Hospitality & Tourism Business Grants
The hospitality and tourism sector can access grants for business improvement, destination development, and recovery support. Local authorities, VisitEngland/Scotland/Wales, and regional tourism bodies provide funding opportunities.
Destination Development
Regional tourism bodies and councils fund destination improvement projects. These support attractions, accommodation providers, and visitor infrastructure development.
Business Improvement
Hospitality businesses can access grants for premises improvement, accessibility, and sustainability. These often come from local authorities or business improvement districts.
Skills & Training
The sector benefits from specific skills funding including apprenticeship support and training grants to address hospitality workforce challenges.
UK Tourism & Hospitality Grants
31 grants found
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.
CDC Enterprise Agency - Durham
Advice and support for new and established businesses.
Business Support Programme - Adur and Worthing
Support service for businesses in the districts of Adur and Worthing with free events, online learning, networking and mentoring programmes.
Business support - West Berkshire
Planning, marketing strategy, investment and general guidance for businesses in or looking to relocate to West Berkshire.
Business start-up grant scheme - Mansfield
Grant to fund new businesses in the Mansfield area.
Business Growth Grant Scheme - Mansfield
Grants for established businesses in Mansfield that can produce a growth plan leading to job creation.
Business Growth Fund
East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) is committed to supporting businesses looking for help to scale up and grow as the district emerges from the COVID-19 Pandemic. From 1 December 2021 business owners can apply for financial support from ECDC’s Business Growth Fund; funded by the Government’s Additional Restrictions Grant Scheme. ECDC welcomes applications for a one-off grant of up to £30,000. This grant is available to businesses and organisations trading within East Cambridgeshire who are seeking to take steps to recover from the impact of COVID-19, by accelerating growth and long-term sustainability. East Cambridgeshire District Council (ECDC) is committed to supporting businesses looking for help to scale up and grow as the district emerges from the COVID-19 Pandemic. ECDC want to help accelerate sustainable business growth and takes priority to businesses with applicants that have: - Suspended growth plans as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially within sectors not previously supported by other schemes - Ambition to rapidly develop ideas into commercially viable and sustainable growth in 2022 - Viable ‘market ready’ initiatives, financially backed by owners and other funders where needed - Ambition to recruit and train additional staff including new apprentices in 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about UK tourism & hospitality grants