Granton Finance Est. 1955 · Chartered
Commercial finance · Chartered

Company finance, arranged by a chartered accountant.

Most brokers can only tell you whether they can get a yes. We tell you whether you should borrow, what you can afford, and how to structure it so the deal actually completes.

Led by an ACMA CGMA chartered accountant Backed by a family company since 1955 Whole-of-market lenders Advice, not a sales pitch
The difference

An adviser who arranges finance — not a broker chasing commission.

“I'm a chartered accountant. I read your numbers properly and tell you the truth — including when the answer is don't borrow.

Most commercial finance brokers are salespeople who learned finance. We're the other way round: a chartered management accountant and finance director who happens to arrange funding.

That matters when you're borrowing to buy a business, fund a buyout or take over from a retiring owner — deals that need structuring, not just a lender who says yes. We look at whether the numbers work, what you can service, and how to shape the facility so it completes and doesn't come back to bite you.

We're paid a commission by the lender, and we'll always tell you what it is, in writing, before you commit. No surprises — that's rather the point.

What we arrange

Finance for the moments that decide a company's future.

Our focus is the structuring-heavy deals where a chartered accountant's judgement earns its place — though we arrange the everyday facilities too.

SPECIALISM

Acquisition & buyout finance

Buying a business, a management buyout, or buying out a co-director. The funding is only half the job — how it's structured decides whether it works.

SPECIALISM

Succession finance

Taking over from a retiring owner, or passing a business on. We model it, fund it, and keep the numbers honest.

ASSET

Asset & equipment finance

Machinery, vehicles and equipment — funded so cash stays in the business, not tied up in kit.

CASHFLOW

Invoice finance

Release the cash locked in your unpaid invoices, matched to the right facility for how you actually trade.

PROPERTY

Commercial mortgages

Buying premises, refinancing, or funding development — arranged with the standing lenders take seriously.

WORKING CAPITAL

Business loans

Unsecured funding for growth or working capital — but only where borrowing is genuinely the right call for you.

Our history

Seventy-one years of standing behind our word.

1955

Founded by four brothers on the death of their grandfather — an agricultural and haulage company at Spaldwick.

1980s

The haulage side wound down; the company continued as a land-based agricultural business.

Today

A family company with seven decades of trading standing behind everything we arrange.

Next

A deliberate revival — bringing a chartered accountant's judgement to the finance decisions that shape other family businesses.

Granton Finance is the commercial-finance arm of a company that has been trusted with its word since 1955. When we say a deal is right — or that it isn't — that reputation is what stands behind it.

How it works

A conversation first — never an application form.

1

We talk it through

Tell us what you're trying to do. We'll tell you honestly what's realistically fundable, roughly on what terms — and whether borrowing is even the right move.

2

We structure & place it

If it stacks up, we shape the facility and take it to the lenders most likely to say yes on the right terms — handling the numbers and the paperwork.

3

You decide, we complete

You see exactly what's on the table, including what we're paid. If you go ahead, we see it through to drawdown.

Talk to us

Thinking about a deal? Start with an honest conversation.

No obligation, no application form. Tell us what you're weighing up and we'll tell you, straight, what's possible — and whether it's a good idea.