Investment and funding team
The team maximise the funding and investment coming into Darlington. Our aim is to boost economic growth, create new jobs and attract investment. This will benefit businesses and the people of Darlington.
Our clients
We provide support and guidance to meet the specific requirements of our clients:
- internal departments within the Council
- other public sector organisations
- Darlington’s Community and Voluntary Sector groups and organisations.
Please note: this service does not support individuals.
Businesses looking for funding and investment opportunities can contact us. See below.
Our service
We can help you find, secure and retain external funding and investment through:
- talking through our project ideas to help you identify funding opportunities. This can include conducting project specific funding searches.
- identifying and sourcing links to supporting information for funding bids. This could be statistics information or strategic links.
- identifying potential funding openings.
- offering advice and guidance on match funding opportunities.
- assisting you to improve the quality of your bid. We could offer 'critical friend' role or help lead writing a bid. This could increase your chance in the bidding process.
- tell you about consultation requirements, or if you need to seek external help. This could strengthen your bid and increase your projects chance of success.
- offering, where appropriate, post offer contract management services covering issues such as
- due-diligence
- contact compliance
- submitting claims
- liaising with funders both post and pre funding application
Contact us if you would like us to run a project specific funding search.
Email [email protected]
Tel: 01325 406288
Keep up to date
Keep up to date with current funding opportunities;
- NHS Health Improvement Funding Opportunity [pdf document]
- Darlington Borough Council Funding Team Twitter account [external link]
- Darlington Borough Council Funding Facebook Account [external link] - our pages give the most up to date funding and investment news.
- If you are not on Twitter or Facebook, contact us and we will send through all the most recent announcements to you by email.
County Durham Community Foundation
County Durham Community Foundation have revised their process for grant giving. Further information can be found using the links below
Funding for Darlington Communities
Follow the link below to access Darlington's community funding support website. Local Voluntary and Community Groups can access a database of funding opportunities for free:
Funding for Darlington Communities [external link]
Contact us if you wish to learn more or take advantage the services we provide.
Please get in touch at [email protected] or 01325 406288.