Could your next web, design or marketing project be 50% funded?
By Andrew Fenwick 18 June 2026 News
If your business has been thinking about a new website, a brand refresh or a marketing campaign, now could be the right time to act.
Eligible businesses in certain North East areas may be able to access up to 50% funding towards qualifying business improvement projects. That could include external support for website design, marketing, branding, digital campaigns, ecommerce, content, SEO or wider growth activity.
This is not about doing design for the sake of design. It is about investing in work that helps your business become easier to find, easier to choose and better placed to win.
At One Design Group, we describe that as: built to be found, designed to be chosen, marketed to win.
What could funding support?
Funding may be available for projects that help a business grow, improve or become more resilient. For many businesses, that could mean improving the way they present themselves online, generate enquiries or convert interest into customers.
A practical project might include a new website, a landing page campaign, a brand refresh, SEO improvements, Google Ads, Meta Ads, marketing consultancy, ecommerce improvements, email marketing, content creation or a digital growth audit.
Why act now?
Funding programmes are usually limited. They can depend on location, business eligibility, project type, timescales and available budget. If your business is eligible, the opportunity could reduce the cost of a project that you may already have been considering.
The important point is to start with the right project. A funded project still needs to make commercial sense. It should help you generate better enquiries, improve sales, strengthen your brand or create a stronger digital platform for future marketing.
How we can help
We can help shape a project that is practical, commercially focused and ready to move forward. That might include reviewing your current website, identifying gaps in your marketing, scoping a new campaign, planning SEO improvements or defining the web design and development work needed to improve conversion.
Conversion simply means turning more visitors into enquiries, bookings or sales. A good project should not just look better. It should work better.
What should you do next?
If you are considering a website, design or marketing project, we can help you work out what would create the most value.
Ask us for a project scoping call. We will help you identify the work that could make the biggest commercial difference and advise what information you may need before applying for funding.
About the author
Andrew Fenwick
Head of Web and Digital, One Design Group
Andrew leads web, SEO and AI search visibility at One Design Group. He has spent a career building websites, shaping strategic content and getting businesses found online, from WordPress design and UX to the SEO and AI search work that decides who gets seen today. It is a craft he first learned in journalism, as a staff writer at Metro and a contributor to the Guardian, and later sharpened by retraining in artificial intelligence at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. In short, he builds sites that work then makes sure people find them.