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Business schemes available - 176

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From Student to First sale (FS2FS)

Financial support in the form of a £15,000 salary subvention to encourage graduates from the education sector into self-employment.

Invest Northern Ireland

Technical Development Incentive (TDI)

Up to £15,000 financial support towards developing new products, improving processes and testing/certification to satisfy requirements of export markets

Invest Northern Ireland

Management Knowledge Transfer Partnership (MKTP)

Management KTPs aim to enable transformational improvement by identifying key, strategic management-based initiatives to increase business effectiveness

Innovate UK, Invest Northern Ireland

Youth Entrepreneurship Programme

Free training, advice and support to young people to develop their skills and help them become future entrepreneurs.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

INTERREG North West Europe Programme – Support for Social Entrepreneurs (SuNSE)

Mentoring and workshop support to assist the start-up of new social economy enterprises as well as assist established social enterprises to grow and develop.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Invest in Health, Profit in Business

Support to equip businesses with a pro-active programme of activity that will help them to fulfil their obligations to support their employees' health and wellbeing.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Food and Drink Consumer Insights Team

A range of support initiatives to help Northern Ireland Food and Drink businesses to grow using market research, data analysis and consumer insights.

Invest Northern Ireland

SERC Fabrication Project

Opportunity for Lisburn and Castlereagh businesses to recruit highly trained, motivated and professional engineers from the South East Regional College.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Investment Programme

Businesses relocating or searching for new premises in the Lisburn Castlereagh area can tap into free support from the Council’s Investment Team.

Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Proof of Concept Grant Fund

Grants of up to £35,000 that support entrepreneurs at the earliest stage to get their business ideas off the ground by commercialising technology innovation

Techstart Ventures