Success Stories

Tribe Tech is a disruptive developer and manufacturer of autonomous mining equipment. The Group was founded in late 2019 in Western Australia and has since established a headquarters and manufacturing facility in Northern Ireland.

Mama Claudia is a children’s accessories business based in Northern Ireland initially ran the business from her home, having received a Start Up Loan

Although tyre retailers Kerr’s Tyres continued to service hauliers and delivery companies throughout the disruption caused by COVID-19, it lacked the wUlster Bank (Northern Ireland)orking capital to sustain itself for any real length of time.

Read what it had to say in this Future Fund case study.

Closing all of its department stores as part of the COVID-19 lockdown and facing a long period of no revenue meant things were looking bleak for Northern Ireland retailer SD Kells.

As many of its customers – trade showrooms and builders’ merchants – closed their doors in response to the spread of the coronavirus, bathroom distributors CM Marketing took quick action, changing its working methods and assessing its cashflow.

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

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

Vikki Bustard had always wanted to be a teacher but had dreamt of teaching outside rather than in a traditional classroom situation. While working as a Horticultural Training Officer Vikki had the idea for Plant & Play Wildlife Garden and by chance she came across the perfect site to locate the business.

For a small distributor of table sauces, the enforced closure of food premises due to COVID-19 was a potentially disastrous outcome.

CM Precision Components Ltd is a leading supplier of precision engineered components within the UK and Ireland located in Downpatrick, near Belfast.