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How many programmes fit, what range is possible and which time window closes first.

Business
Granite Crust
Project
Bakery café with a morning bread round in Aberdeen
Date
10.11.2026

1Matching programmes

4 programmes are open to your project.

Programmes from your nation, region and local council are not yet included here.

2Grants and loans

Some you keep as a grant; others you repay as a loan or secure with a guarantee.

Grants and benefitsno amount stated
Loans and guaranteesup to £25,000

How much of this is within your reach depends on your project costs.

3Starting point

  • Met: You can take on a personal start-up loan before the café is registered.
  • Advantage: A proven food business needs no innovation to qualify for loans and support.
  • Hurdle: The larger loans only open once you are trading; finance the fit-out first and keep clean records from the first day.

4Time windows

  • Open: Apply for the start-up loan before you sign the lease – otherwise you pay for the fit-out yourself.

5Ways to finance

First the personal loan for the fit-out, prepared with free local support, then a larger loan once the café is trading.

  • Start-up loan: A personal loan with a fixed rate and free mentoring, open before you register.
  • Regional loan fund: Commercial loans for small businesses that are already trading.
  • Free local support: Help with the plan and the forecast that lenders ask for.

6Your next steps

Fictional example Projects and people are invented. Programmes, providers, amounts, application windows, sources and check dates come from the planix funding table.

FAQ

Frequent questions

No. planix shows you which requirements you meet, what is still open and who decides. The approval always comes from the funding body, never from us. You submit the applications yourself – the report prepares them.

No. Behind it sits a curated funding database: over 100 programmes, 30 data fields per programme, each with an official source and a date checked. A live search would drag along blogs and outdated amounts – here every programme states where the figure comes from and when it was last verified.

Many programmes only pay if the application was submitted before the project started. A contract, an order, a registration or a hire can cost the entitlement permanently. The report names the earliest safe project start per programme – the free check warns you even before that.

Often several at once, and that is exactly where it gets tricky. UK-wide, the British Business Bank backs Start Up Loans (up to £25,000 per person at a fixed 7.5% a year, plus 12 months of free mentoring) and the Growth Guarantee Scheme, through which your lender gets a 70% government guarantee. Innovate UK funds innovation through competitions, Innovation Loans and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, and HMRC adds R&D tax relief. On top come the Nations and Regions Investment Funds, the Development Bank of Wales, Business Gateway and Scottish EDGE in Scotland, Invest Northern Ireland and the Growth Hubs in England. Direct grants are the exception – the report treats loans, guarantees and tax relief as equal routes, checks every level against your location and flags what rules each other out.

From the programme’s official source, with the date checked in the report: British Business Bank, Start Up Loans, Innovate UK, HMRC, Growth Guarantee Scheme, GOV.UK and others. If a detail is missing, it says so – nothing is filled in or estimated.

Then the report says so instead of forcing weak recommendations.

All of them – but each one is funded differently. Retail and hospitality mostly regionally, technology and research through innovation programmes, social services through foundations and project budgets. For 14 industries there is a page on what typically applies.

Funding by industry

Yes. Every programme comes from the verified planix funding table – with provider, amount, official source and check date. Only the projects and people are invented.

Because funding is national. For the United Kingdom planix checks its own programmes – UK-wide, from the nations and regions and from foundations.

The funding check is free: it shows how many programmes fit, what range is possible and which time window closes first – without programme names. “Find funding” names every programme with amount, application, source and the order in which you tackle it.

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