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Our story
About Acorn.finance
Founded in 1997 by father and son team Tom and Paul Thompson, Acorn Finance have long been one of the leading finance brokers in the small business and property sectors.
We’re a multi-award winning team with seven “best UK broker” awards in the last six years and have been featured on the BBC Inside Out programme to show best practice in the commercial lending sector.
Acorn’s specialist knowledge of small businesses marked us out as the “go to” broker for any trading business but especially those in the hospitality sector which resulted in Acorn Commercial Finance becoming the only finance provider asked to join the BIIAB (British Institute of Innkeeping Advisory Board).
We work harder to find the funding you need to thrive
Business Moneyfacts Commercial Mortgage Broker of the Year
Acorn.finance (Acorn Commercial Finance previously) have been funding commercial and investment property since 1997.
As a small business just like you, the Acorn.finance team understands the needs and time pressures of the buy to let property investor, developer or business owner.
Our mission is to give every business owner, property investor or developer access to the finance they need to thrive and grow. In a broad and fragmented market with more lending sources than ever, it is no longer an option to rely on the products of just one lender for the life of a business, lenders are many and varied. Our role is to help you find the very best funding package to fill your needs, and to have the funding available to you, just when you need it. To do that we work across the whole of the finance market, from the high street banks and challenger banks through to crowdfunding providers (including our own) and sometimes private equity and businesses angel investors.
Whether you are growing your business or investment portfolio or just starting out then finance is of vital importance and getting the best deal can easily be the difference between growing or not or even failure. Our experts take time to understand your needs and aims in both the long and short term before recommending a product to you which we believe is the best one to achieve your aims. By taking that time to understand your needs we also work more closely with our lenders than most brokers, that means we have a market leading level of success with more applications going through to a successful completion and more of our clients go on to long-term success.
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Small busineses in the developing world helped by Acorn.finance
Having spent over twenty-one years funding businesses across the UK and Europe here at Acorn.finance we’re justifiably proud of the number of businesses which have grown through our work. We believe that allowing small businesses to grow helps them to employ more, spend more and invest more. All of this builds local economies which build the national economy.
Small businesses contribute 51% of all private sector trade in the UK. We believe that the power of small business can change the developing world.
As part of our twentieth-year celebrations we committed to helping small businesses in the developing world and so far have provided loan funds, from our profits for 89 small businesses in Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Indonesia. With your help, we can do more.
Zidisha has supported more than 138,000 individual projects across the developing world and lent more than $14m. Every loan helps a small business or community to alleviate poverty.
Join Zidisha here and receive a $25 credit to lend to the project of your choice.
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With your help we’ll fund 1,000 small businesses in the developing world.
I got the best deal and the best service
Jillie Stross – past and future Acorn.finance customer
