Access to Finance Useful Links

Connect Yorkshire is the fast track for growth companies in Yorkshire, England. They link young knowledge-based enterprises to the resources they need to succeed: investment, markets, management, partners, and support services.

As part of this process, they match innovative, ambitious companies with investors looking for growth.

Acceleris has a proven track record of successful fund-raising for a wide range of companies in diverse sectors and a growing network of investors and influential strategic partners.

Funding arts activities that engage people in England, or that help artists and arts organisations carry out their work.

Beer & Partners is the leading source of Venture Capital and Business Angel Investment for growing SME businesses in the UK.

bfunded is a service designed to help everyone involved in the business and voluntary sectors of the Bradford District to find funds to achieve their vision.

The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is the industry body and public policy advocate for the private equity and venture capital industry in the UK.

Finance Yorkshire provides seedcorn, loan and equity linked investments, ranging from £15k to £2m.

They are specifically to help small and medium businesses meet the gaps in funding they need for development or acquisitions.

If you are looking for Business Finance, then the Funder Database is the place to start.

Search through the comprehensive listings of Funders by Funder name, finance type, geographic region, business stage (you choose), and find the funding you need.

Use the Funder Database if you are a Business seeking finance, or Finance Professional (Broker, Accountant, Bank Manager, Lawyer) working on behalf of clients.

This is one of the most comprehensive listing of Funding Sources available in the UK today.

HM Revenue & Customs ensures the correct tax is paid at the right time, whether this relates to payment of taxes received by the department or entitlement to benefits paid.

The Entrepreneurs Club provides hard-to-find sources of equity finance for a broad range of companies by matching their needs to the financial resources of private equity investors, for the benefit of both.

The princes Trust Business Programme helps 18-30 year olds start their own businesses by offering low interest loans and grants to those who have no other means of raising the capital.

The trust also provides continued support including assigning a volunteer Business Mentor who provides regular advice.

The Viking Fund is a Yorkshire-wide, co-investment venture capital fund, specialising in providing finance for early-stage technology companies.

The £5 million fund was set up with UK government capital, under the DBERR/Small Business Service’s Early Growth Fund. It provides early-stage risk capital to match - on the same terms - that invested by business angels or other private sector investors.

The White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund is an early stage seedcorn fund, which invests in exciting new technology emerging from the Universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield.

Our portfolio of investee companies represent the commercialisation of high quality science and technology combined with professional management teams to produce investor-ready and partner-ready opportunities.

Yorkshire Association of Business Angels (YABA) is a unique regional forum which brings together the finance and expertise of Business Angels with entrepreneurs and their business ideas.

Yorkshire Concept is a new project Fund designed to stimulate the commercialisation of research and knowledge-based activities in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the Yorkshire and the Humber region.

YFM Group provides investment capital and business development services to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) throughout the UK.