Regional Funding Support – A Rough Guide
At NBSL we meet with lots of businesses and we're frequently asked what funding options are available to businesses in the North East. So we decided to pull together a Rough Guide to funding support in the North East – we hope you find it useful. We've also included some tips on how to keep up to date with the latest funding news.
£100m SME loan fund for ambitious British businesses in North East
HSBC have confirmed their commitment to supporting North East business growth by announcing a new SME fund which has £100m ringfenced to lend to businesses in the region in 2014.
750 Providers now delivering funded business support in the North East
Although NBSL's North East Business Support Fund has been available for less than 2 years it is a sign of the scale and success of the fund that we have just signed up our 750th Provider - GNT Media based in Newcastle are an online marketing agency who specialise in helping businesses with their Search Engine Optimisation, Social Media and Content Marketing.
Free 30 day Trial Sage One - Online accounts for start-ups and small businesses
Sage have joined forces with NBSL to offer North East businesses the chance to test the Sage One product range for free - click here to access the free trial. Designed for UK businesses, Sage One is a family of online accounts software that helps you manage your business finances.
Business Bullets – Business Growth Secrets from the Experts
NBSL's North East Business Support Fund has been extremely successful in helping lots of small businesses to access external expertise to help them to grow. The key to this success has been the quality of the 'providers' we work with – we have over 650 marketing consultants, finance experts, process improvement professionals etc working with us to deliver great advice to businesses who want to grow. Our Business Bullets series is a free platform to allow these providers to share their ideas with the North East business community. Since launch in November 2013 60 articles have been posted which have been read over 12,000 times.
