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Business Finance Week: Small business champions: grow or start your business with CDFI finance

October 02, 2025

11:00 - 12:00

Zoom | Teams | Online

Responsible Finance

This webinar covers what CDFIs do, how businesses discover CDFIs and how businesses grow as a result of CDFI support.

CDFIs support viable businesses and social enterprises which are unable to access the finance they need from banks and other sources.

Their impact has been praised by businesses, organisations which represent them, advisors and politicians across parties. Last year they lent £141.6m to 5,825 small businesses and startups:

94% of the businesses which borrowed from CDFIs had previously been declined by another lender
98% were outside London
38% were women-led start-ups and businesses
20% were ethnic minority-led start-ups and businesses

Could CDFIs help your business? This webinar will enable you to learn what CDFIs do and explore whether they could help your business to achieve its ambitions.

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