Consider us a lifeline for your business

Supporting sustainable business within Basingstoke and Deane

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The Lifeline fund offers unsecured business loans to sustainable small businesses (SMEs) in the Basingstoke and Deane area on the basis of matched third-party funding.

Access capital of up to £25,000, which is available on application. Any lending from The Lifeline fund must be 100% leveraged with other risk capital, and cannot exceed 50% of any refinancing package.

Your application will initially be handled on-line through this dedicated website. A nominal non-refundable application fee will be payable with any application.

Since the need capital will always be acute in such situations, the period from receipt of completed application to disbursement might realistically be as low as 28 days.

Reasons behind the fund

• Local SMEs continue to suffer from lack of access to adequate working capital
• Lenders are increasingly looking for shared risk, with matched third-party funding
• Businesses often failing for the want of relatively small amounts of captial