Anglia Ruskin University are offering £35,000 in funding to entrepreneurs living in Cambridge. Now in its second year, the Enterprise Fellowship Scheme is run by Anglia Ruskin’s Centre for Enterprise Development and Research (CEDAR) and is open to anyone in the county who has a bright business idea and is looking for financial backing.

Borro, the UK’s leading personal asset lender, have announced the launch of ‘Money Making Ideas’, a social media competition open to the nation’s small businesses and entrepreneurs looking to access finance to further develop their business. This is a response to a recent study that shows almost a quarter of SME owners (24%) say they have missed out on a growth opportunity due to a lack of accessible finance.

Gather and Throw's 'The Theory of Launch' is a fully comprehensive business and process book designed not only to help you make money, but to add equity to your brand and improve how you manage your business. Here is the second part of a bi-weekly offering of the books informative chapters.

Details about incentives to spur companies to innovate and grow, including £75 million of additional funding targeted at small and medium-sized businesses, have been published by the government.

A large majority of the angel investors and venture capitalists who took part in a Booz & Company study say they will not put their money in digital content intermediaries (DCIs) if governments pass tough new rules allowing websites to be sued or fined for pirated digital content posted by users. (DCIs are the companies that provide search, hosting, and distribution services for digital content such as YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud, eBay, and thousands of others.) More than 70 percent of angel investors reported they would be deterred from investing if anti-piracy regulations against "user uploaded" websites were increased.

UK companies are being invited to take part in a competition for funding for collaborative research and development projects that aim to develop and stimulate technology within the European Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) community.

£53billion has been lent to small businesses in Q2 this year but David Frost, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce says that this should not be the yardstick Britain measures it success by.

Tech City Launchpad, a funding competition that will see the Technology Strategy Board (www.innovateuk.org) invest £1 million to support the growth of creative and digital businesses working in the Tech City area around Old Street and Shoreditch in east London, opens today (6 May 2011).

A new scheme will offer funding to small companies to enable them to research and develop new products, processes and services that could stimulate economic growth.

As part of its four-year Building Performance Evaluation programme, the Technology Strategy Board is to fund fifteen more intensive environmental impact assessments of new developments, covering both domestic and non-domestic buildings.