Deadline: 25 May 2025
NatWest Accelerator has been helping businesses get going and growing for 10 years. To celebrate, they’re launching NatWest Accelerator Pitch with a total prize pot of £1m to be given out over a series of competitions throughout 2025 and beyond.
The prize pot for the first competition is £100k and they want to hear you pitch:
- your successes so far and
- your plans for growth.
Have you got brilliant ideas and a burning passion to grow your business? Yes? Then it sounds like you’re ready to enter!
To enter, send them a 60-second video telling them how the funding will grow your business. Their judges will select 5 Finalists to attend their first live final in Manchester on the 31 July 2025. At the live events, the Finalists will deliver their best ‘Dragon’s Den-style’ pitches.
Funding Information
- The three winners of NatWest Accelerator Pitch at each live final will walk away with…
- 1st place – £70,000
- 2nd place – £20,000
- 3rd place – £10,000
- Monetary prizes will be in the form of a grant, paid by BACS transfer, which will take between two-to-three working days to be received in the winners accounts.
- This is subject to winners providing their full business account name, account number and sort code. Winners will have three months to spend the money. Following the payment, their grants monitoring officer will reach out on months three, six and twelve to check in on how the grant has impacted business.
Eligibility Criteria
- You’ll need to be:
- a registered limited company
- registered in the UK
- generating up to £1m revenue
- a business that started trading between 1 January 2019 and 1 January 2024
- 18 or over and a UK resident (as a business owner)
Ineligibility Criteria
- You must not be an employee of NatWest Group of companies, their families or anyone associated with this competition.
For more information, visit National Westminster Bank.
