BGF, the UK and Ireland’s most active investor in growing businesses, is backing budding young entrepreneurs in the Yorkshire by supporting the Tenner Challenge, with the aim of nurturing entrepreneurialism from an early age. Over four-weeks, secondary and college students have been using £10 pledges to get their business ideas up and
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Low-cost gym chain pumps up plans for national rollout with BGF investment
The Business Growth Fund (BGF) has backed Xercise4Less, one of the UK’s leading low-cost gym chains with a £5m investment. Founded in 2006 by ex-rugby player and experienced industry operator Jon Wright, Xercise4Less currently has around 80,000 members and a successful chain of existing gym sites, predominantly located across the North of
Financial growth on breakfast menu
Access to growth finance was on the menu at a breakfast forum event in Leeds earlier this week. ‘Show Me The Money’, organised by business networking group Downtown Leeds in Business, brought together a panel of finance experts to advise a range of city businesses on alternative sources of funding in