As your small business grows, both your staff resources and their skillsets will also need to expand accordingly. This raises the dilemma of how much training you need to provide for your staff – and also for you! It is tempting to try and keep things running without any training at all. Other small businesses […]
On the 4th of March Fair Finance attended the annual Citi Micro Entrepreneurship Awards. We were nominated for the CDFI Growth award and we won! So why did we win? Fair Finance has grown substantially within the last 10 years. In 2005 we opened our first office, now we have 6, enabling us to reach […]
When looking for a new business loans the first thing that many business owners do is to check out a price comparison website. However, let the buyer beware, or as they say in Latin, “caveat emptor” – not all price comparison websites accurately reflect the costs each loan entails. There are various factors that can […]
One of our main aims is to help our clients escape the clutches of Payday Lenders, and Loan Sharks who charge extortionate rates of interest. Recently, Personal Loans officer Nikki was able to help client Andre (not his real name) come out of a dangerous cycle of payday loan usage. Andre, a full time factory […]
A recent Fair Business Loans UK blog referred to the TV series The Fixer, whose aim is not only entertaining its viewers, but also championing small businesses. That led us to consider some of the common reasons for why many small businesses end up failing, and in this post we want to share some common […]
Fair Business Loans has teamed up with Bootstrap Company & Real People for our second skills sharing and networking event for local businesses. Following on from the success of the last Let’s Do Business Together event, the 1st week of February saw Fair Business Loans and Bootstrap co-hosting the second event in the series. Set […]
2015 is still quite new and this means the inevitable flood of new TV series. One such is The Fixer, featuring Alex Polizzi, the “champion of small businesses”. The programme features a different small business each week that is in some way struggling. It is up to Alex to find fixes for a variety of […]
Now the New Year is well under way, it is easy for a small business to get overwhelmed by day to day operational issues and forget its New Year’s resolutions for business improvement in 2015. Just to give you some food for thought, and spur you into action, we’ve put together the following five tips […]
On Wednesday 15th October 2014, Fair Business Loans was delighted to co-launch a series of free business events called Let’s Do Business in collaboration with Bootstrap, another award winning social business supporting enterprises. In fact we recently helped Bootstrap themselves to finance their own future which you can read more about in our upcoming blog.
“So, this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
A new one just begun . . . “
RECOGNITION OF OUR VALUES
