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Regional Funding

Opinion

My 6-point plan for enhancing regional funding across Britain

Efforts to boost regional funding in Britain have concentrated too much on big cities

Growth Planning

Debt funding after Brexit: How can regional funds help growth businesses?

Brexit brings with it the loss of EU funding for UK SMEs, but this may be where regional funds can step in. Maven Capital Partners' Ewan MacKinnon writes.

News

Strong regional investment focus in final pre-election Budget

Support for North-West, Cambridge and Midland among announcements in March Budget.

News

Regional Growth Fund gets £297m boost from Nick Clegg

Total investment since 2010 now £2.85b.

News

Clegg: Regional Growth Fund ‘key to stronger economy’

Deputy prime minister hails programme as it reaches 8,000 landmark 8,000th investment.

News

Fifth round recipients of Regional Growth Fund unveiled by Nick Clegg

Government investment pot the Regional Growth Fund has selected which businesses will receive the latest funding injections from its £3.2 billion stock.

News

How and why to apply for Regional Growth Fund finance

With more than £800 million of capital awarded through the Regional Growth Fund scheme so far, GrowthBusiness meets one of the successful applicants to discover what led to the application and why the funding method worked.

Entrepreneurs

Looking beyond the Silicon Roundabout bubble to other regional hubs

Guy Mucklow, CEO of Worcester-based Postcode Anywhere, is calling on the government to not forget about exciting technology companies located outside of London.

Venture Capital Funding

Cambridge Innovation Capital fund backed by ARM and University of Cambridge

A new fund set up to invest in Cambridge technology companies has received contributions from ARM and the University of Cambridge Endowment Fund.

News

Burnley scoops most enterprising town award ahead of European competition in November

The Lancashire town of Burnley has been named the most enterprising location in Britain by a government competition.

News

Expanded Regional Growth Fund fourth pot dishes out £506 million through 102 offers

The fourth round of the Regional Growth Fund finance scheme has seen 102 companies and projects receive conditional offers.

News

Government’s Spending Review pledges more apprentices and the creation of Heseltine’s Local Growth Fund.

Chancellor George Osborne has committed to create more apprenticeships and created a Single Local Growth Fund, first outlined by Lord Heseltine.