Companies that are relatively young but are trading profitably and do not have sufficient assets to secure a conventional loan may be able to raise development funding from a range of potential lenders. As these loans may be unsecured, they will tend to command higher rates of interest than standard, secured loans since they are riskier for the lender.
Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: At Adage credit, we put our customers at the heart of our business and have been since day one. Adage credit aims to assist and help where some other credit companies won’t, offering over various financial services and credit consumer loans between £100 - £1,000 for personal loans and £100 - £2000 for small business over a range of repayment terms.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: If you require funds for a development project, however big or small, you can get help with Affirmative Finance.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: AIM Startups is a programme designed to help creative entrepreneurs off to a good start with a new business.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: A new kind of lender with old-fashioned values. Amicus is a specialist finance group offering short-term lending solutions to private and corporate borrowers across the UK.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: ART Business Loans provides business and social enterprise loans in the West Midlands.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Audi Design Foundation was an independent charity established in 1997 by Audi UK. Its aim was to encourage and empower designers by supporting and promoting designs that create a positive change in people's lives. The Foundation offered a wide range of opportunities to enable designers to progress innovative design and awarded over £650,000 in grants. In addition to our grants and awards programs, we've also been pleased to provide articles written by a broad range of business professionals. These include professional designers, design afficionados, marketing experts and - to provide a jolt of energy - motivational speakers, and even some leadership speakers. In addition to providing grants, the Foundation was responsible for several major awards programmes. The prestigious 'Audi Young Designer of the Year Award' gave students aged between 16-20 years the chance to showcase their talents and launch their careers in the design industry. A second national programme, the 'Audi Innovation Awards' focused on the work of design students aged between 11-14 years and was made up of a series of curriculum-based design challenges. 2004 saw the launch of 'Designs of Substance', a widely acclaimed global initiative that saw final year students from Brunel University working to improve the quality of life for communities in the favelas (shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro. Three universities took part in the 2005 initiative; Brunel, Ravensbourne and Nottingham Trent. The focus that year was on Khayelitsha, a township near Cape Town in South Africa. The three winning students visited the community in South Africa that would potentially benefit from their designs. In 2007, the event was even bigger than ever; five universities (Kingston, Ravensbourne, Middlesex, Lincoln and Nottingham Trent) took part and UNICEF helped us to identify the community who set the briefs and greatly assisted with communications between the UK and South Africa. After entering its tenth anniversary year, the Foundation embraced new themes around sustainable and inclusive design. This website now focuses on the appreciation of design and all the ways it is seen and used in our daily lives. In addition to our articles, readers may also use this website to search documents and download ebooks for free.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Corporate Banking UK team was established in 2003 and has developed a strong position in the UK Corporate Banking lending market. Based in , their experienced team has lead arranged and underwritten several debt facilities in addition to many participations, club and bilateral debt deals in a variety of sectors including Infrastructure, Healthcare, Financial Services, IT Services, Business Services, Leisure and Industrials. Existing and targeted customers include both private and public UK Corporates, ranging in size from the mid market through to the FTSE 100. They are committed to delivering high quality customer service tailored to individual customers with a view to developing mutually beneficial and lasting relationships. Working with colleagues in the BOI Capital Markets division. Corporate Banking UK is also an established arranger of Interest Rate, Foreign Exchange and Commodities Hedging, Deposit Products, Trade Finance and Leasing.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Our loan fund has been especially designed to meet the needs of West Midland’s based businesses that are unable to get loans from traditional sources such as banks.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Bedford Business EIS Fund has been developed as a practical initiative for sustainable job creation in Bedford. Investments will be made in businesses based in the region that can demonstrate great potential for high growth. An Advisory Board of local business people has also been formed chaired by Justin Phillimore, CEO of Charles Wells and including Ian Carlisle, former MD of Autoglass, Dougie Hunter, Chief Executive of ARA, William Naylor, formerly Commercial Director of Gibbs & Dandy and Nick Kier, Partner at Lane and Holmes. Companies must demonstrate significant potential for growth and a clear strategy to achieve this with a strong core management team in place. The business model should be scalable with the ability to take full advantage of growth opportunities and there should be existing sales and customers or credible near term prospects for making such sales. The company should have or contemplate the majority of sales being made beyond Bedfordshire. The Bedford Business EIS Fund has achieved its first close fund raising and is actively seeking investee businesses in Bedford and Kempston. In order to apply for growth funding for your business, please fill out the application form and email to [email protected]
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: BFS provides specialist financial support to small businesses in the North West and has invested over £65m to SME’s struggling to access finance. We offer a range of business finance to support business from start up to growing your business as well as equity investment services.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2002
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We help scale-up social enterprises and charities by providing finance, not grants, from unsecured loans to equity investment – whatever is best for you. BII is born out of a social enterprise and is led by social entrepreneurs and experienced social financiers who have first-hand experience of setting-up and running profitable social enterprises in both good and difficult times.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: A vibrant, diverse, well capitalised and sustainable social investment market in the UK, through which charities and social enterprises can access appropriate and affordable finance and support to grow their positive impact on society. We are governed by our social mission and we reinvest the majority of any surplus we generate in our mission. We will seek to achieve financial sustainability over the long term as far as we are able, given our social mission. The Big Society Capital Group is made up of three separate organisations: The Big Society Trust, a company limited by guarantee and the holding company which has the sole object of protecting the social mission of Big Society Capital Ltd. Big Society Capital Ltd, a company limited by shares and the operating company of the group. The Big Society Foundation, which will be constituted in the future to receive charitable donations and develop grant programmes to support the group’s mission.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Community Generation Fund supports communities to build their own community renewable projects. Projects such as wind-turbines and small hydro-electric generators will produce energy for local communities, who will be able to sell any surplus back to the national grid and use the income from this to support other community projects such as fuel poverty mitigation, community centres and youth projects in disadvantaged areas. The aim is to create an eventual £15m fund which will have the potential over time to support over 130 communities to develop their own community-owned renewable energy projects. The Community Generation Fund provides commercial but creative loan funding for communities at the pre-planning (development) stage of their projects, as well as the construction (post-planning) stage: Development Loans: contingently-repayable loans for design, environmental and other external costs involved in achieving the required planning and other consents/licences Construction Loans: long-term loans for equipment, construction and commissioning costs (post planning consent) either stand-alone or alongside bank finance The Fund provides access to capital at project stages or scales where funding is needed most but is not readily available. The Fund will consider project sizes from 25kWp capacity upwards, subject to assessment of technical viability, financial viability and social impact. Typically, the project is likely to involve total feasibility/pre-planning costs of £20,000-£100,000 (depending on technology and scale) and construction costs of £250,000 - £2,000,000. Currently the Fund is focused on supporting communities falling within the top 50% of the latest available Indices of Multiple Deprivation, with a particular desire to support those falling within the top 20% most deprived locations.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: BCRS provides business loans ranging from £10,000 to £150,000. Our loan fund has been especially designed to meet the needs of West Midland’s based businesses that are unable to get loans from traditional sources such as banks. We understand that getting business finance can sometimes be a problem. Lack of track record, unreasonable security arrangements, past financial problems or simply not meeting conventional credit scoring methods may be hindering the process. Our sole purpose is to provide access to finance to enable businesses to grow and prosper. We don’t use impersonal computerised credit scoring and you will be able to talk to and meet one of our Business Development Managers to develop your loan application. We offer loans to businesses making a positive contribution to the social, environmental or economic well-being of the West Midlands. We lend to most market sectors including construction, engineering, IT services, manufacturing, service providers and wholesalers. A BCRS loan can be used for a wide range of projects including working capital, purchasing equipment, start-ups, recruitment and marketing. If you are interested in a BCRS business loan please click onto the enquiry form icon and fill out the required information.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The products and services available from our website are only available to residents of the UK aged 18 and over, and are subject to status. By using this website you are agreeing to our Legal and Privacy statement. Who are we? Blue Swiss Capital Registered Office: St Johns Rd, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN4 9PH Is a licensed credit broker under the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Your Personal Information We will treat all your submitted information as private and confidential, except where permitted by law or where the disclosure is made at your request or with your consent in relation to arranging your loan or mortgage. We will store the information about you on a secure server and in other records. We will only use this information for the purposes registered under the Data Protection Act 1998, this may include sharing your information with other selected companies.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: BOOST&Co offers startup business to technology companies based in the UK and Germany only.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Our aim is to make finance markets work better for small businesses in the UK at all stages of their development: starting up, scaling up and staying ahead. The British Business Bank is 100% Government owned, but independently managed. It brings expertise and Government money to the smaller business finance markets. We don’t lend or invest directly. Instead we work with over 80 partners such as banks, leasing companies, venture capital funds and web-based platforms. Businesses apply for finance through our partners, and because they work with us they can lend and invest more, especially to younger and faster growing companies. In total we work through more than 80 finance partners in the market, and we will unlock up to £10 billion of new finance and bring greater choice and information on finance options to smaller businesses. Our programmes are designed to bring benefits to smaller businesses that are start-ups, high growth, or simply viable but underfunded. We have a commercial arm, British Business Bank Investments Ltd, which makes investments into providers of finance to smaller business in the UK.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Since 2004 we have assisted small and medium sized businesses in Yorkshire and North East England that are unable to get business loans. We also fill the funding gap where finance is insufficient. We work from pre-start to established businesses, for any business type including retailers and sole trader structures.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2004
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Business Finance North West is the trading name for the finance arm of BBV Ltd. an enterprise and economic development agency.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Business Finance Solutions is a Government-backed, Community Development Finance Institution (CDFI) and a service of Economic Solutions Group. Established in 2002 it has a strong history in providing technical support and alternative business finance across the North West to Entrepreneurs who wish to start & grow their businesses. As part of the Government’s Solutions for Business Services, BFS has a range of affordable business loans and services delivered on behalf on the Department for Business innovation & Skills (DBIS) by a team of experienced lending professionals. Business Finance Solutions has sanctioned over £16 million in business loans to individuals partnerships and companies across Greater Manchester alone.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: A loan scheme provided as a Community Development Finance Initiative (CDFI). A CDFI is an organisation created to tackle financial exclusion and encourage entrepreneurship by making finance available to people who cannot access loans or credit from banks or building societies. Our scheme is aimed at helping micro, small and medium enterprises and social enterprises in order to achieve positive social change and to bring wealth to disadvantaged communities.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund is a £10 million venture capital fund, providing growth equity to start-up and early stage companies. The Fund finances a number of high-growth young businesses (Portfolio Companies), as well as providing general support and incubation facilities. The Fund was established in 2010 with the generous support of Peter Cullum CBE, one of Cass' most successful entrepreneurs and the Founder of Towergate Insurance.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Big Society Capital agrees to invest £14.5m in Charity Bank over the next three years. Charity Bank is the first bank in Europe and sixth firm in the UK to achieve certification as a B Corp. Charity Bank is also the first bank to display a Social Enterprise UK accreditation badge, which states “we’re a social enterprise – business where society profits”.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership has committed £5 million of capital to create a new funding escalator comprising a loan scheme and an equity fund managed by The FSE Group. If you are an ambitious SME based in the Coast to Capital region with the potential to deliver high growth and employment opportunities, you may be eligible to apply.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership has committed £5 million of capital to create a new funding escalator comprising a loan scheme and an equity fund managed by The FSE Group. If you are an ambitious SME based in the Coast to Capital region with the potential to deliver high growth and employment opportunities, you may be eligible to apply.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Community Investment Fund launched in February 2014. The fund is owned and managed by our partners Social and Sustainable Capital (SASC). It is part financed by the Social Investment Business Foundation and Big Society Capital and provides loans and equity to community based social enterprises and charities in England. The Fund invests between £250,000 and £1m in community based, locally led social enterprises and charities, which are providing essential support and services to improve the well-being of local residents, developing the local economy and creating positive social change for all individuals in the community. The Fund aims to improve the quality of life of local individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged, and to enhance community engagement and cohesion by empowering people to develop locally-determined solutions to challenges and opportunities
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We can arrange flexible loan packages to suit different situations. We believe that successful lending requires more than just sympathetic finance.Our rates are competitive, and we take into account the individual circumstances of each borrower. Unlike many high street lenders we don’t require personal guarantees, and our profits are reinvested to enable us to continue our work.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The fund provides finance to new entrants and tenants particpating in the Cornwall Fresh Start Initiative who require additional finance to start and develop their land based businesses. The fund is managed by South West Investment Group. SWIG Finance provides business loans to the South West. We can say yes when the banks say no. Operating for more than 25 years, SWIG Finance is a not-for-profit organisation delivering loan finance to small and medium sized enterprises in the South West region which cannot access sufficient funding from the banks. We can work alongside the banks and other funders to ensure our clients have the finance they need for the success of their business. With finance sourced from both the public sector, via local authorities, European funds, central government and the private sector, we invest loan finance from our offices in Truro and Bristol into South West businesses which are either just starting up or seeking to grow and need funds to get things moving. See the business loan funds we have available.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: CWRT is the local delivery partner for Start Up Loans programme, a Government backed national initiative aimed at ambitious people who want to start up their own businesses. Applicants don’t just get financial help but also get business support from a business mentor.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Croydon Enterprise Loan Fund and its partners offer expert practical support to help businesses get ready to apply for finance. Since 2008 £2.5m has been lent to 250 businesses and nearly 400 jobs have been created or protected through the programme.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2008
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Crystal Specialist Finance are pleased to offer you a range of Development Finance options, either via High Street or Private lenders, that is structured to help you or your clients on a wide variety of projects.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: derbyloans will do its best to help start-up and existing businesses flourish but we will not offer a loan if a business proposal just doesn’t stand up. We will work with you to develop innovative ways of providing the finance required for your business. derbyloans, just like any responsible lender, will only make loans that it expects to be repaid. derbyloans interest rates are slightly higher than the banks for an equivalent loan. We may be able to put you in touch with business mentors and advisers (usually free!) and will continue to show an interest in your business.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Devon Renaissance is regeneration programme that operates within the Objective 2 area of Devon. The programme’s aims are to help businesses in rural Devon by improving skills and attracting high value business to the area. We have just successfully completed the delivery of £3.8m of funding on behalf of two of the Local Action Groups for Devon; Greater Dartmoor LEAF and South Devon Coastal LAG. These are two of the most accomplished groups in the country, and we helped them to invest in over 200 projects across South and West Devon. The programme team at DR brought in the overall programmes within £1 of the original budget and completed all of the activity on time. We are currently working on the development of multi-million pound follow up programmes in the area. We have the skills, experience, and robust systems and processes to meet the most stringent audit requirements to manage and deliver funding on behalf of other organisations, working to their aims, objectives and strategy. To find out more about our funding delivery, or to make an enquiry about our funding services, please contact Liz Abell.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: DSL is one of the first Scottish Delivery partners and we are excited to be offering loans via The Start Up Loans Company (SULC). The Scottish fund officially launched in DSL's offices in February 2014. We are part of a network of official Start Up Loans delivery partners across the UK who administer the scheme. DSL Business Finance work closely with the Business Gateway who provide FREE advice and can guide you through the application process, including advice on creating a business plan and cash-flow forecast. If you receive a loan we will then support you through your journey, providing you with your business mentor. We offer SULC finance in conjunction with the CDFA and other Scottish partners. If you are on the NEA programme, please contact GLE One to apply for via The Start Up Loans Company.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Small Business Centre is an official Delivery Partner of The Start Up Loans Company, delivering loans and mentoring to entrepreneurs. They work to support entrepreneurs looking to start a business, by helping applicants to build a business plan, and then by providing funding in the form of a Start Up Loan. They also equip loan recipients with mentors to ensure that new start-ups can make their business a success. Small Business Centre has been working with The Start Up Loans Company to help those looking to start their own business for and has helped many applicants start up businesses through a dedication and passion for entrepreneurship.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The East of Scotland Investment Fund (ESIF) offers loans of up to £50,000 to new and growing, small and medium sized businesses.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We can offer business support delivered by experienced staff who understand how to make a business work. From idea's through to firm plans and proposals, you can be confident that you are in safe knowledgeable hands.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Enterprise M3 launched the fourth round of its Growing Enterprise Fund on 30 September 2015. There is £2 million of funding available for projects in the Enterprise M3 area. In 2012, Enterprise M3 was awarded over £20m of capital funding as part of the Government's Growing Places Fund. This fund is focused on unlocking economic growth by addressing immediate infrastructure constraints and in particular is focused on helping to create housing and jobs. The Growing Places Fund in the Enterprise M3 area is known as the Growing Enterprise Fund. Over the last three years, Enterprise M3 has received and assessed funding applications funding applications and then made awards of funding to ten projects across Hampshire and Surrey. These projects have now started to repay the fund and therefore Enterprise M3 is seeking further Expressions of Interest. Enterprise M3 will be able to allocate £2 million before March 2016. If you are interested in applying, please contact the Enterprise M3 team for the latest position on available funding. The Prospectus on the right hand side of the page gives further information on how to apply to the Growing Enterprise Fund
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The NI Small Business Loan Fund (“the Fund”) will provide typically unsecured loans to individuals, private companies and social enterprises in the SME and micro enterprise size range, in the start-up and growth phases of development.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: EV Business Loans provides loans ranging from £15,000 to £1m to both new and existing businesses. Loans are available for a wide range of purposes and can often address a funding gap where banks and other lenders are unable to provide the full requirement.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: An investment business loan from Evolution Money could help you finance the present and the future of your business
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Fair Business Loans provide unsecured loans to businesses across the UK that have been trading for 24 months or longer.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2005
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: FBSE Finance Ltd is a Principal Lender who can provide Residential Development Finance to experienced small property developers. We will lend on the development of single or small housing schemes of no more than 3 units in England, Scotland and Wales.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Finance East is The FSE Group’s regional funding organisation for the six counties of the East of England. Finance East provides an alternative source of loan finance to support high-growth businesses based in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire (see map below). As fund manager for the East of England Regional Growth Loan Scheme, Finance East offers loan finance to established SMEs seeking to implement growth strategies. The Finance East office is located in Ipswich, Suffolk, and can be accessed by train or by car. If you have an enquiry directly relating to Finance East or the East of England Regional Growth Loan Scheme, we can be contacted in any of the ways listed below: Finance East Ltd, Unit 1, Basepoint Business Centre 70-72 the Havens, Ransomes Europark Ipswich, IP3 9SJ
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Finance For Enterprise Business Loans can provide an alternative source of finance for both start-up and established businesses in South Yorkshire and North Midlands who are unable to secure all their funding requirements from the banks and/or other mainstream sources.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Finance Yorkshire provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments, ranging from £15,000 to £2million, specifically to help small and medium sized businesses meet the gaps in the market for the funding they need for growth and development. Finance Yorkshire has been developed as a European JEREMIE* initiative and is capitalised by grants from UK Government, European Regional Development Fund and finance from the European Investment Bank. (*JEREMIE stands for Joint European Resources for Micro to medium Enterprises) Finance Yorkshire invests in businesses based or moving to areas within Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire and North East Lincolnshire.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: At Financing Enterprise we offer lending for Start Ups and established business looking to grow. Start Up loans are offered through the Government Backed Start Up Loans scheme for which we also offer a Sharia compliant product while loans for business growth are made by our credit union.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Enterprise Loans East Midlands is part of a network of official Start Up Loans delivery partners across the UK who administer the scheme. We are here to guide you through the application process, including advice on creating a business plan and cash flow forecast. If you receive a loan we will then support you through your journey, providing you with your business mentor. The Start Up Loans programme is not grant-based funding. It offers finance in the form of loans only, with monthly loan repayments forming a primary condition of the loan agreement applicants accept and sign.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Given the continuing challenges faced by SMEs, First Trust Bank wants to ensure the credit demand for viable business is met.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The “Enterprise Finance Scheme (EFG)” is a UK Government Backed Guarantee scheme intended to facilitate lending to viable SME businesses
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Five Lamps aims to ‘transform lives, raise aspirations, remove barriers and offer choice to families, business and communities’. We are a charity that supports the community by re-investing any profit back into the business. We are also known as a social enterprise, registered charity and community development finance institution.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Established in 2008, Flourish Capital provides bespoke funding solutions across all areas of the UK property sector. So whether your project is a small residential proposition or a major commercial undertaking, we’re listening. The company’s founder investors and shareholders are the Ainscough family, following the sale of the Ainscough Crane Hire business for £255m in 2007. This gives us, and therefore our borrowers, the advantage of immediate access to our own funds, together with a short decision-making process. Typically, we provide loans ranging from £0.5m to £2.5m. However, our experience in working alongside the UK’s leading banks and other providers means we can also entertain projects requiring significantly more capital.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We are a membership organisation that lends money to business owners across the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and neighbouring areas, offering loans up to £100,000 to both start up and growing enterprises. We provide help and support with completing the application forms and business plan templates and offer business support after a loan has been awarded.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Fredericks Foundation was set up in 2001 by Paul Barry-Walsh, a successful entrepreneur in his own right who wanted to help others who aspire to run their own business but are unable to obtain the necessary support to do so. Most of Fredericks Clients choose self-employment as the best (and sometimes the only), route out of benefit-dependency.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Welcome to Funding 365 Funding 365 is a -based bridging lender providing fast, bespoke 3 to 12 month loans from £100,000 to £5m+, secured against properties across England and Wales. Our highly competitive interest rates start at just 0.65%pcm for residential investment properties and 0.99%pcm for commercial properties. We believe in fair and transparent business, so unlike many other lenders we don’t charge mortgage acceptance fees, exit fees or early repayment fees, and we believe that it’s the right thing to do to rebate interest - calculated on a daily basis - on loans paid back early.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We pride ourselves in delivering a top class service. Gemini Finance strive to provide the highest level of service to our clients. We deal direct, by telephone or in person. We will always be happy to answer any questions you may have and to explain the process to you. We want to lend you the money you want to borrow, and we will always endeavour to safeguard your interests. Loans and Criteria. Loans Bridging Loans are a form of short term funding which is much more flexible than a standard mortgage, and where clients are likely to have an intended exit route in the foreseeable future, usually within 12 months. Whether it is to allow a speedy purchase of a property, a renovation or an investment, Gemini Finance can provide the funds quickly. What is a bridging loan for? Facilitate a property purchase at auction Provide short term capital for your business Finance a property development scheme Finance a refurbishment Resolve temporary cash flow problems Purchase of investment properties We can offer: Loans up to 75% (residential) of market value Up to 100% of the purchase price Criteria Gemini Finance uses private funding and so we have more flexibility than other lenders to consider each case on its own merits. We will always seek to offer a loan which is structured to provide the best fit for the case and for this reason we can not give accurate rates and costs without discussing the proposal in detail with you. The following guidelines may help: Maximum LTV (loan to value) 75% Up to 100% of purchase price Minimum loan £20,000 Minimum term 1 day Maximum term 1 year Interest rate from 1.25% Don’t forget – Gemini Finance are truly flexible and innovative lenders – even if you think your case may not meet the above criteria you should talk to one of our team – we will try to find an appropriate solution where we can!
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Start Up Loans allow entrepreneurs over the age of 18 to receive unsecured loans with 6% interest rate, repayable over 3 to 5 years.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Goldentree are one of the leading specialist property development financiers in the UK. We finance both house builders and property developers.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Goole Development Trust provides business and social enterprise loans in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Loans of between £1,000 and £50,000 are available to help businesses generate new jobs and safeguard existing jobs. Its loans are normally over a three year period but this can be increased to five years in exceptional circumstances. Interest rate is 7.5% p.a. There are no charges. Goole Development Trust will only lend where the business cannot obtain all the finance it needs from normal commercial sources.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We teach people about enterprise because it gives them new skills and better chances, and a potential route out of disadvantage. They become more employable, and some go on to start and grow their own successful businesses, creating jobs along the way. We also help local people finance and grow their businesses, which stimulates the local economy.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: If you're looking for development finance from people who really understand what makes a property development successful then we want to hear from you. We are property-based lending specialists, with 35 years' experience of property development, finance and investment, so we understand the issues that builders and property developers face. We provide short-term finance from £150,000 to £1,500,000. Each property and each loan is considered individually to assess that particular deal's viability. The loans are financed through our private client investors, with a genuine appetite to lend, and this gives us greater speed and flexibility. The secured loans are often used to fund a residential or commercial development or to buy land with planning. In some cases the money is used as bridging capital to allow businesses to rationalise their borrowing or rearrange their finances. There is also the option to roll up interest to improve cash flow.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Our purpose: To provide advice and finance to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to start up, to employ, to grow, and to export.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Our Business Start-Up Loan could be just what you need to put your business on the ladder and continue to climb!
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Hull Business Development Fund is an official Delivery Partner of The Start Up Loans Company, delivering loans and mentoring to entrepreneurs. They work to support entrepreneurs looking to start a business, by helping applicants to build a business plan, and then by providing funding in the form of a Start Up Loan. They also equip loan recipients with mentors to ensure that new start-ups can make their business a success. Hull Business Development Fund has been working with The Start Up Loans Company to help those looking to start their own business for and has helped many applicants start up businesses through a dedication and passion for entrepreneurship.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Impetus has general capital funds for Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and the wider West Midlands area. In 2014/15 we have in the region of £4 million to lend.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Isle of Wight Lottery was launched in 2001 and is the first lottery in England to be developed specifically to create employment opportunities. The Lottery is promoted by The Isle of Wight Opportunity Society Limited, which is operated on a strictly "non-profit" basis. All loan applications are assessed by an Investment Panel and if approved they are provided on an interest free basis to both start-up and expanding Island businesses, thereby enabling them to create new jobs.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We focus on areas of multi-disadvantage and deprivation. 78% of our investments are in the top 25% of the most deprived areas. Our objectives have remained constant over the past decade – to take away the bureaucratic hurdles for Social Entrepreneurs, voluntary groups, community organisations and charities to channel funds to the areas of greatest need.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Are you over 18? Do you have a good idea for a business but need some help to get it started? Or have you already launched your business within the last 24 months? Would you like to talk through your ideas and get some advice from someone who’s been there before and knows what it takes to launch their own company?
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: If you’re looking to start your own business, you might be thinking about a start up loan…
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The £2m Liverpool City Region Impact Fund (LCRIF) offers simple finance to charities and social enterprises based in the Liverpool City Region, including Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral, helping them to grow and scale up the impact they make in their communities. The fund offers unsecured loans of between £50,000 - £250,000 with repayment terms up to 5 years and at an interest rate of between 6-12%. Note: The terms will be based upon risk and affordability and will be agreed with the applicant during the application process. There are no arrangement fees or penalties for early repayment. The loan could be used for many things, including capital to purchase a building, capital for the development and/ or refurbishment of a building, capital to purchase equipment, seed capital to start something new, growth capital to increase the capacity of an organisation. The fund is financed by £1 million from the Social Investment Business Foundation’s Communitybuilders Fund and £1 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2007-13 programme. This is a 10 year fund with two waves of investment of up to 5 years. The first wave of investments will be made in 2014-2015 (currently accepting applications). A second wave of investments will be made in 2017-2019 from the returns on the first wave. At the end of the 10 year period 50% of the remaining funds will constitute a legacy for social enterprises in the Liverpool City Region, which will allow further investments into locally based social enterprises.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Loan Fund aims to lend £5 million, provided by Lloyds Bank to over 270 small and micro businesses in Greater giving them another way to raise between £10 000 and £20 000.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2014
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Small Business Centre can help you access finance through loans of last resort. They are open to any business or start-up in our area who is unable to raise finance through other conventional ways, usually their bank, family or friends. Loans of last resort provide: Up to £10,000 for start-ups depending on Borough Up to £50,000 for growth businesses depending on Borough Specific Muslim Loan Fund of up to £20,000 Up to £250.000 for mezzanine finance depending on Borough Small Business Centre has been working with The Start Up Loans Company to help those looking to start their own business for and has helped many applicants start up businesses through a dedication and passion for entrepreneurship.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: MCF Loans is a community development financial institution (CDFI). That is an independent, not-for-profit business that exists to bring together public and private funding to provide affordable loans to reduce social and financial exclusion. Derby City Council played a major role in the set up of MCF Loans and continues to be supportive. Our other partners include Rolls-Royce, the Derbyshire, NatWest, Home Housing Association and Derwent Housing Association. The list is growing all the time.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: To help the borough’s economic recovery, Merton Council in partnership with the GLE has launched a new dedicated £600k loan fund for growing businesses, which have been having difficulty raising finance from conventional commercial sources such as the banks.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2013
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Michelin Development in the UK aims to contribute to the economic regeneration and long term prosperity of the areas in which Michelin’s sites are located – Ballymena, Dundee and Stoke-on-Trent.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Start Up Loans Company is a UK-wide, government backed scheme, which offers a repayable loan to individuals over the age of 18 who have a viable business idea but no access to finance. The scheme funds businesses in every sector. As well as financial backing all loan recipients are given access to a mentor, free training events and exclusive business offers.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Whether you want a quick cash injection or a longer-term loan to buy business equipment.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: NEL Fund Managers Limited is an independent fund management company, which provides financial products to small and medium-sized businesses based in the North East of England. Originally set up in 1989 to provide unsecured loan funding to regional businesses, NEL is the region’s most active business investor and has since managed fifteen funds with a combined value of over £90m, including the new £23m Finance for Business North East Growth Fund. We have invested in over 200 regional companies in the last five years alone, with hundreds of companies and thousands of jobs in every part of the region being supported. Both early and late stage capital investments are available from NEL, according to investees’ needs; and alongside large numbers of investments in traditional industries, an increasing number of technology investments have also been made in recent years as the region’s knowledge economy has expanded and thrived. NEL is always looking to support North East companies with strong management teams and robust business plans for the future. For an initial discussion of your firm’s investment requirements, please call 0845 111 1850 or visit our contact us page.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Venture Capital
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The North East Microloan Fund supports small businesses and start-ups looking for simple loans to start or build their operations.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Each loan we arrange will be tailored to you and your development, meaning everything from the duration of your loan to your repayment terms will fit your needs completely.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Omni Capital is a new-generational lender providing short and medium-term funding solutions to the non-regulated real estate market. Established in 2010, we are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Christian Candy's CPC Group and funded in-house. Our products comprise: • Bridging Finance - the classic short-term funding solution • Refurbishment Finance - for light development projects • HNW Buy-to-Let - for portfolio investors • Development Finance - high-value funding for experienced developers • Structured Finance - for complex real estate projects We lend in amounts from £100k to £250m (and more by negotiation). Loan periods are from 1 to 48 months. Bridging finance is available from 0.75% pm and up to 80% LTV on residential property in and SE England. Development and Structured Finance is available on bespoke terms in , SE England and in areas of high demand. We welcome enquiries from professional intermediaries, wealth managers, family offices and experienced property developers.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Ortus Secured Finance was set up by the founders of Ortus Capital. Over the past three years Ortus Capital has advised and arranged funding for transactions with value in excess of £40 million for secured lending, distressed debt and private equity transactions. We are a secured lender specialising in the leisure sector, specifically pubs, hotels and restaurants. We will also consider loans in the commercial and unregulated residential sectors. We provide loans from £100k up to £5m and our maximum loan term is 3 years. Loans can be provided throughout the UK including Scotland and Northern Ireland. We are privately funded and therefore fully in control of our lending decisions. Our credit committee meets on a daily basis so introducers benefit from quick and reliable responses.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Welcome to Peninsula Finance plc We are a specialist commercial and residential property lender in the short term bridging market. As a principle lender with nationwide coverage in England, Wales and Scotland we operate a highly flexible underwriting process which is tailored to provide finance solutions to small and medium sized businesses. Peninsula was first established in 2002 and was grown out of a long established solicitor’s private mortgage business. We therefore possess a substantial amount of finance, property and legal experience which we use in our lending application process and in providing a high level of service to our brokers and customers. At Peninsula we focus on the property value when underwriting and review each case individually, with no tick boxes, and with the underwriter taking each case from initial enquiry through to completion and more than often beyond. We have a genuine appetite to lend on commercial property with a wide range of acceptable security. In addition we are authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and are able to lend on regulated mortgage contracts. At Peninsula our ethos is to offer an extremely high level of service to both our introducers and our clients by offering innovative short to medium term lending products with a no fuss and easy to follow process.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Types of Funding Puma Investments is able to provide flexible and bespoke packages for small and medium sized businesses and projects. In particular, we have many years of experience providing the following types of asset-backed loans: Project Finance & Property Development Financing any new project, including the development of property or plant, requires specialist financial knowledge and Puma Investments has an expert team ready to provide it. We look to back teams with a proven track record in their chosen sector and can typically lend up to 70% of the cost of the project but may be able to go higher depending upon the dynamics of individual deals. Property Investment We can provide bespoke loans secured on investment property suited to a range of borrowing scenarios where traditional bridging terms may be too short and traditional term loan criteria from the major banks may not be suitable. We understand the dynamics of local property markets and potential returns across the UK and will consider both residential and commercial investment loans, typically lending up to 70% of value. Working Capital & Development Capital The on-going effects of the credit crisis mean that SMEs are still finding it difficult to access the funding they need from traditional lenders. We seek to meet that demand and focus on providing secured loans to well-run companies which have substantial assets or predictable revenue streams, over which a first charge can be taken. We have worked with businesses across a range of sectors and can provide flexible packages to smooth and improve cash flows and fund growth, typically lending up to 70% of the value of the secured assets.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Regional Growth Fund programme offers between £10,000 and £50, 000 to eligible established businesses located across , to support their growth ambitions and create or protect jobs.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We were established in 1997 to help ‘alleviate poverty through enterprise’ by lending to businesses unable to access any or all of the finance they needed from the banks and so enable them to create or preserve jobs.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Robert Owen Community Banking – a provider of fairer finance to homes, businesses and communities across Wales. We are a not-for-profit company working to build more resilient local economies through investment in sustainable business ventures and renewable energy.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2006
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: GLE one has teamed up with Samuel Wilson Loan Trust to help SMEs in or the Home Counties, providing them with another way to raise finance. Up to £50, 000 at competitive fixed interest rates are available to young entrepreneurs to start or grow their business.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 1771
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: At Scotcash we provide personal loans starting from just £50. We provide a cost effective alternative for loans where a bank or building society cannot help. Loans are based on your current circumstances, not your past credit history. We offer affordable, fixed regular repayments to suit your financial situation and you have the option of paying weekly, fortnightly or monthly with flexible repayment dates. All Scotcash loans are repaid through your bank account by direct debit so there are no home visits or cash payments required. If you don't have a bank account we can open a basic bank account for you.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: As a privately-owned Principal Lender, you can expect an exceptional loan deal, tailored to your personal circumstances, based on our experience of the property market. All our lending decisions are made in-house; we are fast, accurate and will not keep you waiting for an answer. All the fees are agreed and clearly stated at the outset; we don’t spring nasty surprise charges on you, unlike some of our competitors. Our streamlined process and established links with solicitors and surveyors ensure deadlines are not only met, but often beaten. Once we receive your enquiry, we will make an indicative offer based on your estimate of the value of the property you are offering as security. If you accept this offer, we will arrange for a valuation of the property, whilst instructing solicitors to fast track the necessary legal formalities. We’ll stay in touch throughout the process and let you know how your application is progressing to ensure you remain in control of the timescale.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Sirius is a business support agency based in Hedon, east of Hull. Sirius is a private / public funded organisation, originally established by BP, whose objective was the creation of long term sustainable jobs through the provision of soft loans and advice to start-up and growing businesses.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is a registered Charity and Social Enterprise which provides business loans to other charities and social enterprises.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The South East Community Loan Fund was launched to boost the competitiveness of social enterprises in the South East and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working in deprived areas. The South East Sustainability Loan Fund provides debt funding on a matched basis to companies that are developing or selling a product or service that looks to reduce carbon emissions in the South East of England. Loans from this Fund must be matched against a publicly funded debt fund (“Primary Loan Fund”). Current Primary Loan Funds are the TVB Commercialisation Loan Scheme, the TVB Expansion Loan Scheme (both operated by TVB Loan Management Ltd), the Enterprise M3 Expansion Loan Scheme (operated by EM3 SME Finance Ltd) and the Coast to Capital Expansion Loan Scheme (operated by CtoC SME Finance Ltd).
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Since 1996 SWIG has delivered £15m in business loan finance to over 1,500 SMEs and business start-ups throughout the south west.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Start Up Loans Company is a UK-wide, government backed scheme, which offers a repayable loan to individuals over the age of 18 who have a viable business idea but no access to finance. The scheme funds businesses in every sector. As well as financial backing all loan recipients are given access to a mentor, free training events and exclusive business offers.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We are an Equal Opportunity organisation, providing loans for new business ideas and young businesses needing investment. Eligible candidates may borrow up to £15,000 interest free for 9 years to establish themselves in their chosen career. To be eligible for consideration for a loan you must be: over 18 and under 35 years of age; resident in Leicestershire or Rutland and wanting to start a business or have run one for less than four years; going to base or be running the business in Leicestershire or Rutland; have a net annual business income of less than £25,000 per annum, after tax and drawings; have business assets of less than £25,000; able to personally demonstrate that the business has the potential to succeed; able to demonstrate that you have a real need for the loan and that the project would not proceed without assistance from the charity; meaning that you are able to demonstrate insufficient personal funds or credit status to secure the funds required from elsewhere.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: SWIG Finance provides business loan to the South West. We can say yes when the banks say no. Operating for more than 25 years, SWIG Finance is a not-for-profit organisation delivering loan finance across the South West region to small and medium sized enterprises which cannot access sufficient funding from the banks.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: At Thames Valley Berkshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership), we believe in collaborative momentum: bringing together business, our unitary authorities, education and the community sector to drive the local economy to new levels of growth. As part of the wider Thames Valley economic region, we serve Berkshire – a sub region second only to Greater in output, with a GVA of £30bn per annum. We’re a strategic body led by an executive board of directors with a leading local business figure in the chair; all are volunteers. Thames Valley Berkshire LEP was endorsed by the government on 28 October 2010 and incorporated on 16 December 2011 as a company limited by guarantee. We’ve developed a Strategic Economic Plan that sets out the vision and business priorities for economic growth in Thames Valley Berkshire. It aims to build on the success of our Technology Sector, which already underpins Britain’s contribution to global telecoms, software, pharmaceuticals and new media advances. The development of our Plan has been enterprise-led but formally approved by all six of the unitary authorities in Thames Valley Berkshire. We don’t just want to get things moving. We don’t even simply want to keep them moving. We want to accelerate the pace of growth and change.The more organisations and people we can involve, and the more energy we can harness, the better Thames Valley business will be. If you have a special area of interest, would like to find out more, or would like to explore other ways in which you could help, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The Development Finance Bank can offer residential development funding to experienced property developers who have residential property projects throughout the UK.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The FSE Group invests in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that have the potential for significant growth.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Today, as the largest regionally based and focussed social investor in the country, we are now fully imbedded across our area of operation, offering a relationship based lending approach to our clients, providing ‘the right money at the right time’. Perhaps most importantly, we understand the unique aspects of the North and the challenges that communities face in the current economic climate.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Tudor doesn’t have specific funding programmes. Our focus is on smaller forward-looking groups, led by capable and committed people. Some of the other characteristics we are looking for include:
Organisations working directly with people who are at the margins of society
A focus on building stronger communities by overcoming isolation and fragmentation and encouraging inclusion, connection and integration Organisations which are embedded in their community and which can identify and channel the potential within that community – whether the local area or a ‘community of interest’ Organisations which can demonstrate that they listen to and are responsive to their users
Organisations which are thoughtful in their use of resources and which foster community resilience in the face of environmental, economic or social change We don’t expect every application to demonstrate all these characteristics: we are however looking for a mix of such qualities when we assess a first-stage proposal. We are more likely to fund groups with an annual turnover of less than £1 million. However, we sometimes make grants to larger groups, particularly for work which could be influential or which a smaller organisation would not have the capacity to deliver. Please call us on 020 7727 8522 if you are from a larger organisation and would like to discuss making an application.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: We like to help projects that are small scale and would find it hard to get funding from big trusts; or are currently unfashionable or unpopular amongst mainstream funders, but are making a real contribution. We are privately funded and we don’t appeal for funds, so we can take risks and support unpopular causes in ways that big charities find hard to do. We are mainly run by volunteers, so our costs are low. It doesn’t matter if the idea is tried and tested in other parts of the country. If it is new for this community then we are interested in hearing about it. We will also sometimes help established institutions that are under threat.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: his Fund is managed by our partner, Social and Sustainable Capital, and invests between £250,000 and £3 million in charities and social enterprises across the UK. The Fund can support organisations across all social sectors, focused on improving the economic and social well-being of individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable and disadvantaged. To be eligible for investment, your organisation must demonstrate the following: Be a registered charity or social enterprise Be based and have operations in the UK Have a clear social mission with significant, measurable, direct outcomes Be led by a strong management with proven capability to deliver Have a robust business plan and financial projections A clear demonstration of how investment repayment will be made Have good corporate governance
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Transmit Start-Ups provides finance, business support and mentoring for new businesses throughout the UK.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: At Thames Valley Berkshire LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership), we believe in collaborative momentum: bringing together business, our unitary authorities, education and the community sector to drive the local economy to new levels of growth. As part of the wider Thames Valley economic region, we serve Berkshire – a sub region second only to Greater in output, with a GVA of £30bn per annum. We’re a strategic body led by an executive board of directors with a leading local business figure in the chair; all are volunteers. Thames Valley Berkshire LEP was endorsed by the government on 28 October 2010 and incorporated on 16 December 2011 as a company limited by guarantee. We’ve developed a Strategic Economic Plan that sets out the vision and business priorities for economic growth in Thames Valley Berkshire. It aims to build on the success of our Technology Sector, which already underpins Britain’s contribution to global telecoms, software, pharmaceuticals and new media advances. The development of our Plan has been enterprise-led but formally approved by all six of the unitary authorities in Thames Valley Berkshire. We don’t just want to get things moving. We don’t even simply want to keep them moving. We want to accelerate the pace of growth and change.The more organisations and people we can involve, and the more energy we can harness, the better Thames Valley business will be. If you have a special area of interest, would like to find out more, or would like to explore other ways in which you could help, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Our tailor-made products are designed to help borrowers realise the otherwise untapped opportunities held in their future or current property positions. We’re easy to work with and offer a no-nonsense, hassle-free and flexible service. Whether it’s a residential or commercial property project, we like to meet our Clients and visit the sites as part of our hands on personal approach. We… Lend between £250,000 and £3,000,000 Provide mezzanine, development and bridging finance to suit Consider second and first charges and also alternative loan security Lend over 6 to 24 months Offer 100% loans (when additional security is available) Appraise against value rather than purchase price Can roll-up interest and costs to help cash flow and maximize profits Consider any property Provide cash back for fees by repaying legal and other fees after drawdown and adding them to your loan to be repaid at the end Can replace another lender at short notice Can fund a loan pending a commercial mortgage decision
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Development Finance United Trust Bank is a well-established, specialist provider of Development Finance. Our highly experienced team of property finance professionals provide developers and brokers with competitive, flexible funding and first class support. Development Finance facilities include: Residential Development Commercial Development Mixed use Development Conversions and Refurbishments Planning gain Our lending criteria: Facilities range from £0.5m to £15m We lend up to 60% of GDV Facilities usually provide 100% of construction costs, professional fees and interest with a contribution to site purchase Borrowers should have appropriate expertise and financial standing Facilities are provided for a terms appropriate to the project, usually not more than 18 months Experience, flexibility & diligence builds strong relationships United Trust Bank funds residential, commercial and mixed use developments of single unit projects and larger, multi-unit schemes. Our understanding of the property sector enables us to fully appreciate the needs of brokers and developers and we tailor our competitive finance packages to suit the individual circumstances of the borrower and the project. A deep sector knowledge, quick decision making and a solid funding base are the foundations for strong and enduring relationships.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Virgin StartUp is on a mission to change the prospects of start-ups, for good. We help businesses get funding, get a mentor and get ahead.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: Wandsworth Council has teamed up with GLE to establish the Wandsworth Business Loan Fund (WBLF). This loan fund, managed by GLE, provides up to £70, 000 to eligible established businesses located in the Borough of Wandsworth to support their growth ambitions and create or protect jobs.
Type: Debt
Year Established: 2014
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The West of Scotland Loan Fund Ltd (WSLF) is a unique consortium of twelve local authorities working together to provide loan finance to new and existing small and medium sized businesses within the west of Scotland.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
Short Description: The West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency (WYEA) is the enterprise arm of the Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce and has been supporting local businesses for over 25 years. During that time we have assisted thousands of new and growing businesses across West Yorkshire through Job Centre Plus and previously Business Link.
Type: Debt
Debt Category: Early Stage and Development Loans
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