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Fit for finance! Hyrox centre gets growth funding through Orca

Hyrox fitness classes are massive in the UK, and are growing more and more popular. And we were delighted to support two up and coming entrepreneurs with their dream to build a top class facility in their hometown of Lea, Preston. Freddie Mason and Lewis Fensome approached Orca as they wanted to expand and grow […]

Echo makes a splash at Rush Hour

Rob, Marc and Echo had a whale of a time at the latest Rush Hour Expo and networking event at Crow Wood Hotel. Which was your favourite picture? See https://www.linkedin.com/company/orcafinance

LCM chooses Orca to support fleet growth

Padiham based LCM Environmental Services has selected Orca Finance to facilitate finance to support its commercial fleet growth. Award winning LCM, who specialise in fuel, energy, and infrastructure projects across Europe, have grown both organically and through acquisition over the past few years and competitive, on demand funding availability is crucial to their growth strategy. […]

New Ambassador for Lancs Community Foundation

Lancashire Investors in Community and Community Foundation Lancashire are very happy to announce the appointment of our new Ambassador, Marc McLoughlin We are excited to be welcoming Marc to join us alongside co-founder of Lancashire Investors in Community and Ambassador Edwin Booth CBE DL and LIiC Ambassador Ram Gupta BCAe. In Marc’s own words…. “I […]

Growth and asset funding for Burnley based LBS

We were delighted to support Burnley based LBS not once but twice this year with vital funding to help them grow their business. LBS, founded back in 2004 by Chris Bradbury, are experts in bespoke sheet metal work and offer a wide range of quality finished products. With ambitious growth plans for 2025 including recruitment, […]

Making it in Lancashire with ELCC

We are Thrilled to be back speaking at an event with the East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce at “Making it in Lancashire” hosted by E+R Group (Emerson and Renwick Ltd.) on the 21st November, sponsored by TurnKey Corporate. These events are for our Lancashire based makers, innovators, manufacturers and engineers – of which we have […]

Productivity up 400% with Orca funding for Scandi

I met Rachael Wallis from Scandi Workwear at BNI Infinity a couple of months ago just a few weeks after launching Orca. We were talking about finance and business and she explained that she had ordered a new machine from Hobkirk Sewing Machines Ltd and was yet to arrange the finance and could I help. […]

Rob Cassidy joins The Pod

We are delighted to announce our first new team member in the shape of Rob Cassidy. Rob and Marc have known each other for many years and worked together at both KeyFleet and Greenarc where Rob had responsibilities in marketing, business development and sales. Rob, who hails from Whalley, will be building on his previous […]

Back at Brockhall

The boys are back in town! Or should we say, village? Orca needed a base, and what better location than Brockhall Village – a location more than familiar to our team after three happy years in The Conference Centre with the previous businesses. Marc commented, “Brockhall is an awesome location and I had no doubt […]

Orca joins the East Lancs Chamber

“If you want to do business in Lancashire, you have to get involved with the East Lancs Chamber” – these were the sentiments of Orca founder Marc McLoughlin upon signing up once more with the guys from Red Rose Court. ELCC is one of over 50 regional Chambers dedicated to supporting businesses with growth, funding, […]