Finance and support for your business

Able Futures is a funded service that helps employees, self-employed people and employers manage mental health at work.

Loan fund for SMEs in the manufacturing supply chain who are looking for investment to grow and support job creation.

Advice on good practice in employment and employment relations.

Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.

Offers funding for civil aerospace research and technology development in the UK.

Funding for research and technology development to maintain and grow the UK’s competitive positions in civil aerospace.

The Andover Skills Training Fund Grant offer grants for skills training.

Provides artists and those with an interest in employing artists in Derbyshire with useful information and advice, including funding, awards, events and free online directory listing.

Free, quick and easy access to a directory of approved finance suppliers for UK businesses.

Big Issue Invest helps social enterprises and charities by providing loans and investments.

Blaby District Council Community Grants offer a variety of grants to the community and voluntary sector.

The British Libraries Business & IP Centres are located in locations across the Country, they offer a wide range of support.

The Angel CoFund works alongside syndicates of sector focused angel investors to provide equity investment into early stage, high growth UK businesses.

Specialist support and resources to help businesses cut carbon emissions, save energy and work on new technologies.

Co Operatives UK is a membership network for businesses working to promote, develop and unite member-owned business.

Free support to help businesses compete for major public and private sector contracts

The Cranfield Trust is a charity that provides free management consultancy for charities and not-for-profit groups involved in issues of poverty, disability or social exclusion.

Capital and R&D funding for the UK automotive industry in the design, development and manufacturing of zero-emission vehicles and their supply chain.

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is designed so that your company can raise money to help grow your business.

Enterprise Capital Funds (ECFs) bring together private and public money to make investments in high growth, early stage, businesses.

Potential grant for people looking to start a new business or businesses in their first 3 years of trading in Bassetlaw.

The King's Trust helps young people aged 18 to 30 years who want to set up their own business in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Finance for Enterprise provides loan funding across England. They offer an alternative source of finance ranging from £25,001 to £250,000 for businesses who are looking for additional capital or cashflow.

A range of support for businesses in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire

Government-funded loans for start-ups and businesses looking to grow across the East and South East Midlands.

Funding, technical and business expertise, networks and partnerships for businesses who are looking to develop a space-based service.

Grant contribution to pay towards upgrading business broadband to a high-speed capable connection.

The Growth Guarantee Scheme is a government-backed scheme designed to support access to finance for UK businesses as they look to invest and grow.

Training to help SME business leaders to increase productivity, seize investment opportunities and grow their business.

Funding to help restore neglected historic buildings and sites and unlock their economic potential.

Funding for research or innovation that's ground breaking, improves European research standards or responds to challenges like climate change or food security.

HSE is a national regulator and government department that supports employers, businesses and employees.

Supports innovative UK businesses to realise the potential of new technologies, develop ideas and make them a commercial success.

Expert advice for businesses looking to commercialise new ideas and succeed in international markets

Support for businesses looking to relocate or expand in the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire area.

Loans and grants to support private sector businesses across the East Midlands to innovate, grow and create jobs.

Funding for businesses towards making the most of their intellectual property.

Grants and loans for social enterprises in the North and the Midlands.

A free-to-access short online programme to help you start a business or become self-employed in England.

Based at Anglia Ruskin University, the Medical Technology Research Centre is an innovation, impact and collaboration hub in medical technologies, life sciences and clinical research.

An online service offering businesses the opportunity to get in touch with business mentors.

Finance for SMEs in the UK with no fixed payments, fixed terms or security required. The advance is repaid as a percentage of future card sales.

Part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund II, flexible loans to SMEs looking to grow and help drive their expansion plans across the Midlands Engine area.

The Momentum Music Fund offers grants of £5k-£15k for artists/bands to break through to the next level of their careers.

My Community Portal is a portal for community rights information and grant programmes.

A police-led, not-for-profit organisation that helps businesses protect themselves from cybercrime through free and paid memberships, offering practical cyber security advice, tools, resources and resilience services.

Potential grant funding is available to community or voluntary groups in Northamptonshire.

Grants for the repair and conservation of historic buildings, monuments and landscapes.

Shaw Trust is a national charity that supports disabled and disadvantaged people to prepare for work, find jobs and live more independently.

Find training and employment schemes for your business.