Looking for funding?
Whether you are looking to start a new business, grow a successful one or looking for funds to tie your business over difficult times, finding capital is one of your biggest challenges. To help London’s would-be and experienced entrepreneurs and business people Capital Enterprise is able to offer practical help by:
A: Provide a recommended list of available sources of finance (including soft loans and grants) for new and growing businesses in London. Available on request by e-mailing carly@capitalenterprise.org
B: Enrolling on the Business Bootcamp Extra fund-raising workshops that are free of charge to any entrepreneur who is a client of a member of Capital Enterprise. These RBS sponsored 1-2 hour workshops look at raising money from specific sources of mainly government funded or backed sources such as R&D tax credits from the HRMC, innovation grants from the Technology Strategy board, loans through the government backed Enterprise Guarantee Scheme. In fact we are running eight workshops through-out the summer of 2011 so please check out our events page for more news.
C: Checking out the London funding conference website to download there fantastic guides on raising finance from investors both large and small. For the past two years Capital Enterprise has been a sponsor of the conference and we can fully recommend the how to guides on raising business angel investment or “crowdfunding” that can be found here.
D: HBV Enterprise provide support to registered companies who need to write a business plan for funding. For more information click here.
E: Signposting you to Capital Enterprise members who have specific programmes that help you raise money. They can give you either a consultant to write a business plan or fast-track you to the soft loans that many members run. Do check out the Capital Enterprise member nearest to you or alternatively you can look at these two London wide programmes: Investing for Success Gateway to Finance
