Skip to content
Local Landscape
ClosedGrant

Flexible Finance Fund

The Flexible Finance Fund is a grant of £50,000 to £1,500,000 for Black and Racially Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises based in England. This scheme has closed.

Run by Social Investment Business · funded by The Ubele Initiative, Create Equity

Checked against the official page (sibgroup.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Grants and loans of £50,000 to £1.5 million for Black and Racially Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises in England, with grants up to 50% of the loan value.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Not confirmed on the official page

How much

£50,000 to £1,500,000

Whole fund: £4,000,000, shared between applicants

Confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Black and Racially Minoritised-led charities and social enterprises based in England, legally constituted and registered, primarily for social benefit, operating for at least two years, with minimum turnover of £200k in last financial year, not subject to insolvency proceedings, and with no previous repayable finance greater than £25k.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Social enterprises

Not confirmed on the official page

How to apply

Visit the provider website for further information and application details.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: England-wide

England

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 England, 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

You need a free business profile to rate it. Make your profile, or sign in if you have one.

Related open schemes

Everything open across the North

More from Social Investment Business

About Social Investment Business

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 (sibgroup.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 16 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 5 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Social Investment Business before you apply.

Run this scheme? Claim Social Investment Business's page to keep it right.