small business funding

Growing Your Business

At Fair Business Loans we are always looking out for straightforward business advice to pass on to our small business loans UK clients. We were therefore delighted to come across a new guide “Growing Your Business” from Gov UK. It contains eight main points which we summarise below, but do

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Boosting the Living Standards of the Self-Employed

At Fair Business Loans we were very interested in a recent report by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). The aim of the RSA is to encourage opportunities for people to channel their creativity, to create both fulfilling lives for them and a flourishing

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Employing staff for the first time

At Fair Business Loans we are passionate not only about providing small business loans UK but also about equipping small business owners with the knowledge and skills they need to make business work. We are involved in regular events called ‘Let’s Do Business Together’ that focus on issues of critical

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Online tools for small businesses

So, your business is growing and you have great plans for the future! Now it’s time to make it happen! At Fair Business Loans we always base our small business loan decisions not only on the financial position of the business but also on how much confidence we have in

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Work Smarter not Harder!

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

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Does Your Business Need ‘The Fixer’?

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

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A Christmas Carol

At this time of year the usual repertoire of Christmas songs, films, shows and stories does the rounds once again. One of the old classics is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The story starts off with the central character, Ebenezer Scrooge. Scrooge is described as “a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,

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