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.

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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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.

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.

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.

Debt Funds

GTS Flexible Materials

GTS specialises in specialist adhesives and flexible materials, one use of which is in electric vehicle battery modules.