Economic recovery plan: Reshape
Creating conditions to grow
- Investment and regeneration projects
- Future High Street Fund – Freshney Place Regeneration (PDF)
- GOV.UK Towns fund prospectus
- Greater Grimsby Town Deal and Grimsby Town Centre Masterplan
- UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF)
- Activation & Community Engagement Fund – launched on 9th November 2021, for delivery over a 3-year period, this is a local grant programme for community and local business-based initiatives which create diversification of activity within the town centre. Click on the link for full details and eligibility criteria.
SHIIP is a £42 million project to deliver major infrastructure investments, industrial sites and employment creation in North East Lincolnshire, UK.
Award winning mitigation land and a new link road connecting the ports of Immingham and Grimsby to unlock development land. Find out more on South Humber .
A Partnership has been formed between the Humber and Greater Lincolnshire LEP’s, Business Partners and Councils with an ambition to create a local Freeport to boost investment, trade and jobs.
The Humber Freeport Proposal has now been submitted and we believe the Humber has a compelling bid which will be genuinely transformational for North East Lincolnshire and the wider Humber area. Government are expected to make a decision on successful bids in Spring 2021.
- Consider a student to get you online via Grimsby Institute and University of Lincoln– Work based and Internship programmes
- Business support programmes to make businesses more profitable through the use of technology CDI Alliance
- Digital Boost – Free online B2B support and advice
- HEY Growth Hub – Business grants, advice and support for SME’s in the Humber (growmysme.co.uk)
- Humber Internships Programme
- ICT for Growth Programme – Boost your business growth with specialist digital support, grants and advice
Local
- Business centres and business units
- ORE Catapult O&M Centre of Excellence touchdown spaces to rent at their Port Office on Grimsby Docks – Email: [email protected]
- Business Hive
- ACAS Working from home
- CIPD Remote working top tips
North East Lincolnshire’s South Humber Industrial Investment Programme offers some of the UK’s lowest-cost large-scale enterprise zone sites for expanding industrial, manufacturing and logistics companies.
The South Humber enterprise zone comprises 189 hectares (467 acres) of developmental land across 6 sites, making it one of England’s largest industrial EZs.
- E-Factor Business – Dedicated business support for start-up businesses
- Business Hive
- University of Lincoln – Innovation & Productivity Programme for grants and support to help businesses grow and diversify. Productivity Programme
- LEP Growth Hub Advisers – Business Lincolnshire
- Entrepreneur Handbook
- Start Up Grants – Grow My SME
Create North East Lincolnshire is an umbrella brand for cultural activity in and around Grimsby, supported by Art Council England Place Partnership Fund, National Lottery Heritage Fund and UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Creative finance opportunities
- The Creative Industries – Finance
- Heritage Fund – We’re backing heritage sector to adapt and thrive again
- Arts Council – Project grants
- NELC Creativity Strategy
- Creative UK
- Creative England start-up loans
*Grimsby Creates has been superseded by ‘Create North East Lincolnshire’.
- Humber Marine and Renewables
- Zero Carbon Business networking group – contact CATCH
- Green Business Advice and Support at Business Lincolnshire
- ORE Grimsby Centre of Excellence for Offshore Operations and Maintenance
- Green Business Fund – Finished in 2019, but they have some good resources which may be useful
- Energy savings trust – Grants and loans
- UKRI Industrial decarbonisation – Clean growth
- Smarter Energy NEL – E-Factor Business