Business Grants in North West England
The North West offers extensive business funding through the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities, Lancashire LEP, and local councils. The region's strong manufacturing, digital, and life sciences sectors have dedicated support programmes.
Greater Manchester Funding
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Business Growth Hub provide grants and support for businesses across the 10 GM boroughs. Programmes focus on growth, innovation, skills, and the green economy transition.
Liverpool City Region Support
The Liverpool City Region Growth Hub offers business advice and can connect you with grant funding. The combined authority runs various programmes supporting sectors including manufacturing, digital, and visitor economy.
Lancashire and Cheshire Grants
Lancashire and Cheshire have their own grant programmes through local councils and the LEP. These often focus on rural business support, manufacturing, and creating local employment opportunities.
North West Business Grants
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Partner Awards 2026/27
Funding provided by Unlimited in partnership with regional organisations to support disabled artists in creating ambitious new work.
Design Generators round two
Apply for funding to combine design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to make positive contributions to the green transition.
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.
Future computing paradigms Network Plus
Opportunity to build a multidisciplinary Network Plus that will initiate UK collaboration in future computing paradigms and provide evidence-based recommendations for UKRI and government, shaping national research priorities. Project can last up to 60 months, comprising 18 months to map, benchmark and horizon scan, incorporating sociotechnical and socioeconomic analysis followed by a 42-month network phase.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in North West