Success Stories

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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Enterprise Capital Funds

NQ64

NQ64 are a chain of unique bars across the country offering a range of specialist beers and cocktails which can be enjoyed by customers while playing a range of retro arcade games and consoles.

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Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Motiv Trailers

Shropshire manufacturer, Motiv Trailers, is set to accelerate its international expansion plans following a cash injection from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).

Start Up Loans

Ellie Stickland Jewellery

Learn how Ellie Stickland Jewellery used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

True Crime Museum

Learn how True Crime Museum used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Blue Wren

Preston-based software developer Blue Wren  secured a £50,000 investment from NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance  – a product fund managed by GC Business Finance in partnership with MSIF and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) and Lancashire County Council’s Rosebud Microfinance. The investment will be used to fund a significant expansion of the company over the next three years.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Furnley House

Funding will be used to accelerate growth plans by expanding the company’s product and service portfolio and creating 12 new jobs in the region

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Present Works

Digital marketing firm Present Works received a £100,000 investment from NPIF – FW Capital Debt Finance, managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Rent Chief

A Birmingham company which is developing a new property management platform has secured a £250,000 investment from the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund – managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund – and a number of private investors.

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Sigmavision

A South-East Midlands company, based in Cherwell Valley, which has developed an innovative tool to check the safety of vehicle tyres, has secured £1m funding to help roll it out to the global automotive aftersales market.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Labfacility

The UK’s leading manufacturer of temperature sensors is set to expand its operations in South Yorkshire after securing a six figure lending package from NPIF – BEF & FFE Microfinance, which is managed by Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) and Finance for Enterprise (FFE) and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Relative Insight

Learn how Relative Insight used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Westlinks Joiners and Locksmiths

A Hull company which provides construction services to the social housing sector  secured £100,000 funding for expansion from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

Start Up Loans

Powerful Organic

Nisa Mendez used her Start Up Loan to develop her website design business Mendez Moment.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Moodbeam

A Hull healthtech start-up which has developed an award-winning device to enhance mental wellbeing  secured a £200,000 investment from NPIF-Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

AFOS

A long-standing Humberside manufacturing firm is moving into a new era with the backing of a six-figure investment from NPIF – FW Capital Debt Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

Tribal Skincare

Learn how Tribal Skincare used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Monster Vehicle Care

Learn how Monster Vehicle Care used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Start Up Loans

Grace Gordon

Grace Gordon is the founder of her eponymous label, an independent women’s leather goods brand designed and made in Britain.