Sunderland Business Support Fund
This project forms part of Sunderland’s Business Support Programme and is funded by the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority through its Integrated Settlement. This grant programme has been designed to drive economic growth by helping businesses to access external expertise to implement business growth and improvement plans.
Funding offer
The Sunderland Business Support Fund covers up to 40% of eligible business spend.
Grants are available to support projects costing between £3,000 and £6,000 (excluding VAT) – for more information on the type of projects we could support, click here.
Business eligibility
Your business may be eligible for funding if it’s a trading and growing SME based in the Sunderland City Council catchment area.
Project eligibility
You can use the grant for most types of business support where external expertise will help your business to grow or become more resilient.
Funding process
Accessing the Sunderland Business Support Fund is very straightforward – you could have a decision on your grant application within a few weeks.
Apply for a grant
We’ll need to know some details about your business, the project you’d like to fund with a North of Tyne Business Support Fund Grant and how it will help.
With hundreds of businesses having accessed grant funding, take a look at some of our video case studies:
“The Sunderland Business Support Fund allowed us to be able to transform our website, to be able to transform the vision that we’ve got for our business and to be able to showcase that to the best of its ability”
Louise Kennedy, Oculus HR, Sunderland
Delivered by NBSL, The Sunderland Business Support Fund forms part of Sunderland’s Business Support Programme and is funded by the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority through its Integrated Settlement.
North East Mayor Kim McGuinness heads the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority (North East MSA) serving an area of 2.2 million people including County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland. Sunderland’s Business Support Programme is funded by the North East Mayoral Strategic Authority through its Integrated Settlement. For more information visit www.northeast-ca.gov.uk.