Better Business Finance

Start-up Business Support

What to consider when looking for finance.

If you are just starting-up a business you might be looking to apply for external financial support. There are many things to consider before taking this step. Here you will find information to help you be successful when applying for funding, get the right level of finance for you, and make sure you get it from the best source.

Help from our partners

A range of useful links and articles from our partners.
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Business Mentoring

What is it? Britain’s largest banks have come together to support a network of business mentors across Britain. Current and retired bank employees have been recruited and trained as mentors, and partnered with established not-for-profit mentoring organisations. A new online portal has also been created, providing a single, easy to use search engine for businesses to locate their local mentoring organisations (www.mentorsme.co.uk).
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Appeal Process

If you apply for a loan for your business and your request is turned down you can launch an appeal for your application to be reviewed.
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Financial Support

In addition to business loans, there is a wide range of financial products now available to help businesses access the funding needed to grow and thrive.
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Lending Guidelines

We believe it is important for businesses to know how they should be properly treated by their bank and what they need to do during their relationship with their bank. We have therefore created two sets of minimum standards, which outline what you should expect. The Lending Code applies to personal and small business customers, whilst the Lending Principles have been created for larger business customers.
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