Make Your Mark's Founding buddies of Global Entrepreneurship Week - The Kauffman Foundation in the US - have produced this useful website. The link takes you straight to the topical area of Finance relative to your entrepreneurial endeavors - but the rest of the website is packed with useful and interesting enterprising information!
The government has introduced a package of financial support to provide help to firms through the economic downturn. If your business needs short-term working capital or you want to invest to grow your business these schemes could help you.
Microfinance courses for professionals to learn the essentials about microfinance, an effective and sustainable tool against poverty, and to do field work using their skills to make a difference.
The ICT Investment Fund is managed by the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The Fund offers awards between £10,000 and £25,000 for hardware and software upgrades.
This initiative helps businesses get the training they need to succeed. A Skills Broker works with you to establish your business' precise needs, and then pinpoints the right training opportunities - as well as helping you to find funding for the training.
Visit the Welsh Assembly Government website to find out what funding options are available to you if you're in post-16 education, are interested on learning whilst you work, or want to learn in order to return to work.
The Department for Education and Skills tells you about the different kinds of financial and other help that may be available to you to assist with your education and training.
The Yorkshire Association of Business Angels is a regional forum which brings together the finance and business expertise of business angels with entrepreneurs and their new business ideas.
Minerva is the Midlands Network of Entrepreneurs, Venturers and Angels. It's provided by the University of Warwick Science Park to help entrepreneurs to generate wealth and additional employment throughout the West Midlands.
Advantage Creative Fund is a £5 million venture capital fund set up specifically to assist the growth of the creative industries in the West Midlands by investing in creative businesses.
Growth Investment Network East Midlands (GINEM) assists entrepreneurs in locating advisers and sources of finance through this website and regional networking events.
