UK regional funding guide
Greater Manchester business grants and support routes
Greater Manchester businesses should check their borough and the regional Business Growth Hub together. A Manchester city-only search can miss support delivered elsewhere in the city region.
Guide reviewed:
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Businesses, community enterprises and advisers planning an investment in Greater Manchester.
Make the first review more concrete
Identify the right local delivery body and establish the next evidence checks before preparing a funding application.
Review workflow
What FundingLens helps you do
Keep source facts, caveats and next actions together so your team can decide what deserves attention before application work starts.
Start with the Business Growth Hub's support finder and record the investment site's borough. Ask whether the offer is region-wide or funded for a specific council area; a registered office elsewhere may not settle project eligibility.
Salford Council signposts businesses to the regional support finder and finance routes. Use that as a discovery example, then go to the delivery body for current costs, contribution and application-stage evidence.
If an older page mentions the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, check the named delivery programme's current status. England's 2026 Local Growth Fund settlement is not a UK-wide replacement grant application and must not be applied to Scotland or Wales. Keep announcements, authority allocations and applicant offers separate.
Readiness checks
- Borough and actual investment site recorded.
- Regional support distinguished from council-only offers.
- Finance product identified as grant, loan or advice.
- Current scheme page saved with the date checked.
- Written approval obtained before expenditure where required.
Eligibility caveats
- This is a route-finding guide, not a claim that a grant is open today.
- Funding availability, delivery boundaries and deadlines can change.
- Confirm award conditions and subsidy treatment with the actual awarding body.
Source references
Council signposting to the Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub and finance routes.
Official sourceLocal Growth Fund (England)The 2026 settlement is for selected Mayoral Strategic Authorities; an allocation to an authority is not itself an open business grant.
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