Funding Portal
This is the area of the website where you can find the latest funding opportunities for social enterprises. From loans, finance support packages, grants and more, there is a wealth of financial support for social enterprises now available. Use the links and downloads below to find funding for your social business.
The Social Enterprise Loan Fund
This a new fund designed to help social enterprises in the Northwest beat the current economic downturn. The fund aims to assist social enterprises and charities who are unable to secure funding from mainstream sources.
The Social Investment Business
The Social Investment Business acts as a portal to help social enterprises, charities and community groups access funding. Social Investment Business provide access and information on a variety of third sector funds including Futurebuilders Fund, Social Enterprise Invesment Fund, Communitybuilders Fund and the Modernisation Fund.
Merseyside Funding Information Portal
A brand new online resource that gives you all the information you need to know about funding your social enterprise. Information and support in tendering and procurement related opportunities are also offered through this portal.
Bridges Ventures: Social Entrepreneurs Fund
The Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund is an initiative of the Bridges Charitable Trust to address the funding gap often faced by fast growing social enterprises looking to scale up.
Bridges Ventures tailor each investment to ensure that it fits the needs of each particular social enterprise, while also allowing the Bridges Social Entrepreneurs Fund to make a reasonable financial return to demonstrate a sustainable funding source for social enterprises.
The fund is currently open for investment. For more information about the fund, please click on the link above.
Funding Central is a free smart website for all third sector organisations, including community groups, providing access to thousands of funding and finance opportunities, plus a wealth of tools and resources supporting organisations to develop sustainable income strategies appropriate to their needs.
Liverpool Sefton Social Investment Bond
Ethical bank, Charity Bank, is seeking to support social enterprises in Liverpool and Sefton via a guaranteed savings fund for private investors, businesses and wealth funds. The money deposited in the Bond will be used to offer loan finance from £50,000 to £2million. Click on the link above to learn more.
The Phone Co-op's Social Enteprise Start-up & Expansion Fund
The Phone Co-op has re-launched its social enterprise fund which provides resources to social enterprises to help them at critical stages in their development.
Awards For All, England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, social enterprises, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils.
UnLtd Start-up support package
UnLtd, the Institute of Directors and Getting British Business Online, have announced the ultimate solution for individuals who wish to transform the world in which they live, creating a package of support to kick-start an entrepreneurial revolution- funding to make your idea a reality, support to develop it and a free website so that everyone knows about it!
