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France Active: financing and securing impact-driven entrepreneurial projects
Discover France Active's guarantees, loans and financing solutions for creating, taking over or developing a business or an SSE organisation. Check the conditions with your local network.
Understanding France Active
France Active supports entrepreneurs, associations and social and solidarity economy organisations in structuring their project and securing funding. Its network offers bank guarantee solutions, solidarity financing and investments depending on the nature of the project and the territory.
The main solutions
The solutions may include bank loan guarantees, participative or affordable-rate loans, personal loans, targeted bonuses, association contributions and solidarity investments. The guarantee benefits the lending bank: it is not a grant paid directly to the business.
Who can be concerned?
Depending on the scheme: business founders or buyers, heads of micro-enterprises, associations, cooperatives and SSE businesses, projects with social or environmental value, entrepreneurs facing barriers to credit access, priority groups, and projects located in certain territories.
What needs can be financed?
Depending on the solution: investments, working capital needs, creation or takeover, development, strengthening equity, or scaling up. Some forms of financing require a complementary bank loan or an overall financing plan.
How do you get started?
Contact the local France Active association, prepare the financing plan and financial documents, then have the project reviewed by the local team. Any intervention depends on the review of the application, the applicable criteria, and a funding decision.
Frequently asked questions
Does France Active only offer grants? No: its tools include in particular guarantees, loans, association contributions, investments and certain targeted bonuses. Is the bank guarantee paid to the business? No, it secures the lending bank. Are the criteria the same everywhere? No, they vary depending on the product and sometimes on the territory.
Official sources
- Solidarity financing — France Active
- Solutions and programmes — France Active
- Bank guarantees — France Active
- Financial companies — France Active
- 2025 Impact report — France Active
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Grants linked to France Active
Fonds de garantie France Active
France Active, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Up to €200,000
France Active Investissement (FAI)
Financeurs privés, France Active
Up to €500,000
Garantie EGALITE Femmes
France Active, Ministère chargé de l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes et de la lutte contre les discriminations
Up to €50,000
Garanties France Active
France Active
Up to €100,000
Pacte création - Prime pour les moins de 30 ans
France Active
Up to €1,000
Pacte Emergence
France Active
Pays de la Loire Artisans Transition
France Active, Région Pays de la Loire
Up to €50,000
Prêt d'honneur Croissance Initiactive 95-78
Bpifrance, CA Carnelle Pays de France, CA de Cergy Pontoise, CA Plaine Vallée, CA Roissy Pays de France, CA Val Parisis, CC du Haut Val d'Oise, CC du Vexin Centre, CCI Paris Région Ile-de-France, Département 78 - Yvelines, Département 95 - Val-d'Oise, État, Financeurs privés, France Active, Région Ile-de-France, Union Européenne-FSE
Up to €75,000
Prêt d'honneur Initiactive 95 -78
Bpifrance, CA Carnelle Pays de France, CA de Cergy Pontoise, CA Plaine Vallée, CA Roissy Pays de France, CA Val Parisis, CC du Haut Val d'Oise, CC du Vexin Centre, Département 78 - Yvelines, Département 95 - Val-d'Oise, État, Financeurs privés, France Active, Région Ile-de-France, Union Européenne-FSE
Up to €25,000
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