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Learn how other UK businesses have used external finance to reach their ambition

Here’s just some of the tens of thousands of smaller businesses funded through our partners, with the support of British Business Bank’s programmes.

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Growth Guarantee Scheme

Câr-y-Môr

Câr-y-Môr is the first community-owned regenerative ocean farm in Wales. With a diverse membership of over 300 individuals from various backgrounds, Câr-y-Môr has become a shining example of community-driven sustainability and innovation.

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Enterprise Capital Funds

Lucky Saint

Lucky Saint completed a Series A funding round with JamJar Investments, supported by the Bank’s Enterprise Capital Funds programme. This capital allowed the business to grow its team and provided the funding to open the Lucky Saint pub.

Debt Funds

Eurotek Foundry Products Ltd

Formed in 1993, Eurotek’s headquarters are in Elland, West Yorkshire. Eurotek provides foundry additives, which help to prevent casting defects, and its product range covers most of the major additives required to form castings that foundries need.

FinTech

Fiji Homes and Properties Ltd

CrowdProperty backs SME businesses to build much-needed homes throughout Britain, with the majority of projects outside of London and the South East. Fiji Homes and Properties Ltd is a husband and wife development team, Dr Mayowa Oluwatosin and Dr Nkiru Oluwatosin, who have completed 15 previous projects, several of which have been supported by CrowdProperty.

Debt Funds

Alma Rail Ltd

Founded in 2007, Alma Rail provides track engineering services, including track inspections, repairs, installation of new track, track drainage, railway-related civil engineering and rail-related building work.

Investment Programme

Complete Smiles

Complete Smiles is a start-up offering general, cosmetic and advanced dentistry. The business required finance from Kingsway to begin scaling up from an initial pilot, and to support growth. Started in 2021, it is in the process of opening a second dental practice to support current demand on services

Managed Funds Programme

Yoto

Started in 2017, Yoto is an interactive audio player platform for kids. With big growth ambitions, it sought finance to scale its products, processes and systems and allow Yoto to expand internationally and to hire a world-class team.

Regional Angels

Integrated Graphene

Integrated Graphene is an advanced material supplier that has invented, patented and commercialised a revolutionary design for a manufacturing process to produce a high-performing pure 3D graphene foam on any surface in seconds. As a capital intensive process, funding was needed to develop the new material and commercialise it, hire a team of technical and commercial experts, and to demonstrate scalability and performance.

Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)

Shropshire Festivals

When Beth Heath used a Bounce Back Loan to protect her business in Shropshire, the loan not only boosted the cashflow of her award-winning festival company, but also gave her an opportunity to support her local community during lockdown.

Recovery Loan Scheme

Thomas Paine Hotel

Owner of the Thomas Paine Hotel in Norfolk, Gez Chetal used the Recovery Loan Scheme to not only help his business, but to assist ex-offenders to gain employment in the hospitality industry.

Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)

Diversity Business Incubator (DBI)

Based in Plymouth, DBI is a business hub for minority ethnic entrepreneurs that assists with advice and provides support to help businesses grow. DBI took out a Bounce Back Loan to help support his local community during the pandemic.

Recovery Loan Scheme

Twynham House Nursery School

The business received an initial Bounce Back Loan (BBLS) before paying it off and moving to a Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan (CBILS) via SWIG Finance. They then successfully applied for a Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) of £50,000 to invest in the business to take it forward and grow.

Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)

Edward Thomas Interiors

With COVID-19 putting housebuilding on hold, Birmingham’s Edward Thomas Interiors couldn’t design and install its showhomes as normal. Forced to furlough 16 of its staff, the company applied for funds via the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) to ensure its survival.

Recovery Loan Scheme

Change Please

Founded in 2015, Change Please is an award-winning social enterprise through their Barista Training Programme, they train homeless people to become baristas and support them by selling great tasting coffee. In order for them to stay ahead and continue growing, they accessed a Recovery Loan Scheme.

Debt Funds

Vyta Secure Ltd

Vyta provides secure IT Asset Disposition (ITAD) services to clients throughout the UK & Ireland. Started in 2001 and originally based in Northern Ireland, it expanded to Dublin in 2008.

Debt Funds

Butternut Box

Butternut Box is a direct to consumer fresh dog food subscription company based in the UK, Ireland & Netherlands. From its in-house production site in Bassetlaw, It manufactures and delivers a range of freshly cooked human grade meals, with a personalized dietary offering driven by its proprietary tech platform. It is the leading fresh pet food player in Europe.

Managed Funds Programme

Beauty Pie

Beauty Pie is a beauty and wellness brand that gives its members access to owned products sourced from the world’s best labs at up to 70% off traditional retail prices.

Investment Programme

Class 1 Vehicle Hire

Class 1 Vehicle Hire Ltd is an independent family vehicle and van hire company based in Larbert, near Falkirk, Scotland. It supplies vehicles on a daily, weekly, and monthly rental basis and has a fleet of nearly 300 vehicles.

FinTech

Hook & Son

British Business Investments delivery partner FOLK2FOLK specialises in providing finance to underserved smaller businesses within regional areas of the UK.