Fund Your Business Your Way: Founder’s Guide to Equity

📝 Description:

This is the first day of our Funding Accelerator 2 day bootcamp. It helps you understand your growth goals and how to align them with the funding strategy that fits your business. It provides clarity on the funding landscape, tools to assess which options suit your stage of growth, and exercises to help you make confident decisions about what type of capital will help you move forward without compromising your vision.

Funding Accelerator programme is a 2 day intensive programme consisting of 6 expert‑led workshops. You may attend the full programme or join just one day, depending on your needs. The programme supports founders to match their growth ambitions with the right funding approach by providing structured learning, practical tools, and real examples.

📚 What to expect:

• A guided session to reconnect with your growth goals and define what success looks like for your business.
• An overview of the funding landscape and the types of funding available to businesses at different stages.
• Practical exercises to help you assess the compatibility of funding routes with your business model and ambition.
• An introduction to non‑dilutive funding and where it fits within the wider funding lifecycle.
• A breakdown of grants, competitions, crowdfunding, and other non‑equity routes.
• An introduction to debt funding and the different types available to founders.
• A breakdown of what lenders assess when reviewing applications.
• Real founder stories showing what worked, what did not work, and how others navigated their funding journey.
• A Growth Lab that helps you explore assumptions or limiting beliefs around funding, using structured coaching tools.

👥 Why attend:

• Gain clarity on the full spectrum of funding options available to your business.
• Understand the risks linked to misaligned funding and learn how to avoid them.
• Understand how to access funding without giving up equity.
• Gain insight into a wide range of non‑dilutive funding sources.
• Understand how debt funding can support your growth without giving up ownership.
• Gain clarity on lender expectations and how to prepare your business for borrowing.
• Learn how to assess the risks and benefits of different debt options.
• Build confidence in deciding whether debt is the right route for your business.
• Leave with a stronger sense of your long‑term goals and the funding that aligns with them.
• Access practical tools that support confident decision making.
• Join a community of founders who are also building funding confidence and exploring growth opportunities.

🗣️ Our guest speakers on day one include:

TBC + NatWest Bank and successful community examples.

Thanks to BIPC for their generous provision of the venue and to the team at EnSpire for their powerful partnership and support as part of our joint commitment to Equinox.

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