East Midlands Development Agency

Solutions for Business is a suite of highly targeted, publicly funded products and services offering solutions to real business needs and tackling market failure.

Designed to drive qualifying businesses forward, it helps them to grow and succeed by providing help in a number of areas. These include starting up, understanding finance, developing people, environment and efficiency, exploiting ideas, international sales and marketing and growing your business.

Solutions for Business helps you make the most of business opportunities and challenges. By targeting public money at real business needs, it helps businesses create sustainable success.

GBI (formerly known as Selective Finance for Investment in England or SFIE grants) makes discretionary grants available from Government (the Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – BERR) to support businesses with investment projects which will increase productivity, skills and employment in deprived areas in England.

The grants are managed by the Regional Development Agencies.

Click here for the GBI minisite which has all the information you need.