Creative Industries Business Grants
The UK's creative industries are supported by a range of grant programmes from Arts Council England, Screen industries, and regional creative economy initiatives. These support everything from individual artists to major production companies.
Screen Industries
Film, TV, and games production benefit from dedicated funding including BFI support, Screen Scotland, and Creative Wales. Tax reliefs complement grant funding for production projects.
Arts Council Support
Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, and Arts Council of Wales provide funding for arts organisations, cultural projects, and creative businesses across the UK.
Creative Enterprise
Regional creative industry programmes support design agencies, music businesses, publishing, and advertising companies with growth and innovation funding.
UK Creative & Heritage Grants
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Northumberland Small Business Fund
A fully-funded support and funding service delivering a range of business support services to businesses, ambitious innovators, and creative thinkers across Northumberland, with a focus on unlocking barriers to growth, farm enterprise resilience, and food and drink sector growth.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
A Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) is a subsidised three-way partnership between a business, a high‑calibre graduate and an academic institution, providing a cost‑effective way for businesses to attract fresh talent and access university expertise to drive strategic innovation and growth.
High Street Business Support
A fully-funded business support programme providing tailored 1:1 guidance, workshops, and webinars to help retail, hospitality, and leisure businesses strengthen their financial resilience, improve digital presence, and attract more local customers.
Leadership for Growth
The Leadership for Growth programme is designed to develop the capabilities of aspiring managers and leaders within scale‑up potential SMEs across Liverpool City Region.
Great Ideas – York and North Yorkshire
A fully funded innovation support programme, with access to innovation grants of up to £60,000.
Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS) - UK
Grant contribution to pay towards upgrading business broadband to a high-speed capable connection.
Enterprise programme for young people - UK
The King's Trust helps young people aged 18 to 30 years who want to set up their own business in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
AD:VENTURE
The AD:VENTURE programme provides dedicated support to eligible young and new businesses with strong growth ambitions. The AD:VENTURE programme is targeted at people who are planning to start, or have started a new business with high growth potential, and have been trading for less than 3 years. To be eligible you must trade with other businesses (B2B)
Access to finance - Greater Manchester and Lancashire
Access to finance is a scheme for businesses who need help raising finance for growth.
I2F2 Inward Investment Facilitation Fund
The Inward Investment Facilitation Fund (I2F2) provides grant funding for projects new to the Liverpool city region (LCR) aimed at increasing employment and productivity in the LCR.
Innovation Sprint Programme
The Productivity & Innovation Centre (PIC) offers a fully-funded Innovation Sprint Programme designed to support the profitable growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through innovation. The centre's core focus is on driving product and service innovation, which is complemented by efforts to strip out inefficiencies within the business model and introduce modern business development processes. This support is funded by the UK Government via the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The programme has a proven track record, having supported over 300 SMEs, resulting in 186 new products and services being launched, and the creation of 664 new jobs. On average, SMEs who successfully complete the Innovation Sprint growth programme and fully implement their action plan report a profitability increase ranging from 28% to 45%. The Innovation Sprint Programme itself is delivered through 60 hours of intensive scale-up strategy development. This support includes four intensive online workshops delivered over four weeks, coupled with 1-to-1 facilitation by both academics and business experts. The programme incorporates market research, rich data collection for decision-making, and the application of world-class rapid innovation tools and frameworks. Businesses are required to have 1–4 of their key decision-makers participate. Upon completion, participants also gain access to follow-on opportunities to collaborate with Edge Hill University, its students, and the wider SME network.
DRIVEN - ESF High Level Skills programme
University of Derby understand that this can be an uncertain time to recruit, and to help ease this they are able to support Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SMEs with £1000 funding to recruit any individual that has graduated within the last 3 years. Grants and support with recruitment including:f ree advertising, job advert creation, job promotion, sifting, interview support. University of Derby understand that this can be an uncertain time to recruit, and to help ease this they are able to support Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire SMEs with £1000 funding to recruit any individual that has graduated within the last 3 years. Grants and support with recruitment including:free advertising, job advert creation, job promotion, sifting, interview support.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about UK creative & heritage grants