This content was last checked and updated October 2022
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Alternative Business Funding (ABF) powered by Funder Finder provides a free and easy way for SMEs to research and find finance for their business.
Better Business Finance provides impartial information and support to businesses and entrepreneurs looking to develop and grow; whether the business is seeking finance, or starting out or exporting abroad, BBF is here to help.
Crowdcube is the world's largest equity crowdfunding platform. We enable the next generation of businesses, who love pushing at the edges and want to challenge the status quo with big ideas and new thinking, to raise finance. For investors, we provide the opportunity to back businesses that they can believe in, those that have a purpose beyond the next customer or sale.
Crowdfunding is a different way to raise money for good ideas.
The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.
As the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership's (LEP) main mechanism of engaging with businesses across the area. We are keen to promote local training, workshops or services which can assist local businesses.
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest dedicated funder of heritage in the UK.
Provide more than £1m in grant and initiative funding every year to projects across the UK that help to provide a secure future for the countryside.
Go out to multiple lenders when finding a product, offering a much more flexible approach than a mainstream bank.
The Start Up Loans Company was established in September 2012, with a mission to help new and early stage UK businesses access affordable finance and mentoring support.
We aim to make finance accessible by providing small business loans to viable SMEs and startups in the South West region, which have the potential to grow and benefit the economy.
Each year the Department for International Trade (DIT) and TAP trade challenge partners agree which overseas trade shows they will provide grants for UK businesses to attend.
UnLtd finds, funds and supports social entrepreneurs - enterprising people with solutions that change our society for the better.