Loans to help toolmakers and component manufacturers fund the design, development, and manufacture of tooling. Loans of £50,000 to £2,000,000 are available and businesses would need to show that they have had difficulities in secring funding for the manufacture of tooling.
Support type: Access to funding
Fredericks Foundation
Provides financial support through revenue share agreements, tailored mentorship, and board level guidance to social enterprises, charities and B-corporations, with a strong track record in supporting female entrepreneurs and a focus on organisations that are led by or support excluded groups. Applicants must have a fundamental vision for social or environmental causes and produce a scalable impact.
Crowdfunder UK
Includes provision of crowdfunding opportunities for start-up and existing businesses. There’s over £10million in +Extra funding available from a selection of national and regional partners to help support your charity or community project.
Better Business Finance
The Better Business Finance website provides impartial information about commercial finance to businesses, entrepreneurs and their partners. Whether the business is starting up, looking to develop and grow, or exporting abroad, BBF is here to help.
Big Issue Invest
Big Issue Invest helps invests in social enterprises, social-purpose businesses and charities creating core solutions to end poverty in the UK.
Barclays Eagle Labs
Barclays Eagle Labs offers a range of support and services to businesses and you don’t have to be a Barclays customer to take advantage.
By subscribing to the Eagle Labs Community you can access a range of services including growth programmes, sector-specific support, mentoring, research and insights, events, online learning materials and tailored support.
Programmes include:
- Funding Readiness Programme
- Scale Up Programme
- Female Founder Accelerator Programme
- Black Founder Accelerator Programme
They also have an online learning platform: The Entrepreneur Academy that provides bite size lessons for anyone about to set up their own business.
Through the Demo Directory they provide opportunity for ambitious founders to showcase their business to a selected group of attested investors. They understand that raising capital and connecting to investors is one of the key challenges that businesses face, especially as they are scaling. The funding landscape can often be difficult to navigate and the Demo Directory makes it easier for businesses to connect to potential investors and vice versa.
Funding and advice for space services – UK
The European Space Agency Business Applications offers funding and support to businesses from any sector who intend to use space (satellite navigation, earth observation, satellite telecommunication, space weather, space technologies) to develop new commercial services.
Funding Circle – UK
Funding Circle providess simple and hassle-free business finance, whether you are funding exciting opportunities, buying stock or managing cash flow, there is specialist finance avdice available. Business loan of up to £500,000 are available.
Merchant Cash Advance – UK
Finance for SMEs in the UK with no fixed payments, fixed terms or security required. The advance is repaid as a percentage of future card sales. UK businesses are eligible for finance of £10,000 to £40,000 as long as the business has been trading for at least six months.