About Davenham

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About Davenham - Our positive approach

Davenham Group plc is a leading specialist commercial finance company that lends to UK SMEs who choose not to, or cannot access, mainstream clearing bank funding. Established in 1991 in Manchester, Davenham has offices in Manchester (HQ), Leeds, Birmingham, London and Manor Credit based in Elland.

Our aim is to provide commercially viable funding by developing a genuine understanding of each customer's individual needs.

We do this by adopting a flexible approach combined with speed of reaction and delivery. We believe this entrepreneurial and commercial outlook is the key to ongoing success in providing fast, flexible finance and funding solutions.

Companies within the expanding base of UK SMEs are often the more entrepreneurial growing businesses undergoing development and change. Davenham lends to these businesses against the security of their assets, thereby fulfilling the needs of an attractive and sizeable niche market.

It is Davenham's expertise, experience and specialist risk skills, that provides the Group's competitive advantage and strong track record.

Davenham is a knowledge based business which continues to invest in its staff and their skills.

Davenham's clear strategy and proven execution has led to consistent growth in profits over many years, as well as generous support from its banking group.

Davenham's vision is to become the most valuable and competitive business in its sector, delivering real added value products to its customers, enabling its staff to successfully develop their careers and becoming the most successful brand in the area of SME finance.

Davenham Values

At Davenham our customers can be sure that we will deliver an excellent standard of service, upheld by every aspect of our core values, which we are committed to implementing throughout the business. 

Flexible - our flexible approach enables Davenham to offer tailor made solutions to meet our customers' specific funding requirements, which we understand is key in a constantly changing environment.

Positive “can do” Attitude - unlike many finance companies in the marketplace, Davenham start by wanting to say "yes".  Applying a positive approach and wanting to do the deal, we endeavour to provide a solution and put our customers at ease. 

Integrity - by acting with integrity, we can develop a successful working relationship based upon honesty and trust so our client’s know where they stand, from initial enquiry all the way through to a deal being approved.  

Accessible - with national coverage, Davenham appreciate the importance of local knowledge coupled with the resources of a national company. 

Commercially Minded - being a business ourselves, we understand the challenges operating in the marketplace.  We use this knowledge to our customers advantage; applying an entrepreneurial approach and delivering innovative products.

Customer Orientated - Davenham are committed to complete customer focus, and maintaining an excellent relationship through our growing team of customer relationship managers.  We endeavour to understand a client’s business and work with them every step of the way. 

Positioning Statement

"Davenham will stay true to its own highly entrepreneurial roots as a business. It will succeed by achieving a deeper, more emphatic understanding of the finance needs of SME businesses, enabling it to take a rounded commercial view in developing and providing ever more flexible, tailor made and innovative funding solutions - fast."