Business loans
If you have a vision, a business loan could help make it a reality. We take a flexible and responsible approach to lending. Share your ideas, and we’ll help you choose what you can afford to borrow and how long you need to repay it.
Summary
We’ve supported Charities and Businesses for over 130 years and we prioritise business lending to organisations that deliver positive social impact, so you’ll be joining a group of like-minded people.
We will prioritise our business lending to those organisations in the UK that deliver positive social impact. We can provide competitively priced loans and commercial mortgages on terms up to 25 years.
We can lend for business expansion and working capital in the following sectors:
- Health and Social Care
- Social Housing
- Social Enterprises
- Education
- Faith Organisations; Churches, Religious Orders
- Charities
- Community, Arts, Heritage, Sports
- SME sectors
Please see Important Information Regarding Business Loan Support in the section named “Support during the Covid-19 pandemic”.
Business Loans
- Term loans
- Lending from £250k to £2.5m
- Repayment term up to 25 years with 5 year commitment
- Typically up to a maximum of 65% loan to security value
What we offer
- Term loans
- Lending from £250k to £2.5m
- Repayment term up to 25 years with 5 year commitment
- Typically up to a maximum of 65% loan to security value
- Tailored loan pricing on a case by case basis
- Simple application process and fast decisions
- Early indication of our appetite to lend
- Tailored solution to suit your businesses unique requirements
- You’ll have a named relationship manager to contact directly when you need to speak to someone. They’ll understand your organisation, and the challenges you face.
- Early indication of our appetite to lend
- Tailored loan pricing on a case by case basis
Apply
1) Read our key documents
2) Complete our Business Account Opening Form
3) We’ll assess your application
4) We’ll set up your account
Read our key documents
1) Business Loans (IIS) Important Information Summary Form
Complete our Business Account Opening Form and Business Mandate Form
Complete our Business Account Opening Form and refer to What you need to open a business account and complete our Business Mandate Form. Both our Business Account Opening Form and our Business Mandate Form are paper based forms, so please print them out and complete them and send them to us at:
Reliance Bank, Faith House, 23-24 Lovat Lane, London EC3R 8EB.
We’ll assess your application
- One of Relationship Directors will contact you to discuss your request
- We will undertake a Credit check on the Business and its Officials
- Interest, fees, charges and due diligence costs will be agreed on an
individual basis. Read our Business banking lending tariff for more
information.
We’ll set up your account
If your application is successful, we’ll set up your account and send you a welcome pack.
Important Information Regarding Business Loan Support
If you are struggling with your business commitments because of COVID-19 you may want to consider if the Bank could support you with a loan repayment holiday or additional loan facility.
We are offering affected business customers the opportunity to contact the Commercial department via email on commercial@reliancebankltd.com and would ask you to provide us with a background as to your circumstances, together with the following:
- Business name and post code
- Best contact telephone number
- Some brief details on your specific circumstance
We will review each case to establish how best we can support you during these challenging times.
Reliance Bank is presently unable to be part of the Government support schemes, if we are unable to support you directly, please follow the link below for more information on the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) that launched on 6 April 2021. The Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) provides financial support to businesses across the UK as they recover and grow following the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/ourpartners/recovery-loan-schem…
Remember we are here for you. As the situation in the UK changes we’ll continue to look at what we can do to support you and will be regularly updating our website on key changes.
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