If you're ready to take the reins and start your own business, or perhaps looking to expand, there's probably a lot you need to do. Whether that's gathering funds to cover expenses or learning how to write a business strategy for planning your company’s growth.
Whatever it may be, understanding finance can help you get the right foundations in place for securing funding for self-employment.
Having a business on your own doesn’t mean you need to start from scratch. Or if you’ve tried to get funding for self-employment from traditional lenders and been turned away, don’t worry. There are business finance options available to kick-start your trade or grow an existing one.
Of course, financing your business's future involves risk and can be complex to navigate, and if you’re wondering where to start, you’re in the right place, as we’re here to help.
We can guide you on the self-employed funding options that might be a good fit for your venture, to make the process of building a business as simple as possible.
Business loans from the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), to help you start-up
Get access to funding up to an agreed amount, which could be useful for a short-term boost to your cash flow.
Personal loans designed to help new businesses start trading, from £500 to £25,000
Bootstrapping typically occurs when starting a business with little or no assets and allows the business to develop without sourcing external capital.
Here are some useful resources to help you secure finance and self-employed funding to get your business going.
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When Collctiv, a Manchester fintech, saw demand for its payment app skyrocket, the team knew they needed funding to keep up with its soaring popularity. With our help it secured a £200,000 investment to invest in its app structure and marketing efforts, and has since processed over £3m in payments.
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