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The £1m Co-Investment Loan Fund.

The Viking Loan Fund is part of a £5.0m package of measures announced by Yorkshire Forward in February 2009 to provide the region's businesses with working capital during the recession.

Co-Financed Investment

It will be lending a total of £1.0m in the form of unsecured loans alongside business angels investing their capital, management experience and expertise in existing companies in Yorkshire and Humber.

  • From £25,000 to £75,000
  • Unsecured loans
  • Co-financed with funds from Business Angels, whether equity or loan
  • Fixed interest and repayment package
Applicants will need to satisfy a number of conditions in order to be considered, namely:
  • Be based in Yorkshire and Humber
  • Be already established and trading, with a turnover of not more than £2.0m
  • To have a viable future
  • To employ between three and 50 people whose jobs are at immediate risk
  • Not operate in a ineligible or illegal trade
  • To have had credit facilities recently reduced or withdrawn by their bank
  • To have had an application for working capital recently turned down by a bank

If your company meets these criteria, The Viking Loan Fund may be able to help.

For further information and the full eligibility criteria please click here.

Ridings Holdings Limited, Trading as The Viking Loan Fund

Company registered in England & Wales No 05106293
Metic House | Ripley Drive | Normanton | West Yorkshire | UK WF6 1QT