Business Support Finder

This programme provides a comprehensive assessment of your business performance, helping you identify opportunities, address challenges, and enhance your team’s capabilities.

Enhance your leadership and management strategy with range of solutions from Invest NI and other organisations.

Programme helps to develop the skills, strategic focus, and relationships of top management teams.

Programme develops tailored strategic leadership skills for senior executives and site leads of companies.

Grant to help businesses and social enterprises in Antrim and Newtownabbey embrace digital tools and technology to boost productivity and competitiveness.

Financial support for e-business projects to help businesses increase innovation and productivity through the implementation of appropriate ICT

High-quality courses and resources for managing people, operations, green economy, IT, accountancy, and finance.

Collaborative programme to grow the manufacturing industry by addressing shared challenges through joint action.

This programme provides businesses with an industry-recognised accessibility assessment and accessible and inclusive tourism e-learning modules to strengthen their accessibility provision and market reach.

Access expert mentoring to accelerate business growth, ensure success and lead to higher productivity and development.

The Mid Ulster Employer Toolkit is a one-stop-shop, providing employers with tools and support for aiding with employment matters.

This programme signposts employers to workplace support programmes and grants available to support the employment of individuals with disability or long-term health considerations.

Funding and expert support for social entrepreneurs, including mentoring, sector-specific advice, and monthly networking sessions.

A mental health awareness programme for employees delivered at the place of work.

Tax relief for companies that produce exhibitions for museums and galleries.

Online learning platform specially developed to support the Northern Ireland tourism industry.

The National Lottery Awards for All Northern Ireland provides funding from £300 to £20,000 to support community-led projects for up to two years.

Funding to support key or anchor organisations that are central to the infrastructure of the new economy movement and have the potential to drive systemic change.

Technical expertise, training and advice specific to the needs of companies trading from and with Northern Ireland

Networking events, business forums, and connections to help Northern Ireland businesses collaborate, grow, and build strategic partnerships.

Access to loans from £10,000 to £125,000 for small businesses in Northern Ireland.

Business support scheme details on the value of rate relief, which properties qualify for rate relief and how to apply.

Support for businesses to improve leadership by appointing an experienced, independent Non-Executive Director (NED) to their company board.

This fund aims to provide trustees of charities with the opportunity to invest all or part of their funds with the benefit of expert supervision.

Independent production companies can access project development funding for film, television and interactive content.

Script development funding for individuals and companies to develop feature film and television drama scripts.

Film, television, and interactive content development funding available for slates of projects.

Independent support from a business mentor for farming families or individuals experiencing business stress or worry.

The Clothworkers' Foundation Open Grants Programme offers capital funding to UK not-for-profit organisations.

Support for employers by identifying five key ways to make your jobs more inclusive.

Operational excellence coaches will work with your business to make your workflows easier, better, faster, and cheaper.

Tax relief for businesses producing orchestral concerts.

Small grants programme for projects with a strong focus on improving cross-community and cross-border relationships.

Advice and guidance for Invest NI customers on human resource management.

Production funding in the form of a recoupable loan with profit participation or in limited circumstances a grant.

Assistance for Northern Ireland businesses looking for premises through a commercial property database and opportunity to buy or rent Invest NI serviced sites or buildings

Free service to help employers and employees through the process of redundancy.

Tax credit for businesses based on qualifying R&D costs incurred before 1 April 2024.

HMRC confirmation for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that an R&D tax relief claim will be accepted before officially making the claim

Tax relief for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with an accounting period that starts before 1 April 2024.

Business support scheme details on the value of rate relief, types of property that qualify for rate relief and how to apply.

Transfer useful business waste and unwanted materials with other businesses or organisations.

A digital resource hub to help businesses educate and support employees who do the daily commute or drive for their jobs.

Inclusive entrepreneurship support for overcoming barriers in starting and growing a business.

Funding up to £5 million for UK-registered organisations to grow secure, resilient software supply chains through Software Security Code of Practice adoption.

Tax relief for individual investors who buy new shares in your company.

Help for qualifying early-stage companies to avail of support to access Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and/or the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) advanced assurance.

Competition aimed at early and new start companies who want to raise equity - a maximum prize fund of €800,000 is available

Grants to assist with set up, programme and running costs of newly formed community/voluntary groups.

Free accredited courses delivered by local further and higher education providers that can help employers retrain and upskill their staff.