The Best Small Commercial Finance Broker in UK! I am delighted that in our 10th anniversary year Lime Consultancy have been recognised as ‘Sole Trader of the Year 2022’. The NACFB are the leading body representing and overseeing the commercial finance intermediary sector, to be recognised as the best among our peers is an amazing
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What Are Growth Vouchers The Government have several initiatives aimed at helping small businesses succeed. There is a real recognition by Government that small businesses need support, the surprising thing to many is just how many schemes there are available. Growth vouchers are available to most businesses in England and offer up to £2,000 of
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Having a poor credit record does not mean that you cannot raise finance for your business, what it means is that your options will be less and you may pay more. The second part to this is that you need to know why you have a poor credit record and take action to put it
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We have been involved with the government supported start-up loans scheme for a short while now and are delighted that our first mentored business has successfully raised finance through the scheme! Now, we all like to take credit for things but in this case our involvement was slight, but we it proved to be the
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The Unique Selling Point (USP) is just about the only thing that will differentiate you from your competitors. The difficult thing is in finding your USP, it is not always where you think it is, often it is a thing of marginal fiction, made up, created, dreamed up to make your business that little bit
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NACFB Code Of Practice Details We are full members of the NACFB. The National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) provide self regulation, continued professional development (CPD) and guidance to ensure it’s members are aware of legal and regulatory changes. The NACFB also provide a complaints procedure which gives the client an ability to raise
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We are often asked why it takes so long to get a decision on a business loan application. The bottom line is that bankers and entrepreneurs are fundamentally different people, what may be an absolute priority to you probably isn’t to your banker. Whichever way you look at it, you are not going to change
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We picked up a really interesting article about RBS and their willingness to lend to UK businesses, the article was based around a Sunday Times interview with RBS chairman Stephen Hester. The BBC article can be accessed here. Part of the interview quote was “We are lending as much as we can….we cannot force companies
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