Business Support and Finance

Support and financial grants

Nottingham City Council supports business growth, employment and investment in the city through our economic development service.

D2N2 Growth HubThere is a wide variety of business support available in Nottingham, from the D2N2 Growth Hub and from schemes that help you set up a business, find support with recruiting and training, financial grants, networking and business growth.

The Nottingham growth plan

The Nottingham Growth Plan, launched in July 2012, promotes job creation and economic growth in the city.

The Growth Plan sets out a series of measures for driving the economy forward. It is the fruit of a collaboration between some of the city's most senior public and private sector figures, based on solid academic research, good business sense and valuable consultation. It is ambitious butin a ledger (the blockchain) that is visible to all users, and ensuring for all transferred bitcoins that they haven't been previously spent.

Race attack 
If Eve offers to pay Alice a bitcoin in exchange for goods and signs a corresponding transaction, it is still possible that she also creates a different transaction at the same time sending the same bitcoin to Bob. By the rules, the network accepts only one of the transactions. This is called a race attack, since there is a race which transaction will be accepted first. Alice can reduce the risk of race attack stipulating that she will not deliver the goods until Eve's payment to Alice appears in the blockchain.

A variant race attack (which has been called a Finney attack by reference to