Accelerate Ashington - Digital Support

Accelerate Ashington, part of the wider Ashington High Street Innovation Programme, is a service providing support to local businesses, to help them thrive and grow and create new commercial organisations.

In April 2025, the Accelerate Ashington programme was granted an extension until September 2025 to fully fund and deliver Digital Marketing Campaigns only.

Digital Marketing Campaigns

There is funding available to provide eligible businesses with their first paid for campaign which will be a real benefit to their business and help them further understand the power of Digital Marketing and technology to grow their reach and client base.

Each eligible business will work with a Digital Marketing Company who will design and deliver a bespoke Digital Marketing Campaign centred on increasing the online reach of the allocated business.

Each individual marketing campaign will include a spend of £750 directly on paid advertising.

Accelerate Ashington has procured a Digital Marketing Company who will be able to advise you on which method of digital marketing would produce the best results for your business, its product, and client base, including supporting existing channels that your business currently uses and any new channels to help your business achieve its communication objectives.

Businesses who meet the below eligibility criteria may be able to benefit from a fully-funded digital marketing campaign with an emphasis on the use of paid advertising.

Businesses must;

• Be a small to medium-sized business (have less than 250 employees);
• Be operating within Ashington;
• Be able to evidence that they are a trading business;
• Already have an active social media business page or a website