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Fair Business Loans are delighted to announce that we have recently been added to the Alternative Business Funding website. Alternative Business Funding features a growing collective of lenders of unsecured business loans who are pooling together to provide a broad range of options to UK businesses who have been unable to access traditional mainstream finance. […]

Here we are in September and “Back to School” is happening all around us. If you’re anything like us at Fair Business Loans UK, you can still remember the feeling of combined anticipation and anxiety that this time can bring, but also the sense that it is a chance for a new start. Does your […]

In our last blog we looked at Top 5 Tips for Entrepreneurial Success. One of these was the importance of keeping customers at the forefront of everything that you do and engaging with them at all the different stages of their relationship with you. In these days of digital marketing, there are many different ways […]

In this article we take break from talking about our affordable loans for small business and instead have a quick look at the topic of entrepreneurship and what supposedly makes a good entrepreneur. If it is true that being a successful entrepreneur is a lifestyle choice, not a destination, then what are the characteristics that […]

As we move into August there is that early morning chill in the air and with it the sense that a seasonal change is preparing to take place. Come September and both these increase until it begins to feel positively autumnal. Of course the other major change in September is that children go back to […]

Dragons Den is once more gracing our screens on Sunday evenings, this time with three new dragons – Nick Jenkins, Sarah Willingham and Touker Suleyman – joining the two remaining original dragons Deborah Meaden and Peter Jones. The aim is for entrepreneurs to pitch their business idea to the dragons, in the hope of gaining […]

In a recent blog we featured the potential benefits to small businesses outlined in the Queen’s Speech. But what did the recent budget deliver for small businesses? Let’s take a quick look! First the good news! There are three changes that will be of benefit to most small businesses: The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) – […]

So, your business is booming and you are working every hour God sends? In our last business loans UK blog we looked at some of the changes that could potentially help small businesses. Many of these are legislative and are out of our hands. But one thing that we can take control of is the […]

In April 2005, Fair Finance opened its doors as a social business on a council estate in the heart of East London’s Stepney. Fast forward 10 years and we are now a thriving business offering a range of financial products and services designed to meet the needs of people and businesses. We aim to revolutionise […]

In February we ran a blog entitled Does Your Business Need The Fixer which referred to the BBC 2 programme called The Fixer. In this programme hotelier Alex Polizzi spends time in a struggling small business to make recommendations as to how it could be improved. In a recent interview with The Radio Times, Polizzi […]