For finance providers
Discover our range of finance solutions designed to help our partners support UK businesses
Information about our programmes for finance providers
We create new financing opportunities for smaller businesses by working with over 180 private-sector partners.
We offer a range of solutions to help our partners finance more young and fast-growing small companies in the UK.
We also have a commercial arm with separate governance and return targets, which can fund providers of finance to smaller businesses on a purely commercial basis.
Debt finance
We work with a large number of lenders to fund a variety of debt finance programmes designed to encourage additional lending to smaller businesses.
British Business Bank debt finance programmes
Learn more about our various debt finance programmes.
Growth Guarantee Scheme (GGS)
The Growth Guarantee Scheme is the successor to the Recovery Loan Scheme. It is designed to support access to finance for UK smaller businesses as they look to invest and grow, and was launched with accredited lenders on 1st July 2024.
ENABLE Programmes
Find out about our ENABLE Programmes and how we support financial institutions to unlock more lending for smaller businesses.
Debt Funds
We focus our efforts on supporting established as well as emerging managers raising funds that lend to smaller, generally higher growth, companies with revenues of up to £100m
FinTech
We are continuing to engage actively with market participants, seeking appropriate opportunities in the FinTech alternative lending sector.
Structured Capital Solutions
Structured Capital Solutions help address the capital constraints faced by our partners
Equity Finance
We help finance a number of private sector venture capital and corporate venture capital funds designed to support a range of UK businesses with long-term potential.
British Business Bank equity finance programmes
Learn more about our various equity finance programmes.
British Growth Partnership
The British Growth Partnership, subject to regulatory approval, will encourage more UK pension fund investment into the UK’s fastest growing, most innovative companies.
The Enterprise Capital Funds programme
Enterprise Capital Funds combine private and public money to make equity investments in high growth businesses. Learn more about ECF.
Long-term Investment for Technology and Science (LIFTS)
The Long-term Investment for Technology and Science (LIFTS) initiative seeks proposals from industry for the establishment of new funds or investment structures to crowd in UK institutional investment, particularly Defined Contribution (DC) pension funds, to support the growth and ambitions of the UK’s most innovative science and technology companies.
National Security Strategic Investment Fund
Learn more about the National Security Strategic Investment Fund and our purpose.
Managed Funds Programme
Our Managed Funds Programme seeks to draw in institutional capital to the UK’s venture and growth capital markets.
Regional Angels Programme
Our Regional Angels Programme invests alongside angel investors into smaller businesses across the UK to help close the regional equity gap.
Future Fund: Breakthrough
Future Fund: Breakthrough is a £425m UK-wide programme which encourages private investors to co-invest in growth stage, Research & Development (R&D) UK companies operating in breakthrough technology sectors.
Life Sciences Investment Programme
The Life Sciences Investment Programme (LSIP) is a £200m initiative which makes cornerstone commitments to later stage life sciences venture growth funds with a strong UK focus.
Patient Capital Funds
Through our core £2.5bn programme we invest in venture and venture growth capital funds, and co-invest alongside those funds in the most promising later-stage UK businesses within our portfolio.
Our legacy programmes
Learn more about the historic programmes we've administered since our founding in 2014.
Recovery Loan Scheme
Find out about the Recovery Loan Scheme offered through accredited lenders, how it works and the key features of Recovery Loans.
Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS)
Read about the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), designed to enable businesses to access finance more quickly during the coronavirus outbreak.
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS)
The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) was designed to provide financial support to smaller businesses across the UK that were losing revenue, and seeing their cashflow disrupted, as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Future Fund
Find out more about the Future Fund, an overview of the scheme and other business finance support available.
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