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General Export Facility (UK Export Finance)

General Export Facility (GEF)

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
£25,000,000

Partial UKEF guarantees to banks so UK exporters can access trade finance (trade loans, bonds, letters of credit) with repayment terms of up to 5 years. Facilities up to around GBP 25 million; banks hold delegated authority of up to GBP 10 million per exporter. No individual export contract has to be evidenced.

Funder

UK Export Finance

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Continuous through participating lenders.

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Exporter must declare at least 20% of annual turnover from UK export sales in any one of the last three financial years, or at least 5% in each of the last three; have UK premises and employees; pay UK or Isle of Man/Channel Islands National Insurance or Corporation Tax. Sixteen participating lenders are listed on the page.

How to apply

  1. Discuss a potential GEF application with your bank or another participating lender.
  2. Lender applies the UKEF guarantee under delegated authority where the criteria are met. — link

What you will need

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/general-export-facility

"Our General Export Facility (GEF) provides partial guarantees to banks to help UK exporters to gain access to trade finance facilities. GEF is able to support facilities valued up to around £25 million."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.gov.uk

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