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Grants

UK Shared Prosperity Fund business support grants

Status

Status not published

Highly variable by council. Many schemes open for short windows and close when the allocation is spent.

Open now
Amount
£50,000

Each local or combined authority designs its own scheme. Typical small business grants are GBP 500-10,000, with capital grants sometimes up to GBP 25,000-50,000, usually at 30-50% intervention.

You must co-fund 50%. Work out the cash you need

Funder

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government / local authorities

public · regional

Deadline: Open all year — Highly variable by council. Many schemes open for short windows and close when the allocation is spent.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

You fund 50% yourself.

This is de minimis aid. It counts against the €300,000 ceiling that applies to your company across a rolling three years in this member state (Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831). If a new award would take you over, Article 3(7) disqualifies that award in full rather than reducing it — so check your headroom before you apply, not after.

Who can apply

Awarded under Minimal Financial Assistance subsidy rules, so there is a rolling three-year cap across all such awards. Almost always paid in arrears against evidenced spend.

How to apply

  1. Find your local authority or combined authority growth hub page
  2. Check which UKSPF-funded business grant schemes are currently open
  3. Speak to a business adviser (often mandatory before applying)
  4. Submit the application with quotes for the proposed spend
  5. Claim in arrears against invoices

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · What is de minimis aid?

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-shared-prosperity-fund · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.gov.uk

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