• Access to Finance

  This project will introduce and integrate the delivery of a new Access to Finance specialist brokerage service to the existing core brokerage services available to SME businesses across the region from Business Link Northwest.

• Aerospace Supply Chain Excellence Programme Phase 2

  ASCE2 has been designed to build on the success of the ASCE1 programme. Its key aim is to provide the conditions and infrastructure for the Northwest aerospace supply chain to develop into a world-class integrated cluster capable of competing globally. It represents the essential next stage in the development of the cluster. The programme will be selective and support will be targeted towards areas of the supply chain where the Northwest is in a strong competitive position.

• Automotive and Related Manufacturing SME Excellence Network

  This project aims to improve the competitiveness of manufacturing SMEs within the region (typically tier 2 and 3 suppliers) to become competitively engaged with the global automotive supply chain.

• Baltic Triangle Creative Industries Quarter

  This project will enable Baltic Creative to purchase property assets on a long-term lease and manage the estate within the Baltic Triangle.

• Business Start Up Phase II

  Business Start Up Phase II follows on directly from the previous Northwest Business Start Up provision, which ended in March 2009.

• Carbon Reduction Capital Purchase Awards

  The purpose of this project is to stimulate and support regional SMEs to invest in carbon reducing technologies through the provision of grant funding, which will lead to reduced future carbon dioxide emissions.

• Carbon Reduction Demonstrator Awards

  The purpose of this project is to stimulate and support regional SMEs to invest in carbon reduction technologies through the provision of grant funding.

• Catalyst Science Discovery Centre

  Catalyst Science Discovery Centre and Museum (‘Catalyst’) is an award-winning specialist science education and visitor centre run by an independent regional charitable trust.

• Centre of Excellence for Biopharmaceuticals (COEBP)

  To develop a centre for biopharmaceuticals that will enforce the Northwest’s reputation as the ‘go to’ location for biopharmaceuticals across the UK and globally, as well as providing a facility for advanced biopharmaceutical methods to be developed.

• Chapel Street Project

  The Chapel Street Project is a key element of the Salford Central area, which is one of the five priority regeneration programmes identified in the Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company’s Regeneration Framework and in its annual Business Plan.