Providing high-growth businesses with accessible market-gap funding since 2002.

We manage £395 million of market-gap equity and debt funds, deploying targeted capital through regionally focused programmes to accelerate business scale-up, drive job creation and foster sustainable economic growth.

As a socially responsible Community Interest Company, and the UK’s largest CDFI, every pound of profit is reinvested to further support UK SMEs. Our regional teams are deeply connected to local ecosystems and uniquely positioned to identify, support and nurture businesses that may otherwise be overlooked. This approach delivers both commercial returns and measurable regional impact.

We manage money on behalf of stakeholders who own the funds. These are the British Business Bank in Scotland and the South West of England; Funding London; Finance Yorkshire; The Skills and Business Hub (Berkshire).

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Our purpose

With a passion for, and successful history in, managing and deploying market gap funds with an economic impact purpose, we focus on more than pure commercial return to support the growth of SMEs. We promote diversity. We support underrepresented geographies. We are insightful in determining how we can improve an evolving funding landscape and we stimulate sustainability by successfully recycling smaller funds.

Our values

  • Collaboration

    Creating valuable partnerships

  • Innovation

    Working smart whilst risk aware

  • Inclusivity

    Respectful of diversity

  • Sustainability

    Recycling monies for the benefit of more

  • Delivery

    Realising economic impact

  • The support from The FSE Group over the past five years has been instrumental in our development and success and we look forward to continuing to work with them.

    Emma Brooks, Managing Director, Quintex Systems

  • This investment marks a pivotal moment for Clothes Doctor. With FSE's support, we're not just expanding our reach; we're redefining eco-friendly laundry care on a global scale.

    Lulu O’Connor, Founder, Clothes Doctor