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Better Business Finance

Better Business Finance is a free online tool that gives impartial information on business finance, including a finance finder and a business bank account finder, for businesses and advisers across the UK. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by UK Finance

Checked against the official page (betterbusinessfinance.co.uk) on 1 Nov 2026.

Free, impartial information about business finance, managed by UK Finance: a finance finder that takes one application and shows options from hundreds of providers, a business bank account finder, and guides to over 20 types of finance.

Apply or find out more Official page

These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with UK Finance before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Not stated

Who can apply

Free for any UK business or entrepreneur, and for the people who advise them.

Checked by a person

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff), Large businesses

Not confirmed on the official page

Could your business apply?

Tell us about your business and an AI will compare it with this scheme's rules: what fits, what doesn't and what to check with UK Finance. It takes a few seconds.

We send what you type, and this scheme's details, to an AI. We don't keep it unless you save it as your profile. More about this

How to apply

Use the finance finder on the Better Business Finance website: one application shows options from hundreds of providers. The finder is run with Stubben Edge Risk Limited, a credit broker.

Checked by a person

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Have you used this scheme?

Rate it to help other businesses decide whether it is worth their time. Once 3 businesses have rated it, their ratings move its Local Landscape rating up or down a little. We never show who gave a rating. How ratings work

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (betterbusinessfinance.co.uk) on 1 Nov 2026. Its details last changed on 1 Nov 2026. A person last checked it on 17 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with UK Finance before you apply.

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