Finance and funding
Start-up Finance
Are you starting a new business or been trading for less than two years and need finance for your new business?
Looking to borrow between £500 and £25,000 over one to five years to help your business grow?
Growth Finance
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
Are you looking for growth finance to help you achieve your ambitions? Whether you're an entrepreneur, a start-up or an established SME business the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF) has a range of finance options for you including Microfinance, Debt Finance and Equity Finance.
Looking for investment?
Looking to raise growth finance for your start-up, early stage or growing business? Do you want to retain control of raising finance while building a crowd of investors who believe in your business?
Seedrs
Do you want to raise investment to finance your startup or growing business? Considering crowdfunding but need legal advice and support to easily present your business to a large community of potential investors?
Loan Finance
Are you looking for fast, flexible funding to grow a Lancashire business? Struggling to get bank finance because the bank wants you to source additional funding?
Rosebud business finance provides loans between £10,000 and £300,000 for ambitious growing businesses seeking to expand their workforce. Interest rates typically will be between 6-10% with an admin fee of 2.5%. Loans are typically taken out for three to five years. And there's no penalty for early repayment.
Are you looking for a quick and affordable loan of up to £1m for your growing business without the costs and complexity of dealing with a bank?
Funding Circle is a peer-to-peer business loans provider and in partnership with Lancashire County Council, any eligible Lancashire based businesses can borrow from £5,000 up to £1 million for a period of up to 5 years. The loan will be funded by people from around the UK alongside Lancashire County Council.
Finance for the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Sectors
If you are manufacturer, engineer or maker with facilities of operations in the North West and want to invest in new digital technology or upskill your staff so that they can use them, then register for an assessment.
You will be supported with fully-funded, impartial, expert advice and grant funding to support your project implementation.
Your technology project might involve:
- Creating bespoke products with 3D printing
- Delivering consistent production quality with machine learning
- Making training safer through virtual reality
- Increasing productivity through automation
What can Made Smarter offer?
- Fully-funded specialist advice to assess your current operations and develop your digitalisation strategy
- 50% grant funding to implement new technology, software and hardware into your manufacturing
- Access to student placements to help you understand how to implement the technology
Funding to improve energy efficiency and reduce your carbon footprint
If you are an eligible, Lancashire based, small to medium sized enterprise looking to install equipment, or measures to improve your energy or resource efficiency, or perhaps thinking about installing on-site renewable energy generating equipment, the Chamber Low Carbon Programme could be in a position to help.
Typical projects have funded Installation of: • LED lighting • Solar Photo Voltaics • Solar Thermal • Biomass • Anaerobic digestion • Small hydro power • Ground and Air Source Heat Pumps • IR Heating • Variable speed drives • Voltage optimisation... and more