Facts

Finance

• managing over £300m of investment funds
• providing private equity and venture capital to more SMEs than any other investor in the marketplace for the fifth consecutive year
• brokering business angel investments from £25,000 to £1m, resulting in over £5m in new equity investment for our clients
• investing over £43m in over 160 transactions worth in total over £150m
• financing £340m of clients' turnover
• managing nearly £30m of loan funds and advancing £7.5m to 230 SMEs

Advice and training

• providing advice and support to over 15,000 businesses nationwide
• creating over 300 new businesses
• delivering the UK Trade & Investment service in London and the South East, and the Manufacturing Advisory Service in Yorkshire & Humber
• providing intensive internatlonal trade support to over 2,000 companies to increase their sales and improve business performance
• continuing to be a leading UK enterprise agency
• working in partnership with the London Development Agency and UK Trade & Investment to win an extra £5m of European Regional Development Fund support for London companies to expand in international markets

Business accommodation

• completing development works across London and the South East
• creating over 270,000 square feet of business space at sites in Enfield, Haringey and Bexley

Consulting

• managing £70m of grants and other publicly funded programmes, supporting people into training and employment
• working with the European Commission, the London Development Agency, several boroughs and London Councils
• operating from offices in London, Brussels and Prague
• supporting boroughs to access the £1bn+ of European funding
• leading the £5.3m Enterprise Europe Network London