Latest News
News, updates, opportunities and press coverage from around the South West. Read the latest news, events, opportunities and press coverage from SWIG Finance across the South West region. You can stay up to date with news from SWIG Finance each month via our monthly email news bulletin or through following us on LinkedIn.
SWIG Finance visits New York
SWIG Finance MD, John Peters recently joined a UK CDFI delegation to New York City, organised by Big Society Capital. The trip, funded by CiTi Bank was to give Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFI), such as SWIG Finance an opportunity to learn from the...
Start Up Loans Success
Since its launch in 2012 the Start Up Loans Fund has invested in more than 55,000 business ideas with more than £400 million in loans nationally. SWIG Finance has been the South West delivery partner for the fund since the beginning supporting fledgling businesses...
SWIG Finance launches new South West fund
SWIG Finance has launched its first loan fund using the Enterprise Finance Guarantee scheme (EFG) and Community Investment Tax Relief (CITR) with investment from Triodos Bank. The loan fund, worth £1.5m, will support an estimated 30 SMEs in the South West that...
New base in Bristol for SWIG Finance team
After 26 years at The Coach House in Upper York Street, SWIG Finance's Bristol team has made the move to new offices in Leigh Court, Abbots Leigh. SWIG Finance are in good company at Leigh Court, which is also the home of Business West, the region’s largest...
Cheese on Coast
A couple from the Midlands left their old lives behind and moved to St Ives in order to launch their own business and create a better life for themselves. Nick and Claire Gane left thirty year careers in Construction Management and Nursing and re-trained in cheese...
Rocket Garden Grows
When Mike Kitchen first started growing his own vegetables at home he was trying to emulate the classic TV series The Good Life. “A lot of people talk about trying it but I thought I’d really give it a go and what I discovered was that growing vegetables is actually...
Funding boost for Mappix
A new software platform launched by a Cornish entrepreneur has received a funding boost from SWIG Finance. The software platform called Mappix is designed to help teachers, children and schools, providing accurate assessments and reducing paperwork. Charity Wilson, 38...
Finance in Cornwall
At the end of February, Business Manager Aaron joined other South West finance providers and business support agencies at the annual PKF Francis Clark Finance in the South West event, taking place at Exeter Racecourse. The seminars feature short and to the point...
Cornwall Fund hits target
Small and medium sized businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have benefitted from £750,000 worth of investment via a loan fund delivered by SWIG Finance. 19 growing Cornish businesses have received investment from the fund which has now reached its investment...
Bristol Start Up: Up and running
Continuing our celebration of the £10 million Start Up Loans milestone, we spoke to Shawnika Sargent, who set up her sports therapy clinic, Up and Running in 2012 thanks to funding from SWIG Finance. The funding enabled her to buy equipment and open new premises on...