Success Stories

Specialist in design and supply of vacuum furnaces will use the MEIF funding to support increased demand for products and achieve its ambitious future growth plans

Deborah and Elena Melkis used a Start Up Loan to open their Meze Greek Restaurant in Ellesmere, North Shropshire, and work at the business full-time.

Spencer Hassel, Steve Holyer and Helen Holyer are the proud founders and owners of ADi Access.

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

An events company organising music festivals, private functions and other events near Bude is using a six-figure CIOSOF loan to invest in infrastructure and grow its team.

Libertine FPE Ltd –  the Sheffield-based company which is developing ‘smart engines’ for electric vehicles –  raised a further £770,000 investment.

Libertine FPE Ltd used a £500,000 NPIF equity investment to advance its ‘Linear Power Systems’ technology and set up a new headquarters in Sheffield with product development and testing facilities.

Funding will be used to expand overseas, invest in the product portfolio and create new jobs in Worcester region

A Leicestershire-based business which specialises in bespoke LED design and installation will see its ambition to expand further into the United States’ market realised, thanks to crucial funding from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund, through a small business loan from appointed fund managers Enterprise Loans East Midlands.

Learn how Footfalls & Heartbeats (second investment round) used funding from a British Business Bank programme. Read more about how the funding helped them.

Milton Keynes, 11 March 2019: Foresight Group LLP has announced a £249,000 investment into Usheru Limited (“usheru”), the firm behind a pioneering technology platform operating in the £50bn film distribution market.

Teesside-based engineering firm Avenium Engineering Ltd, previously known as Prosafe,  received a £225,000 investment from NPIF – FW Capital Debt Finance, managed by FW Capital and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).

This IT business wanted to raise more funding but worried that securing finance from new investors during the pandemic would prove difficult.

A Doncaster construction firm aims to ‘future proof’ its business with the help of a £100,000 loan from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Joanne Boulton worked for five years as a photographer for a training company, before deciding to go it alone and start her own photography business.

Restrictions on travel due to COVID-19 meant this specialist machinery installation firm was unable to visit client sites and carry out its work.

A Telford-based audio-visual hire company has secured £100,000 from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF).

JH Mechanical Services, the Stockton-based mechanical, electrical and water management services provider, is set to continue its rapid growth after receiving a loan from NPIF – FW Capital Debt Finance to help the company service its growing portfolio of clients and take on new staff.