Social Investment Business funding for social enterprises
Social Investment Business grant and blended finance programmes
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Runs a rotating set of grant, loan and blended finance programmes for charities and social enterprises on behalf of government and foundations. Amounts differ by programme, from small capacity-building grants to multi-hundred-thousand-pound loans.
The Social Investment Business Foundation
private · national
Deadline: annual_call — Individual programmes open and close on their own timetables; several are time-limited and close when the fund is fully committed.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: social
- Stage: seed, series_a, growth
- Locally registered entity required
UK charities, social enterprises and community businesses; some programmes are restricted to England only.
Source. https://www.sibgroup.org.uk/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked