Business finance and support

Services

Apply for a Start Up Loan for your business

Loans and mentoring for people looking to start or grow a business in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Get help and support for your business

Get business support and advice over the phone and online - setting up and running a business.
Write a business plan

Business plans - download free templates and get help writing a business plan
Check if simplified expenses could save your business money

Find out if simplified expenses suits your business. Compare what expenses you can claim using simplified expenses with what you can claim by working out the actual costs.
Find software for filing company documents

Find Companies House-recognised filing software to manage your company accounts, returns and tax accounts

Find government grants
- Detailed guide
- 28 June 2023
- Cabinet Office
Tour Operators' Margin Scheme (VAT Notice 709/5)
- Detailed guide
- 18 April 2024
- HM Revenue & Customs
Kick Off in Business – business start-up and self employment online courses
- Business finance support scheme
- 5 November 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
BCRS Business Loans
- Business finance support scheme
- 27 March 2017
- Department for Business and Trade
Innovate UK - grant funding, innovation loans and expert support
- Business finance support scheme
- 7 September 2018
- Department for Business and Trade

Innovation loans - GAD assesses commercial interest rates
- 14 June 2024
- Government Actuary's Department
- News story
Government launches new free business management course for small businesses
- 24 April 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
£100 million support delivered to back next generation of small business owners
- 15 February 2024
- Department for Business and Trade and British Business Bank
- Press release
Support your local shops this Small Business Saturday
- 2 December 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Millions to take home more cash as new law on Tipping passes
- 2 May 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release

Help to Grow: Management – evaluation reports
- 25 January 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Research
Help to Grow: Digital – evaluation report
- 18 January 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Research
tCCM Evaluation Qualitative Research
- 21 September 2023
- HM Revenue & Customs
- Research

Help to Grow: Management course enrolments and participant completions
- 30 May 2024
- Department for Business and Trade
- Transparency
Coronavirus grant funding: local authority payments to small and medium businesses
- 10 May 2023
- Department for Business and Trade and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Transparency
Help to Grow: Digital applications and voucher redemptions
- 9 May 2023
- Department for Business and Trade
- Transparency
Coronavirus business grant funding by parliamentary constituency and local authority
- 9 May 2022
- Department for Business and Trade, Closed organisation: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities , Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (2018 to 2021), and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Transparency