Success Stories

Change Please is an organisation where social enterprise and coffee expertise blend. For every cup of coffee they sell, it helps change someone’s life for the better.

Wild Cosmetics, based in London, is on a mission to remove single use plastic and create high performing natural formulations that allow customers to switch to more sustainable everyday bathroom products.

Pure Pet Food raised a multi-million-pound investment from Mercia and the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

FittaMamma is an online retail company selling a range of maternity fitness wear. It was set up by Start Up Loans recipient and business woman Alexandra McCabe.

Decorator’s Notebook is an online shop selling design-led home accessories made by social enterprises, fair trade groups and artisanal co-operatives around the world.

Learn how BTS Concept Store used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

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

Jacqueline Moran, a mum and entrepreneur based in Wirral, used her Start Up Loan to set up The Sewing Room, which offers expert clothes fitting and alterations.

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

Brett’s Pets is a family-run pet shop, based in Chorley, Lancashire. It provides customers with a range of pet foods and products along with information and husbandry advice on most animals and exotic reptiles.

Learn how Bow Wows at No. 7 used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Kerry-Ann Graham decided to set up her business, Gabby’s World; a business whose founding principle is encouraging diversity and equality through play; where values, social norms are learnt and reinforced.

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

Start Up Loan recipient Andrew McAlpine took out a loan to help develop his flower kiosk, Rockflower.

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

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

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

Pip Howeson is dedicated to the rejuvenation of the British textile industry, offering a bespoke tailoring service of handcrafted coats and jackets.