Harlow Council

Harlow Council’s Economic Development team are on hand to provide support and advise. Whether you are a Harlow based business or looking to relocate to the town, please get in touch. The team can signpost to any available business support, assist with property searches and more.

Please contact the team via the email below.

Harlow District Chamber of Commerce

Being a member of the Harlow & District Chamber can help you achieve your businesses objectives, network and receive business support.

Arise Innovation Hub

The Arise Innovation Hub is designed for businesses in the health, performance and well-being sectors. Offering space and support from a dedicated team to help innovation thrive.

Backing Essex Business

Business advice and business finance to grow your Essex business.

Fully funded by Essex County Council and delivered by Let’s Do Business Group, Backing Essex Business provides help for your business to grow, through advice, access to business finance and training.

They help small-to-medium-sized businesses to grow, providing 12 hours of free professional advice on finance, marketing, and recruitment.

They can also provide loans for business growth and start-ups, and recovery Loans up to £150k to support businesses in their recovery from COVID-19.

Group to Grow Peer Networking

Backing Essex Business is delighted to announce the return of the highly successful Group2Grow Peer Network Programme to Essex in Spring 2025. Over 4 x 2 hour group sessions and 3 hours of individual 1:1 support sessions with an expert business coach, we will through discussion and discovery, uncover the challenges faced by your business and work together to find logical and practical solutions.

BEST Growth Hub

The BEST Growth Hub provides businesses in Essex with a single point of access to a wide range of local, regional and national support.  Guiding and nurturing businesses – from start up to scale-up – their friendly and experienced team offer FREE and impartial signposting on funding and finance options, 1-2-1 business advice, skills and training and much more in order to help you find the right support for your business.

Essex Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a dynamic network of Essex based businesses, bringing a voice to the common business challenges and opportunities. Focusing on community, social responsibility and sustainability.

Essex Working Well

Working with Essex businesses to provide free workplace health and wellbeing support. Includes meetings, guidance, training and workshops on a variety of workplace related topics including mental health, HR Support and much more.

Essex County Council

Find information, advice and support for new, established and growing businesses in Essex

Skills and Training fund

See how your small- or micro-sized construction company (with up to 99 employees) can get funding for your construction training needs.

​No matter how small your business, CITB’s Skills and Training Fund is offering you funding up to £10,000 – to invest in training and equip your workforce to face the future.​

The Skills and Training Fund provides an extra incentive to access CITB grant eligible-training and supports a wide range of activities.

UnLtd Awards for Social Entrepreneurs

The awards aim to help those who have an idea or are already making a difference and are looking for support to develop their social ventures. With up to £18,000 on offer for social entrepreneurs and social businesses.

Innovate UK Funding

The Innovate UK website provides a free funding finder tool, allowing users to search, browse and apply for different forms of funding.

A variety of funding is available to support different businesses, projects and pilot schemes. Including scientific research, automotive technology, farming, computing and more.

NatWest Business Pitch Competition

Pitch your business and you could win a share of £1m

For 10 years, NatWest Accelerator has been helping businesses get going and get growing. To celebrate this milestone, they’re launching NatWest Accelerator Pitch with a total prize pot of £1m to be given out over a series of competitions throughout 2025 and beyond. To enter, send a 60-second video explaining how the funding will grow your business. Judges will select five finalists to attend a first live final in Manchester on 31 July, with a second edition of the competition in London later in 2025.

Green Entrepreneurs

Green Entrepreneurs is a fully funded nine-week programme for:

• those who have an idea for a green business, but have not yet launched it
• green businesses that are under two years old

At the end of the programme, each entrepreneur will have the opportunity to pitch to a panel of business judges. The winner will receive £5,000 in seed funding. Two runners-up will receive £2,500 each.

Heat Pump Training Grant

Are you a heating engineer? or run a heating business?

If you’re a heating engineer, a sole trader, unemployed or employ less than 250 people you could receive a discount of up to £500 towards the cost of heat pump training. Plus additional support and advice when installing a heat pump for the first time.

EV Charging Point Grant

Grants for electric vehicle charging hardware are available to businesses and offer up to £350 off the purchase and installation of an electric vehicle charge point, up to a total of 40 sockets.

Home Building Fund

Homes England is helping hundreds of small and medium sized housebuilders to kickstart projects by providing development loans from £250,000 to £10 million+.

Lets Do Business Finance

Boost your cash flow. invest in marketing, stock and your team. Business Loans from £25k – £100k.

We can finance a range of business needs, including expanding your operations, sales, marketing, staff, sourcing new business assets and more.