YOU WONT BELIEVE: 2 - What They Never Told You

UK taxpayer stakes revealed in companies that recently raised over £12m

Also included in the updated list is Steama Company and The Lakes Distillery Company

Birmingham Post · Jan 26, 2023

Birmingham animation firm Second Homes Studios expanding on funding boost

Second Home Studios is creating 16 new jobs after securing a £250,000 debt funding package

Birmingham Post · Jan 24, 2023

Launch date for new £130m Wales fund from the British Business Bank

Chief executive of the British Business Bank Louis Taylor said the fund would help plug the equity gap in Wales

Birmingham Post · Jan 18, 2023

Development Bank of Wales eyeing new British Business Bank funds

Chief executive Giles Thorley said funding to support decarbonisation of the Welsh economy is a key focus

Birmingham Post · Dec 21, 2022

British Business Bank appoints South West senior manager

The news comes ahead of the launch of a £200m investment fund by the bank in 2023

Birmingham Post · Dec 19, 2022

Hull tech firm raises £575,000 to deliver software to help meet post-Grenfell building rules

Bimsense secures significant further round of equity investment from new neighbour

Birmingham Post · Dec 15, 2022

Labour unveils funding shake-up to help turn UK into global startup hub

Party to give British Business Bank greater independence to raise capital in latest move to cement growing pro-business reputation

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2022

Government bank only called in fraud squad after 80% of Covid loans had been handed out

Rishi Sunak is accused of failing to do enough to stop taxpayer cash being wasted after it emerged £1.1billion was lost to fraud and error from the bounce back loans scheme for small businesses

Daily Mirror · Nov 28, 2022

Welsh small firms greatest appetite in the UK to raise external finance but under performance on equity

On the number and value of equity deals Wales punches below its weight shows new research from the British Business Bank

Birmingham Post · Nov 25, 2022

Equity investment in Scotland’s smaller businesses rises despite economic headwinds

Report also finds that smaller businesses in deprived areas are being stifled by a lack of access to finance

Insider UK · Nov 23, 2022