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Business schemes available - 188

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Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP)

Help for innovative small or medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) to collaborate and explore global markets, accelerating business growth.

Innovate UK

Building Futures Programme

This programme helps women to turn their creative ideas into a small business.

Women in Business

Town Centre Shopfront Improvement Scheme

Funding to enhance the appearance of commercial areas in designated town centres.

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

Rural Shopfront (Minor Works) Scheme

Funding for eligible businesses to carry out minor alterations or repairs to their shopfronts

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Techstart Proof of Concept Grant Fund

A pre-commercial grant awarding fund, available on a competitive basis, that supports entrepreneurs in Northern Ireland exploring the viability and commercial potential of innovative concepts.

Techstart

Techstart Ventures equity finance

Venture capital equity funding for innovative early-stage technology companies.

Techstart Ventures

Extended Reality (XR) Hub

Support businesses in new creative technologies. Support development, upskilling, and general advice.

North West Regional College

Innovation-to-Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe)

The ICURe programme explores the commercial application and potential of UK research.

Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Innovate UK

Scaling the Edge

Fully funded eight-week programme helping existing small and medium-sized enterprises to accelerate their new product and process innovations through value proposition design, business model canvas design, business ideas testing, and market engagement.

Queen's University Belfast (QUB)

CEOs Connect

Exclusive peer-to-peer network supporting CEOs of high-growth potential innovation companies in Northern Ireland as they scale and grow.

Catalyst