UK regional funding guide
Scottish Highlands and Islands business grants and support routes
Highlands and Islands Enterprise is a starting point for business and community development enquiries in its area. Scottish support has its own providers and terms; an England capital scheme should not be assumed to apply.
Guide reviewed:
Teams deciding where to spend application time
Businesses, community enterprises and advisers planning an investment in Scottish Highlands and Islands.
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.
Use HIE's support information to establish geographical fit and discuss the investment before treating a support product as an available grant. Record the business or community enterprise, place-based need and planned benefits together.
For remote and island projects, show realistic procurement, transport, installation and delivery assumptions. Ask which costs are eligible and whether public support, advice or other finance is most appropriate; avoid inflating grant estimates with excluded delivery costs.
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
- HIE area and applicant route checked.
- Community and commercial outcomes distinguished.
- Island or remote delivery costs separately identified.
- 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
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