Ecologi is dedicated to motivating and enabling businesses to expedite global climate action. Through Ecologi Zero, their carbon footprinting tool with Xero, customers can calculate emission and establish reduction objectives, while also funding tree planting and high quality carbon avoidance and removal projects.
They can share their impact dashboard encourage and inspiring others, and all of this is made possible through monthly Climate Action subscriptions, PAYG Impact shop, and Ecommerce API.
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£549,363
Energie is a fitness club franchise that over the last 13 years has built up a network of fitness centres in 93 locations, 5 countries and with over 110,000 club members. Their brand is based upon making membership affordable and accessible.
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£546,050
Kingdom is a natural space for families and friends to relax and unwind over a meal, a drink or a bike ride. The park is situated in Penshurst which is 35 miles from London, and includes 9500 square feet of event space and a 1.1 mile long road circuit coming soon. They aim to bring people together in nature, to help them revitalise, and reinvigorate in a beautiful 13 acre woodland setting.
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£376,171
Upside Down House (UDH) is a family-friendly attraction offering a zero-gravity illusion photo experience. It has venues in Brighton, Bristol, Essex, Manchester, and Great Yarmouth with more in the pipeline. The company asserts that its two-storey house structures, complete with furniture on the ceiling, allows guests to take surreal images of themselves hanging from the ceiling to share on social media. UDH witnessed a turnover of £1 million since the company's launch in November 2018. The company was chosen to exhibit at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland London over the 2019 Christmas period, which attracts around 2.5 million visitors per year. It has also received coverage in publications like BBC Breakfast, Today Show, The Daily Mirror, Ideal Home, BBC Radio Essex, and more. UDH will use 60% of the investment to procure new sites, 15% on marketing, and 25% to hire personnel.
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£100,406
A travel club and booking service offering a wide range of villas, boutique hotels and getaway experiences. Mr & Mrs Smith has over 1.5m members who have collectively made bookings valued at more than £60m in the last 12 months. The company generates income from commissions, which has resulted in revenues of £13m in 12 months up to 30 June 2018. They are now seeking to expand their travel collection and acquire US membership.
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£5,926,375
Pluto helps travellers by providing them with information regarding their destination trip, tips from fellow travellers, and the option of travelling with others via its app. The company has over 7,000 travellers on its portal. It has sold over £140,000 worth of travel insurance, ranked in the top 3 UK travel insurers on Trustpilot, and won 'Best Travel Insurance Provider' at the Insurance Choice Awards 2020. Pluto has also garnered a 4.9/5 rating on the App Store. The company has featured in press entities such as TechCrunch, BBC, Monocle, Which, Mashable, and InsuranceTimes. It has integrated and partnered with Booking.com. Pluto will use the investment in product development, grow its market share via product and paid channels, and launch its premium subscription product to boost revenue.
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£229,640
Kingwood-on-Thames Ltd is a company run by experienced businessman James Slater who is part of a truly enterprising family whose interests include amphibious tours in central London and the manufacture of amphibious machines. He’s spearheading the acquisition of River Thames Boat Hire Ltd – a riverboat charter company with an annual turnover of £100,000.
After extensive research, James has identified several areas of the Thames Boat Hire business which can be improved on. Having singled out each of the weaknesses, Kingwood-on-Thames will remodel the business to strengthen it from the bottom up, creating new partnerships, enhancing facilities and delivering additional marketing to initially increase the number of annual charters from 50 to 250 over four years. This represents a conservative 35% of the boats potential usage (the company has outlined 728 charters per annum as part of its forecasts).
It is expected this will take sales from £100,000 to £1.25m in 4 years.
A £300,000 equity deal for 25% of the company is available to investors. James himself will be investing £100,000 of the total amount alongside Funding Tree investors. You can join James as he endeavors to turn a steady, under-appreciated charter company into a more profitable, sought-after business.
Plans in brief:
- James will hire a dedicated, passionate manager to handle the business and take it from zero marketing to multiple marketing techniques and also drive the creation of new partnerships to increase brand awareness.
- A new website featuring efficient contact and booking systems is currently in development by Somerset Website Services. It will be launched in the next few weeks under the Kingwood-on-Thames Ltd (KTL) banner.
- New online advertising and increased social media activity and email marketing campaigns.
- The remodeling of the business to incorporate high value clients as well as standard clients.
This charter business has a unique selling point in its vessel’s historical significance. The Kingswood vessel was one of the 861 ‘little ships’ used for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in Operation Dynamo between 27 May and 4 June 1940. (www.adls.org.uk). The boat is in excellent condition having completed a maintenance check and survey in spring 2014 by Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
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£31,100
Licklist is a nightlife search engine that allows you to plan every aspect of your night out. Using the advanced search, you're able to locate friends and find the perfect venue. You're also able to purchase tickets for your favourite events, DJ's and festivals.
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£76,900
Central Plains Group (CPG) is a farming company with a vision to build an integrated zero-waste farming and processing operation to supply the rapidly expanding starch, bioplastics and plant protein markets globally. It aims to be a contender in the aforementioned markets that are expected to be worth more than $30 billion by 2026. CPG previously built and ran a large-scale farming operation in Eastern Europe for over 25 years, over 200,000 hectares of land and earning more than $250 million in profits. It aspires to take things further by promoting sustainable farming and contributing to the zero-waste bio-economy. CPG established its core feedstock farming platform in Ukraine achieving over £3 million worth of revenue with a net profit of £300,000 having supplied 11,000 tonnes of crisping potatoes to Pepsico and Ukraine Supermarkets. CPG will use the investment to actualise the construction of a 15 tonne/hour starch production facility powered by a green energy source.
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£3,031,685
Fizzbox is an online marketplace created to sell and organise group booking. This platform also offers customers benefits like free cancellation and booking with just 20% deposit. The company's website has a mission to become the world's largest event company that does not organize events. The company has completed over 1,626 bookings that resulted in £79,000 of commission and £478,000 of revenues in the first year of trading. With the proceeds, the company will complete application development, marketing, recruitment, and fund general working capital.
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