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AI Grants for Business

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) recently announced a £7.4 million pilot scheme to subsidise the cost of AI skills training for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Professional Business Services sector.  £6.4 million of grant funding is available.

Through this pilot programme, eligible business can apply for funding for up to 50% of the cost of AI skills training. This is training which supports employees to develop their technical skills and/or understanding of AI to be able to develop, deploy, or use AI in their role. The application window is now open until 31 May.

Your business must trade in one of the following SIC codes:

M – Professional, scientific, and technical activities
69 Legal activities/accounting, bookkeeping and audit
70 Activities of head offices, management consultancy
71 Architectural and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis
72 Scientific research and development
73 Advertising and market research
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities
77 Rental and leasing activities

N – Administrative and support service activities
78 Employment activities
82 Office administration and other business support activities

To fins out more about the application process, please get in touch.

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Spread the cost of your Tax bills

Thursday, March 3rd, 2022

You can spread the cost of your HMRC Self-Assessment tax bill, Corporation Tax or VAT bills using a easy to arrange solution that will ease any pressure on your cashflow.

Key advantages of financing your tax bill:

  • Competitive cost – a fixed transaction fee is added to your finance agreement and spread throughout your repayment term
  • Simple application process without the need for supporting projections or complex application forms
  • New, unsecured line of credit with no assets charged as security – existing funding lines are not impacted
  • Preserve you your cash flow and maintain working capital for other areas of your business
  • Flexible repayments – spread the repayments over 6, 10 or 12 months to suit your budget, with an option for reimbursement if you have already paid HMRC in full

Contact us to find out more

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Can secure more orders but need to hold more stock.

Monday, September 13th, 2021

A client that we have funded vehicles before approached us for a term loan to buy more stock.

They are a re seller of mattresses. They have an opportunity to supply a large chain hotel on a regular basis but have to hold more stock especially the more popular items.

Rather than a term loan that needs to be repaid and once spent, it is gone, we suggested a stock finance facility as they already hold a lot of stock.

We were able to secure a loan facility to borrow money against their stock and the more stock they held, the more they could borrow.

This worked out perfectly for them as it allowed them to build up the additional stock they needed and was secured against their existing stock.

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Far better margins if we buy direct from abroad

Monday, September 13th, 2021

We have a client who is a re-seller in the plumbing sector.

For years they have bought goods from UK manufacturers but they have the option to buy the same goods from China for a far better price.

Currently their suppliers give them credit terms but buying in bulk from China, they would have to pay with the order.

The company already uses invoice finance and they simply do not have enough cashflow to do this. We introduced them to trade finance.

The trade finance company advances them the money to pay for the goods and then when the goods are sold to their business clients, the trade finance company also provide the invoice finance until the invoice is settled.

A complete solution from buying the goods to have their customers invoice settled in full.

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Cashflow tight but don’t want invoice finance

Monday, September 13th, 2021

We had a client who had trade debtors but did not want to use an invoice finance company.

The main reason for this was that the business was very seasonal with peaks and troughs in quarterly turnover and they didn’t want to pay for invoice finance when cash flow was OK.

We introduced them to a specialist company that provides them with funds each time they need them (like a traditional bank overdraft).

They only pay interest on the money when they borrow it. This solution suited them perfectly.

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Opportunity to buy land and build premises

Monday, September 13th, 2021

One of our clients needed to scale up their business premises and had been leasing for the last 5 years.

They wanted to invest in a property for their family business and saw an opportunity to buy land with planning permission to build a unit of 9,000 square feet which was ideal.

We were able to fund the purchase of the land with a term loan, which was secured on the land at very good rates, as there are some specialist lenders that have access to subsidised loans where they are used to create jobs.

We then used a similar, but different, company to provide bridging finance for the build of the new premises. Once the premises were completed, we then provided them with a commercial mortgage to repay both bridging finance loans.

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Opportunity to buy premises from Landlord

Monday, September 13th, 2021

A regular client of ours had an opportunity to buy his factory premises from his landlord after renting them for many years.

The issue was he had to find a 30% deposit.  We were able to fund the whole purchase by providing a term loan as the deposit and a commercial mortgage for the balance.

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Funding required to expand business

Monday, September 13th, 2021

A well established retail business had an opportunity to expand and purchase two new retail units.

These units required deposits, complete refurbishment and stock. In total nearly £300,000 was required.

Although a home owner with equity, the husband and wife team did not want to borrow money against their house and had no other assets (or so they thought).

However they both had pensions from previous employment and we were able to set up a facility with a specialist who enables people to borrow money from their own pension pot.

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Adding to and replacing a haulage company’s fleet.

Monday, September 13th, 2021

A relatively new business was looking to upgrade it’s fleet of vehicles and adding to them after winning a large contract.

The contract would allow the business to more than double it’s turnover. The owner of the business was not a home owner and thought he would struggle.

We have a lot of experience in financing vehicles and equipment. We were able to finance all the new vehicles required and finance the replacement vehicles too. On top of that, deposits were required for each vehicle and we were able to refinance some of the older fleet to raise all the deposits for the new vehicles.

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Problems with HMRC arrears

Monday, September 13th, 2021

This company approached us to initially provide an unsecured loan to repay some large HMRC arrears.

Once we identified how the arrears had built up, we were able to raise most the money required to pay off the arrears in full, but we advised this business to put a time to pay arrangement in place with HMRC through a specialist that we know well.

Once that was agreed, we put a finance facility in place to ensure that the arrears were repaid on time as well as the current commitments.

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