Over 35 years of helping businesses access finance

By Jo Fulthorpe, Start Up Loans Manager, Business Enterprise Trust

Last October we celebrated 35 years giving local people and businesses support in planning their ideas to develop their business and writing proposals to attract investment.

In the last four years alone, we have successfully managed to secure over £5m of finance for new-start businesses through our programmes of support.  We can offer support to help clients secure outside investment, or even simply support their plans if they are looking to invest their own money into a venture.

We also offer finance ourselves through the government backed Start Up Loan scheme and have been a successful delivery partner in the North West since 2014.  

We have a team of business advisers whose skills range from finance to marketing and product development and each of our team has over 15 years working with small businesses and start ups to help them develop their plans and secure the investment that they need.

We have helped many different businesses in our time, anyone from a window cleaner looking to borrow £1,000 to buy some equipment to a large scale food wholesaler requiring £100,000 to secure a contract with a national supermarket.

The feedback we receive shows the time and effort we put into supporting our clients with their plans helps them have more success in business. Ultimately this is our ethos, not only to ensure that the client attracts the funding that they need but that they also get the quality business advice and support they deserve to make the right choices for them in business.