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
Grimsby Creates is an umbrella brand for cultural activity in and around Grimsby.
Creative finance opportunities
- 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