Business funding

Grant scheme to fund special equipment, adaptations or support worker services to help people with disabilities access employment

The Accelerator project provides support to businesses across the East Midlands to help them start, sustain, grow and innovate.

Create Growth is a business support programme for the creative industries, funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The aim of the programme is to support businesses to become investment ready through a combination of workshops, peer support and mentoring.

Edge Investments, a leading creative industries investor

The first enterprise loans East Midlands is part of a suite of targeted, publicly funded products and services to help individuals start or grow a business

Funding between £1000-£18,000 is available for further training and skills development for crafts people of all ages who live and work permanently in the UK or who want to take on an apprentice.

Start-Up Loans is government funded scheme to provide advice, business loans and mentoring to startup businesses, backed by the British Business Bank.

UK Export Finance is the UK's official export credit agency. It provides government assistance to exporters and investors, principally in the form of insurance policies and guarantees on bank loans

Businesses and research organisations can apply to help develop innovations including to test the feasibility of ideas, research and develop it, and demonstrate it in a prototype.

Research and development (R&D) tax relief is a government scheme to reward companies that invest in research by either reducing a company's tax bill, or, for some small or medium sized companies, provide a cash sum.