Business Grants in the West Midlands
The West Midlands offers strong business support through the West Midlands Combined Authority, local councils, and the regional Growth Hub. The region's automotive, advanced manufacturing, and professional services sectors are particular strengths.
West Midlands Combined Authority
WMCA runs business support programmes across the seven metropolitan districts. Their schemes support business growth, innovation, skills development, and the transition to net zero.
Birmingham Business Support
Birmingham City Council and partners provide various grant schemes for city businesses. Enterprise zones and the city's university partnerships create additional funding opportunities.
Wider Region Grants
Surrounding areas including Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and Shropshire have their own grant programmes through local councils and the LEP structure.
West Midlands Business Grants
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Let's Celebrate Towns 2026
A nationwide competition recognising communities driving stronger, more vibrant local economies across the UK, offering grant funding for winning towns to put toward a community project or initiative.
Digital Twin Industry Challenge Led Accelerator
Nine-month accelerator programme for UK technology SMEs to develop digital twin solutions for industry challenges in maritime, aerospace, and defence sectors.
Trust and confidence in policing: Research & Innovation Consortium
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing. The consortium will develop methods to capture the views of the wider community, underrepresented groups, groups who are a priority for policing and their partners, with particular focus on the voices of under-18s and victims and survivors of violence against women and girls.
Funding opportunity: High performance compute resources for EPSRC communities
Apply for funding to provide high-performance compute resource for engineering and physical sciences research communities. EPSRC will invest in compute resources that deliver either CPU resources that meet an identified need of EPSRC compute user communities or enable the EPSRC community to fully exploit GPU architectures.
Pre-announcement: Trust and confidence in policing: R&I Consortium
Apply for funding to develop and test dynamic tools and approaches to measure public trust and confidence in policing. The consortium will develop methods to capture the views of the wider community, underrepresented groups, and groups who are a priority for policing and their partners, with a particular focus on the voices of under-18s and victims and survivors of violence against women and girls.
National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million for collaborative industrial research to speed the translation of advanced materials innovations in three prioritised high growth themes and one strategic opportunity theme.
Funding opportunity: Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis
Innovate UK, on behalf of the OLS Cancer Healthcare Goals programme, will invest up to £25.4 million to support the clinical validation and evaluation of early cancer diagnostic technologies and devices.
Funding opportunity: CoSTAR Showcase Labs: Createch infrastructure and commercialisation
Join the Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national research and development (R&D) infrastructure for the creative sector to reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption, improve commercialisation support, and drive scale up and investment.
Funding opportunity: CoSTAR Satellite Labs: Accessible creative R&D infrastructure
Join the Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national research and development (R&D) infrastructure for the creative sector to reduce barriers to creative businesses’ technology adoption, improve commercialisation support, and drive scale up and investment.
Pre-announcement: Expanding access to creative sector R&D infrastructure
Join the convergent screen technologies and performance in realtime (CoSTAR) Network and host national R&D infrastructure for the creative sector. Funding aims to reduce barriers to creative businesses' technology adoption, improve commercialisation support for creative technology businesses, and drive scale up and investment.
Up & Running Grants 2026
Grant scheme supporting young entrepreneurs and businesses investing in the next generation, aiming to empower emerging talent shaping the UK's future.
Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative
Apply for an Academic and Industry Partnership award as part of the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative’s (FGx) Innovation and Collaboration fund. The awards will enable the development of links between industrial partners and the FGx. These awards can be used to support feasibility, pilot or initial studies to provide preliminary experiments to explore ideas and generate initial data which could support the development of competitive collaborative grant proposals for longer term projects.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in West Midlands