collaboration groups and accessing expert advice.
Farming Futures R&D fund: Automation and Robotics Round 2
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20 million to develop innovative solutions for automation and robotics in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
Connecting Culture Fund
Apply for funding to enhance research culture at your BBSRC strategically supported institutes. This invitation-only funding opportunity requires strategically funded institutes to lead or co-lead the application, while other eligible research organisations can be involved as project partners or collaborators.
Funding opportunity: Ultra long duration energy storage project development studies
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £3 million for project development studies to support the development of ultra long duration battery energy storage demonstrators in the UK.
Advanced manufacturing: measurement and sensing pilot
To support high potential businesses developing a technology, product or service in measurement, instrumentation or sensing for UK manufacturing.
Financial Futures Fund
A grant fund that works in partnership with organisations to improve financial resilience and fund long-term solutions that help people feel more secure, confident, and in control of their financial future.
EPSRC Strategic Infrastructure 2026 (invite only)
Apply for funding to purchase strategic infrastructure (equipment, resources or both). The funding seeks to improve UK scientific capability and enable cutting-edge research that aligns with national priorities, including those within the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) strategy and EPSRC Strategic Delivery Plan.
Enterprise Nation Next Generation Grant
A grant giving an aspiring young entrepreneur aged between 18 and 24 the opportunity to turn their business dream into reality with grant funding and mentoring sessions.
Hospitality Support Fund - Round 1 (2026–27)
Grant funding for organisations that support UK hospitality, aiming to support employment, business resilience, thriving local places, and sustainable growth across the sector.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in North East