Featured Sites

  • Kompass
    Kompass
    Access to 2 million companies and thousands of trade names worldwide.
  • HM Revenue & Customs
    HM Revenue & Customs
    Information, guides and forms for taxes and VAT.
  • Companies House *FREE
    Companies House *FREE
    The official register of UK companies. Search for information on over 2 million companies.
  • Grantfinder
    Grantfinder
    The UK’s most comprehensive grants and schemes database with links to claim forms.

Finance and Funding

Raising funding, finding grants and financial support and advice for business start-ups and new businesses in the West Midlands region. Please Note: Some databases on Business Supporter are subscriber based and will only be available from within Business and Learning
  • Access to Finance
    Regional database of financing for small companies in the West Midlands.
  • Government Funding
    Online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector.
  • Small Business Finance
    Arrow small business finance is aimed at business start ups in the Birmingham area.
  • Fair Finance Consortium
    A collaboration of 10 independent financial services providers providing alternative business loans in the West Midlands.
  • Bootstrapping
    A guide to bootstrapping as a way of financing your new business.
  • British Business Angels Association
    Site explaining all aspects of business angel finance.
  • ICAEW SME news
    New guide to export finance for small businesses. ICAEW has produced this guide to make it easier for UK businesses to understand the type of export finance products they should be considering and how to obtain them successfully.
Grants
  • Cobra
    Small grants section provides good general information about UK mainstream business grants with contact details.
  • Esme Fairbairn Foundation
    One of the largest grant making foundations in the UK.
  • Grantfinder
    The UK’s most comprehensive grants and schemes database with links to claim forms.
  • Government Funding
    An online portal to grants for the voluntary and community sector.
  • The Big Lottery Fund
    Big lottery money available from the new organisation that hands out half of the Lottery proceeds.
Tenders
  • Government Opportunities Public Procurement Portal
    Search online for new contract notices, 24/7 by registering as a supplier for free access to the site.
  • TED
    Searchable database of all government contracts local, national and agencies, available within Europe.
  • Contrax Online
    Contrax is the UK and Ireland´s leading source of public sector contract information. Established for over twenty years Contrax provides a gateway to new UK and Irish business opportunities for companies large and small who wish to compete for public sector contracts.
 
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