Get funding for marketing in Leeds
If your business is looking for funding for marketing and you’re based in the Leeds region, which includes Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees or Wakefield, you can apply for up to £25,000 of matched funding towards digital marketing support from the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership (LEP) via Digital Enterprise.
Funding to take your marketing to the next level
The Digital Enterprise support programme is aimed at businesses, like yours, who want to take advantage of digital technology to improve to grow your company.
Digital Enterprise vouchers range from £2,000 to £25,000 and need to be matched by funding from your business.
The scheme offers a minimum matched funding of 50% towards a project and, depending on an impact assessment can increase the matched funding up to a maximum of £10,000.
The Marketing Optimist is already a registered supplier on the scheme, so we can support you right through the process as well as help you deliver your digital transformation.
Interested in speaking to The Optimists?
How do I get funding for my marketing?
The Marketing Optimist is a registered supplier of marketing consultancy, digital marketing, SEO and Social media marketing with Digital Enterprise. We’re more than happy to talk to you about what your businesses requirements are and how to structure an application for marketing funding.
Marketing Strategy
The Marketing Optimist team will develop your full marketing strategy, positioning and approach to ensure you have a structured measurable marketing plan.
Marketing Planning
Planning is vital to the success of any marketing strategy. We’ll help you get the most from your marketing budget and exceed your KPI’s.
Digital Marketing
Having a great website is only part of the whole digital marketing package. We’ll help you drive sales through SEO, Social Media, Email and Paid ads.
Is my business eligible for marketing funding?
There’s a list of different criteria that businesses need to meet to be eligible for the voucher scheme. For a more detailed description of the criteria visit the Digital Enterprise website.
- Businesses must have their headquarters or main operation in the Leeds City Region.
- Have fewer than 250 employees.
- Have an annual turnover below €50 million roughly £42,000,000 (based on last published accounts).
- Have not received funding from any national or local public sector scheme, in excess of €200,000 (around £170,000) over the previous 3 financial years.
- Businesses must have at least 12 months trading history with 2 or more staff.
- Funding is only available for Business to Business (B2B) activity. Business to Consumer (B2C) organisations are ineligible for the fund.
- Applicants will be given 3 months to complete their investment, from the point of receiving approval for a voucher. After this time, Digital Enterprise reserves the right to cancel the voucher.
- Voucher applications can be for either one or for a bundle of solutions. Three written quotations will be required for each solution.