Business Support Projects

ARENA supports London's enterprises to accelerate their innovative products and services to market.
Beneficiaries will be provided with market knowledge, in-lab technical validation and real-world demonstration trials and assessment at the new Ecology Centre and Urban Ecology Living Lab at Barking Riverside.
The Eastern New Energy Project (ENE) is a regional support programme focusing on low or zero carbon actions and local economic development, covering the counties of Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Rutland and parts of Lincolnshire and Essex.
The ENE project has received funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund.
South East New Energy (SENE) is a £6.4 million project, led by the University of East London, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), to help organisations decarbonise their operations and research how to remove the barriers to rapid decarbonisation.
The SENE project has received funding ERDF as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities is the Managing Authority for ERDF.