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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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.
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.
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.
Focal award: EPSRC and MHCLG Fire Engineering Skills Hub
Funding for a skills hub to deliver high quality, cohort based doctoral training, and design of high-quality postgraduate level taught programmes in fire engineering.
EPSRC-Defra Reimagining Circularity: full stage
Funding to develop a NetworkPlus that builds new capacity, strengthens community, and enhances research to innovation capabilities focused on the circular economy in data and metrics, or textiles, using the 'Plus' element to accelerate impact.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about business grants in Yorkshire & Humber