Growth Voucher Approved We are delighted to have been vetted and approved as a Government Approved Growth Voucher advisor. This means that if you are looking for any of the following, then the Government will provide up to £2,000 of match funding through the Growth Voucher scheme; Loan Finance Cash Flow Finance Mortgage Finance Growth
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New Business Ideas The small business has one advantage over it’s large corporate cousins. It can adapt, be innovative and apply those innovations at short notice. This flexibility and adaptability is the USP the small business has, after all small businesses are built on the ability to meet a gap in the supply/demand chain. Small
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Bank of England base rate has stood at an all time low since 2009. So are you ready for rates to go up? The base rate of interest drives borrowing costs. Whether you are borrowing on a base rate linked loan or any other APR driven loan, your costs will rise when base rate does.
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Bridging Finance Back in the early 1990’s bridging finance was a popular way of financing house purchases, of bridging the gap between purchase and sale. From the late 1990’s onwards the residential bridging market became less popular, with lenders only looking at ‘closed’ bridging finance, in other words where contracts had already been exchanged. In
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Be The Business A new scheme has been launched by West Sussex County Council offering grants to those wanting to start a business, grow locally, or take on higher apprentices. It is about providing support to the ambitious and innovative businesses in the region. The £850,000 scheme has been commissioned by West Sussex County Council
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Loans For Business We hear enough about government initiatives and schemes to make banks lend more to the small business. However we never really seem to see a great shift in delivery or genuine desire to lend to the SME sector. There are often good reasons why loans for business are declined, refused, knocked back
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There is a lot of talk about government support for small business, lots of rhetoric around government finance support and initiatives. There is also a lot of cynicism surrounding the subject, which is also well founded. The challenge for most small businesses is that they cannot find, or do not know where to find government
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We have talked about how your personal credit rating works in a previous post, now we look at how your personal credit rating can impact, or hurt your business. Business Products We all need third party products to make our business work. Sometimes these are time saving or convenience products, sometimes they are 100% key
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