Funding my business

Today we had a lecture with Ash Parmer from Fund My Venture. He chatted to us about different funding options for our business, many of which I'd not know about before. I was aware of arts council funding and the more traditional options such as bank loads and grants, but I hadn't heard of crowd funding or peer-to-peer lending. Crowd funding, such as kickstarter, may not be an option as there are terms and conditions, they're not always successful and you often have to give away products for donating, someething my business won't be large enough to supply. P2P sounds very interesting though and I will be doing some more research into this option should I need it.