Pitch your business and you could win a share of £1m

After a decade getting behind UK businesses, NatWest Accelerator is aiming to help even more to increase their sales, secure funding and improve their leadership skills in 2025. Your business could enjoy practical tools, expert support, and join a helpful community – through our new digital network.

For 10 years, NatWest Accelerator has been helping businesses get going and get growing. To celebrate this milestone, we’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 we want to hear you pitch your success and your plans for growth.

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Enter the NatWest Accelerator Pitch Competition

Before you begin, in order to successfully submit your entry to the competition your business must meet the following criteria:

  1. Your business must be a registered limited company

  2. Your business must be registered in the UK

  3. Your business must generate up to £1M in revenue

  4. Your business must have started trading between 1st January 2019 and 1st January 2024

  5. You as business owner must be 18 or over and a UK resident

  6. You can be a customer or non-customer of NatWest Group

  7. You must not be an employee of NatWest Group of companies, their families, or anyone associated with this competition

You will also need the following:

  • Your pre-recorded 60-second video

  • Company details, including date your business was founded, numbers of employees and business revenue for 2023 and 2024

  • Either pre-written answers or notes to answer the following questions

    • Give us a brief overview of your business and why you’d like funding (300 words limit)

    • Tell us about your key successes as a business so far (300 words limit)

    • How would you use the prize money to grow your business? (500 words limit)

    • What makes your business unique and why should you win? (300 words limit)

Step 1

To start your application, please provide your company registration number: