Finance & Funding

Access to Debt Finance

Rangewell helps business owners to identify which type of finance is most appropriate for individual business needs.

Rangewell

Angel-led Crowdfunding

Angels Den matches entrepreneurs with experienced angel investors who can provide the funding, expertise and connections to take a businesses to the next level.

Angels Den

Apprenticeship Funding: Employing an Apprentice

Government funding to cover some of the cost of training and assessing an apprentice.

Gov.uk

Apprenticeships

BIC SME Innovation Programme

Grant funding to help SMEs realise their innovative possibilities and support in creating an essential competitive edge with growth potential.

North East BIC

Scaleup

BiG Funding

BiG provides equity finance and business support expertise to established owner-managers, or potential managers, who can demonstrate growth potential, coupled with good management skills or an established track record.

Business Investors Group

Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds

Funds invested in ambitious growth companies that are helping to tackle some of our most pressing social and environmental challenges.

Bridges Fund Management Ltd

Scaleup

Business Enterprise Fund

Business Enterprise Fund is a not for profit social enterprise, set up to provide loans to SME businesses that will help them thrive and grow when other lenders can’t fully assist. As a social enterprise, their profi

Business Enterprise Fund

Growth

Business Growth Fund

Business Growth Fund (BGF) is an investment company that provides growth capital for ambitious entrepreneurs running growing UK companies.

BGF

Business Loans

UK Steel Enterprise provides loans from £25,000 for working capital, equipment purchase, premises, relocations, management buy-outs (MBOs), management buy-ins (MBIs), start-ups and much more.

UK Steel Enterprise

Business Loans and Funding

Loans designed to help with starting your own business, setting up a social enterprise or looking to expand and develop an existing business.

Enterprise Answers

Business Loans for Growth

With a fixed interest rate of just 6% per annum and the ability to borrow between £500 and £25,000, Start Up Loans offer an affordable source of finance to help new and early stage business owners bring their plans to life.

Five Lamps

Capital to Grow

Growth Capital Ventures provides equity and loans for start-ups and SMEs with high growth potential.

Growth Capital Ventures