Our Director, Richard Coldwell, spoke to Alternative Credit Investor about the ways we've addressed the funding gap for smaller businesses over the last 10 years.

🤝 We've increased our commitment to Beechbrook Capital with a new £20 million separately managed account (SMA).

The SMA will co-invest alongside Beechbrook’s existing, and future, UK-focused funds.

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We’ve made a £50m commitment with DunPort Capital, to create a co-investment vehicle, Alder Corporate Credit DAC.

The vehicle will provide UK smaller businesses with a turnover of less than £100m with flexible debt capital solutions.

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We've provided a £15m facility to Catfoss Finance Limited to offer funding support to smaller businesses looking to acquire business-critical assets to accelerate their growth.

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We've providing a £15m facility to Performance Finance to offer funding support to smaller businesses looking to acquire business-critical assets to accelerate their growth.

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We’ve made a £5m commitment to Empirical Ventures via our Regional Angels Programme.

They aim to provide funding for early-stage deep science start ups in the UK.

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✅ We’re pleased to have supported 15 of the startups on this year’s #Sifted100 leaderboard, which ranks the fastest growing startups across the UK and Ireland.

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🤝 Investing in women makes our portfolio, and the wider economy, stronger, says Claire Alvarez, Partner at Foresight Group, one of our Investment Programme delivery partners.

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📈 Niki McKenzie, Joint Managing Director of our Regional Angels Programme delivery partner Archangel Investors Ltd, highlights the economic benefits of supporting female entrepreneurs to succeed in business.

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.BEAUTY PIE is a female-led beauty and wellness brand, founded by Marcia Kilgore.

The company received financing from our partner Top Tier Capital Partners to grow the business and is now focusing on expanding into new categories.

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Smile Plastics transforms waste into decorative recycled panels for interiors. A Wales-based and female-led business, it received funding from our Regional Angels Programme partner Green Angel Ventures to expand its facilities.

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We've committed to the first close of Palatine's Growth Credit Fund.

The fund will back high-growth tech companies in the North, Midlands, South West, and the South East.

Read more about its impact here 👉 bit.ly/48pTIju

Our Chair Stephen Welton spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live Wake Up to Money on investing in start ups and scale ups. He also discussed the impact of unlocking investment from pension funds and institutional investors for the UK’s most innovative companies.

Listen here: bbc.in/3u6QIKF

As 2023 draws to a close, we'd like to wish you a happy festive period.

We look forward to continuing our mission to increase the supply and choice of finance to businesses across the UK in 2024.

We've made an additional committment to the close of TDC's £70m Fund.

The funding will help growing smaller businesses in the North to access the additional investment capital they need to scale up.

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We’ve continued to bolster the finance options that are available to the UK’s smaller businesses, despite challenging economic times, says our Chair Louis Taylor.

Download our #BBIAnnualReport2023 to find out more about our impact: bit.ly/3SBVPwb

We’re helping to create a more diverse finance market: nine of our 19 commitments in 2022/23 were to new delivery partners.

Find out more from our #BBIAnnualReport2023 : bit.ly/3SBVPwb

We've invested £10m in the latest Foresight Group's Fund.

The fund will help established smaller businesses across Northern Ireland to access capital and achieve their growth ambitions.

Read more here: bbinv.co.uk/foresight-anno…

We’re helping address regional imbalances by supporting more than 18,000 smaller businesses across the UK, more than 84% of which are based outside London.

Download the #BBIAnnualReport2023 to find out more about our support for growing businesses 👉 bit.ly/3SBVPwb

In our ninth year we delivered a 6.3% five-year adjusted return on average capital employed and pre-tax profit of £38.1m

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