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Business schemes available - 232

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Go Succeed

Local council support to help potential entrepreneurs explore a business idea and established businesses to grow and scale

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council, Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Mid Ulster District Council, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Social Enterprise Thematic Programme

Support for social enterprises to elevate their skills through one-on-one mentoring and online workshops, focusing on fundraising, digital marketing, and social impact planning.

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council, Ards and North Down Borough Council, Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council, Belfast City Council, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Derry City and Strabane District Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council, Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Mid Ulster District Council, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Developing your Business Capabilities

Financial support is available to help develop your internal management and business capabilities

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

Sustainability Reports

Sustainability Reports give businesses an understanding of their environmental performance across a number of areas, such as raw materials, energy, carbon, packaging, biodiversity and waste

Invest Northern Ireland

Grant for R&D

R&D funding up to £50,000 for a new product idea or process that could help grow your business

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

Skills Growth for Large Enterprises and/or Foreign Direct Investors

Grant support up to a maximum of 50% for costs covering trainee wages, internal trainer, external trainer and travel and accommodation costs

Invest Northern Ireland

Business Information Centre

Free access to market research, company databases, and other business information to help local companies develop their markets, identify export opportunities and find new customers

Invest Northern Ireland

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