Support Network

As experts in business, they offer members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise, support and a powerful voice in government. Their core mission is to help smaller businesses achieve their ambitions.

The LEP works with Government to improve the economic climate across Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire. The Business Lincolnshire Growth Hub is just one of the services available to help businesses in the area to flourish and grow.  And the £9 million Invest and Grow Fund is a rolling infrastructure fund designed to kick start stalled housing and commercial developments.

The Green Port Hull vision was set up to establish Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire as a world class centre for renewable energy, creating wealth and employment for the region.Through the Regional Growth Fund, significant funding has been secured for skills & employment, business support, and research and development to ensure that local people and business gain maximum benefit from the renewable energy sector. These attributes are the reason that Siemens has chosen Hull as the location to build its world-class offshore wind turbine blade manufacturing, assembly and servicing facilities that form the centrepiece of Green Port Hull.

The Enterprise Agency is BIS registered and a member of the National Enterprise Network. Operating from Grimsby’s premier business centre, The Enterprise Village, the Enterprise Agency offers FREE (unless otherwise stated) and impartial business advice and support.

The GRP is a local group which has formed in order to promote local companies to the rapidly increasing offshore wind activity in the area.

Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce provides its members with a range of business services including training, networking events and promotion.

HullBID is a not for profit organisation that exists to help businesses in the city sustainably grow and progress. Working in partnership with BID member businesses and city centre stakeholders, HullBID creates sustainable initiatives that help make the city centre area a measurably safer, measurably cleaner and measurably busier place to do business.

The Growth Hub is part of the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership and provides quick and easy access to local and national resources along with information to support your business. Find organisations and services to help with grants, funding, finance, loans and support for whatever stage your business is at from pre start up to established. Get FREE help and advice from our Business Advisor who provide specialised one to one support across our region.

The Hub provides support for businesses based in the Humber region in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, North and North East Lincolnshire as well as offering assistance for business looking to invest in the region.

The LEP is a partnership of business, education and the four Humber local authorities working together to promote and develop the area surrounding the Humber Estuary and provide strategic economic leadership to create jobs, prosperity and deliver growth.  The Humber Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) operates two programmes for businesses seeking funding for growth. 

Invest Hull is Hull City Council’s inward investment support team. Invest Hull offer an unrivalled knowledge of both key contacts and available investment sites in Hull, planning processes, grants and funding as well as how to access the local skills base.

Working to attract inward investment and give business support to help the economy of the North Lincolnshire area and boost trade and export, providing land and property searches and grants and funding for businesses. In addition, the North Lincolnshire Business Network (NLBN), established in January 2010 has over 100 members and helps local businesses in North Lincolnshire to generate more business in the area.

InvestNEL is the brand under which investment activities are coordinated across North East Lincolnshire. The local authority, North East Lincolnshire Council, and its regeneration and development partner, ENGIE, are committed to enabling the potential for investment and growth.

The IOD is a business organisation for company directors, senior business leaders and entrepreneurs, it is a Professional Institute with members which promotes directors and develops corporate governance.

Marketing Humber is a diverse and passionate group of member companies, ranging from entrepreneurial SMEs to global businesses. As an organisation, Marketing Humber is strategic and driven in its approach and as a powerful voice for the region its coal goal is to influence target audiences to choose the Humber as a place to invest, live, work and do business.  

Marketing Humber supports its members by developing unique marketing materials, PR, communications and events that project developments within the region and support key initiatives. 

The Enterprise Centre at the University of Hull is a thriving community of ambitious up-and-comers. We're more than an office space. Whether you're a recent graduate or a fledgling start-up, we'll help you develop your ideas, gain key business skills such as project management and marketing, and help you connect with established entrepreneurs to nurture your idea and turn your business into a success.

Support for innovative business ideas.

THMA is a membership organisation with 200 companies working in the marine and offshore sectors. THMA provides expert advice, brings companies together to collaborate on joint ventures and supply chain opportunities, lobbies the government and represents members at key UK and European conference and exhibitions. It also hosts and organises numerous events throughout the year, including the rapidly growing Offshore Wind Connections conference.