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Leeds Businesses Work Up a Sweat for Charity Bike Scheme
Business Enterprise Fund (BEF) client BPM Bike Lab have launched a charity challenge where their members take part in as many fitness classes as possible to raise money for Welcome to Yorkshire’s “Bike Libraries Scheme”, which is supported by Leeds-based Yorkshire Bank. The initiatives aim is...
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Funding For Indian Restaurant Spices Up Headingley
Alison White is a serial entrepreneur. After founding a successful research company, she tried something new by opening her own café-deli, White’s on Otley Road Headingley in 2014. With her second venture thriving Alison snapped up an opportunity by taking on a vacant shopfront on the same street. With...
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Healthy Fast Food Brings Nourishment to Leeds
David Stache is a qualified nutritionist. In 2010 he wanted to invest his passion for healthy living into a business. The process of finding the perfect approach took him through a number of ideas including a gym and specialist café, providing advice from a personal nutritionist with a diet and fitness...
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Novelty Cushions Put on a Smile for Family Business
Emoji Cushion Lovers started when Sarah Agar-Brennan’s daughter received an emoji style cushion for her 14th birthday. The smiley-faced cushion was poorly made and took weeks to arrive in the post but seeing her daughter’s delight for the present, Sarah knew there was a business idea afoot. With...
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Success for Organic Farm Shop After BEF Refinance
Often the best way to grow a business is through a re-finance. Cross Lanes Café in Barnard Castle was opened in 2011 and wanted to continue development after a successful start. Business Enterprise Fund Investment Manager David Winspear advised Peter and Sue Coverdale and was able to provide a loan...
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Vehicle Repair Industry Restored in Goole
Andy Etherington and Carl Smith are experts in vehicle restoration and repair – between them they have over 50 years’ experience! Together they opened their own Repair and Restore Bodyshop in Goole in October 2014 thanks to business loan support from the Goole Development Trust (GDT). Since opening,...
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New Talent Barber Cuts it in Selby
Dan Firth had come to a cross roads. After graduating with a graphic design degree he took up a number of hospitality roles where he gained experience in management. With acquired business skills and an eye for the aesthetic, Dan jumped at the opportunity of taking on the lease from a friend’s hair...
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Business Enterprise Fund's Response to the UK Steel Crisis
After a painful few years the final coke ovens of Teesside have finally been extinguished. Once cooled, there’s no resurrection for them, they’re rendered useless. For the local population this means over 10 thousand jobs in total no longer exist. The steel industry has been dominant and has become...
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The Business Enterprise Fund Becomes NACFB Patron
BEF are delighted to have become a regional patron of the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) recognising the increasing importance of commercial brokers to our continued success. The NACFB have over 1,500 commercial finance brokers in membership who wrote £16billion of new...
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Fish & Chips Back on the Menu for Mirfield!
Lauren Dalby had experience in the restaurant business and, after seeing her local fish and chip shop in Mirfield close, she knew it was time to start her own business venture. The great British cuisine had returned to the streets of Mirfield but Lauren wanted to approach the project differently....