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Future fund backs UK startups with over £1bn investment As part of its coronavirus financial support measures, the UK government has invested over £1bn in early stage startups, in an effort to nurture the seeds of the UK’s economic recovery. by Alec Hawley Graphic via @rishisunak twitter You could be forgiven for not noticing the Future Fund. Alongside the tens of billions pumped into UK businesses struggling to survive in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic through the Bounce Back and Coronavirus Business Interruption loan schemes, the Future Fund generated few headlines and little ...

British Business Bank Publishes Data on Future Fund The British Business Bank has published Future Fund data on the 971 companies that have been approved for £975.5 million worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since launch last May. The Future Fund is designed to support early-stage ventures that typically do not have the capacity to borrow money as they generate losses. The UK government created the program so the entrepreneurial class, important for long term growth, was not devastated by the COVID-19 health crisis. Both Crowdcube and Seedrs have utilized the scheme to help raise capital ...

18 December 2020 Members of the Armed Forces will be deployed across Wales this winter to help set up and operate vaccination centres in the community. Secretary of State for Wales Simon Hart and the Defence Minister for the Armed Forces James Heappey have approved a Military Aid to the Civilian Authorities (MACA) request for the Welsh Government. The MACA provides more than 90 service personnel to support Wales’ Health Boards in rapidly establishing and operating vaccination centres. As the vaccination programme is rolled out during the rest of December and into January, military personnel...

Updated: Fri 18th Dec This article is old - Published: Friday, Dec 18th, 2020 Members of the Armed Forces will be deployed across Wales this winter to help set up and operate vaccination centres in the community. More than 90 service personnel will be to support Wales’ Health Boards in rapidly establishing and operating vaccination centres. As the vaccination programme is rolled out during the rest of December and into January, military personnel will support the setting up of additional capacity as greater quantities of vaccine are made available. 19 vaccination centres are being set up i...