Our Impact

What do we do?  

Many smaller businesses are unable to access the finance they need due to structural failures or barriers in smaller business financing markets. At the British Business Bank, we are making finance markets work better for smaller businesses.  

• Our Investment business – increases the availability of equity finance by backing funds and investing directly into companies.  
• Our Banking business – increases the availability of debt finance through loans and guarantees.  

How we support UK growth 

• Backing small businesses in every Nation and region
• Supporting new businesses to start up  
• Helping under-represented founders and owners  
• Investing in the UK’s most promising high-growth science and technology companies in the Industrial Strategy sectors
• Being a catalyst for pensions funds and other institutional investors to invest in venture capital

Our work has a measurable impact on the UK economy, helping to support businesses, creating jobs, and delivering growth.

We have a mainly commercial approach that delivers a return for taxpayers alongside wider economic benefits.

Our work also helps to build the UK’s small business financing markets, unlocking private investment and building deeper pools of domestic capital for UK companies.