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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Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II

Atomik-AM

A female founded advanced manufacturing business raised £600k of investment from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II to scale-up the solutions it provides to manufacturers across the world.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II

Frank Olsen Furniture

Cheshire-based Frank Olsen Furniture, a designer and manufacturer of smart technology-integrated furniture, secured £80k from NPIF II – GC Business Finance & River Capital Smaller Loans, which is managed by the consortium as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II (NPIF II).

Midlands Engine Investment Fund II

Evolve

Evolve vehicle repair company secures loan from Midlands Engine Investment Fund II to support business growth

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II

Littlefair’s

Based in Blackburn, Littlefair's Wood Finishing Products, an award-winning and environmentally-friendly wood finishing products brand, has raised £75,000 from NPIF II

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund

Oxi-Tech

Oxi-Tech is a clean-tech company which has developed disinfectant technology using water and electricity. A £250,000 investment through the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (COISIF), has helped to accelerate the company’s commercialisation and its next phase of growth.

Regional Angels Programme

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.

Regional Angels Programme

Smile Plastics

Smile Plastics is a material design and manufacturing house making supersized 100% recycled and 100% recyclable decorative panels for commercial and private interiors.

Debt Funds

GTS Flexible Materials

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

Regional Angels Programme

Nova Pangaea Technologies

Nova Pangaea’s technology converts wood and crop residues into sustainable biocarbons, biopolymers, biochemicals and advanced biofuels, offering new sources of income for agricultural enterprises.

Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)

CEG Packaging

With most of its customers forced to close as part of the Government’s COVID-19 shutdown, Liverpool-based CEG Packaging saw demand for its services diminish very quickly.

Start Up Loans

Field Scope International

Peter Chulu received a Start Up Loan in 2013 to help develop his global market research service company, Field Scope International Ltd.

Start Up Loans

Monster Vehicle Care

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

Midlands Engine Investment Fund

CFP Composites

Birmingham – 31 October – CFP Composites, a manufacturer of revolutionary ultra-lightweight and cost-efficient heat resistant materials – used to replace heavy metal parts in a wide range of applications – has secured a £1.8million funding round to bring its next-generation carbon fibre panels to market.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Cobra Sports

A Sheffield company which manufactures high-performance vehicle exhausts expanded across the Pennines with the support of a six-figure loan from NPIF- Mercia Debt Finance, which is managed by Mercia Fund Managers and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.

Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund

Midwater Luggage

Rochdale manufacturer Midwater Luggage secured a £26,000 investment from NPIF – BFS & MSIF Microfinance, managed by GC Business Finance in partnership with MSIF and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, to increase production and support a sales drive across its portfolio.

Cumbria Crystal

From Cumbria to Casino Royale. How debt finance helped this manufacturer supply James Bond’s whisky glasses

Enterprise Finance Guarantee

CM Precision Components Ltd

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

Vantage Power

Vantage Power used Angel Investment to fund its technology development