Go Succeed Grand Support Call 2

1 October 2025

Deadline: November 5, 2025

If you’ve previously received support or are currently going through the Go Succeed service, you may be eligible to apply for a grant of between £1,000 and £3,000 to help take your business to the next level.

Go Succeed grants can fund up to 50% of eligible capital costs – whether that’s investing in new equipment, boosting productivity, or improving how you promote your business online.

Examples of what the grant can support include:

• New equipment / machinery that contributes towards business productivity growth or efficiency
• Mobile machinery
• Computer equipment & software (outright purchase only, on-going license fees ineligible)
• Web development / e-commerce websites

Who can apply? To be eligible, you must:

• Be actively trading within your council area.
• Have completed at least 60% of your mentoring support through Go Succeed.
• Have identified a barrier to growth the grant can help address.
• Be an enterprise or social enterprise with fewer than 50 full-time employees.

Important info:

• Use Call 2 application form ONLY, any previous versions will not be accepted.
• Grants will be awarded through a competitive process.
• You must not start your project until a formal Letter of Offer is received, signed, dated, and returned within 14 days to the council.
• All grants are paid retrospectively, after satisfactory project completion and verification.
• You must declare if you have applied to any other grant funding scheme that is open at the same time as or overlapping with Go Succeed Grants Call 2

Important help sessions!

The Council and Go Succeed partners are hosting online and in person information sessions, please sign up below to find out more about the Go Succeed Grants;

For Ards and North Down Area, 6th October online

For Ards and North Down Area, 14th October in-person

Regional Masterclasses Online 
Tuesday 7th October 10am-12pm online
Tuesday 21st October 10am-12pm online

Find out more and apply here.

Applications close on Wednesday 5th November 2025 at 12 noon.