Finance
Comprehensive financial help at the different stages of your business journey.
Accountancy, Tax, Financial & Corporate Advisory
- Our associates combine business advisory experience with expertise in accountancy, tax, corporate finance and risk evaluation.
- Managing accounting and tax aspects of your business is important.
- In most situations, working with a professional is best practice.
- They can ensure you are managing your financial and corporate affairs to required standards and in the best manner.
Foreign exchange (FX) money transfer
- Our associate partner will be able to assist with FX money transfers to/from the UK.
- They can assist you with managing currency exposure your business has as a result of any trading activities between the UK and overseas clients/suppliers.
- This includes processing worldwide payments for international businesses.
- FCF will be able to advise and support you in opening bank accounts in the UK.
R&D (Research and development)
- Our Associate Team provides a full-service R&D consultancy on a no win no fee basis.
- The R&D Tax Scheme can be transformational for companies of any size.
- It enables companies to reclaim as much as one third of their R&D spend through the company tax return.
- The scheme is available to UK companies subject to corporation tax.
- Eligible companies must be using science or technology as part of an innovative process/product.
Fund raising
- Our FCF Business Support Team search for and introduce to you the right potential investors.
- Using our comprehensive and extensive network of investing institutions and private UK and Overseas investors.
- Most of our private investors are looking to buy equity shares up to £200,000 each.
- Our experience and network of contacts provide assistance with seeking fund-raising from institutional or private investors.
- Fund raising covers potential loans or equity investment from as little as £50,000 through to £1 million-plus.
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)
- EIS is designed to help newly trading companies raise money by offering tax reliefs to individual investors who buy new shares in your company.
- SEIS allows you to receive a maximum of £150,000 in the 3 years up to and including the date of investment.
- EIS allows you to raise up to £5m each year, and a maximum of £12m in your company’s lifetime.
- This also includes amounts received from other venture capital schemes (i.e. funds raised from SEIS will contribute to this amount).
- There are various rules you must follow for both SEIS and EIS so your investors can claim and keep tax reliefs relating to their shares.
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FCF Alumni Members
Benefits include: regular correspondence, specific networking events for Alumni members and access to other Alumni members via our FCF Alumni directory.