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SmallBusiness.co.uk is working with a panel of trusted partners to help you find the right finance for your business. This channel looks at the different funding options available to new start-ups and established small businesses looking to grow.

Read a wealth of guides and tips on raising cash, finding investors, how to better manage your accounts and cash flow, views on the future of business banking and where to source alternative finance.

Financing routes

Can you give me examples of financing routes for my first business?

Startup Funding and Grants

Startup Funding and Grants

Non-disclosure agreements and raising funding

I’ve got a great idea for a business but I’m reluctant to approach sources of funding because I don’t want anyone to steal it. Am I being over-paranoid?

Startup Funding and Grants

Small business funding

I am unemployed and living in London. I am keen to start a business as a market stall trader but have no money to fund the project. I have a business plan, but no business record and am worried this will hinder my chances of gaining funding. Other than banks etc., are there any companies or schemes that will help me?

Startup Funding and Grants

Avoiding funding mistakes

Funding is the one thorny topic every entrepreneur must tackle if their enterprise is to survive and thrive. Securing the right kind of investor, level of investment and managing the process effectively is often the difference between having a future in business or booking a one-way ticket to bankruptcy.

Startup Funding and Grants

Guide to expanding your small enterprise

Growing your business, by its very nature, is likely to bring greater complexity. This guide to expanding your small enterprise should help.

Startup Funding and Grants

Ways to raise finance

Can you advise me on the best way to gain financing for my new joinery company?

Startup Funding and Grants

Sources of funding to open a restaurant

Could you give information on getting a loan? I run a successful pizza takeaway business and am now seeking funds to open a restaurant.

Startup Funding and Grants

Sources of funding to open a restaurant

Could you give information on getting a loan? I run a successful pizza takeaway business and am now seeking funds to open a restaurant.

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