Business Grants in Yorkshire & Humber
Yorkshire and the Humber region offers business funding through West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire combined authorities, local councils, and the regional Growth Hub. Key sectors include advanced manufacturing, digital, and healthcare.
West Yorkshire Funding
The West Yorkshire Combined Authority runs business support programmes for Leeds, Bradford, and surrounding areas. The AD:VENTURE programme and other schemes support SME growth and innovation.
South Yorkshire Support
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority provides business grants and support across Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Barnsley. Programmes focus on growth, skills, and sector development.
Humber Region Grants
The Humber region including Hull and East Riding has its own business support through local councils and the LEP. Energy and offshore sectors receive particular attention given the region's strategic importance.
Yorkshire & Humber Business Grants
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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.
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.
Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute: Phase 1
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £500,000 for a phase 1 project to establish the Medicines Manufacturing Data Institute (MMDI).
Farming Innovation Programme: Small R&D Partnership Projects Round 5
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £13 million for small R&D partnership projects. This funding is from the industry led R&D Partnerships Fund, a part of the Defra Farming Innovation Programme.
Investor Partnerships – ACT and Semiconductors
UK registered SMEs can apply for grant funding alongside private investment from selected investor partners.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 - 2027 Round 3
UK registered academic institutions, RTOs or Catapults can apply for a share of up to £12.5 million to fund innovation projects with businesses. KTP projects are encouraged to be delivered within 24 months.
UKRI Translation: BBSRC Proof of Concept 2026
Funding to translate bioscience research into innovations such as products, services or solutions that generate real-world economic, societal, and environmental impact.
PATT travel grants for competitively awarded observation time 2026
Funding for travel and subsistence in support of competitively awarded science observation time at astronomy facilities available to the UK research community.
A guide for the commercialisation of Creative Industries Research
Apply for funding to transform the commercialisation of research in the creative industries. A university-led team will collaborate with investors, lawyers and founders to tackle early-stage barriers to commercialisation and develop a new sector-specific university commercialisation guide, with practical frameworks and best practice deal terms.
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