Government Grants
Ben Lobel
About
Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
Advice and Ideas for UK Small Businesses and SMEs
Ben Lobel was the editor of SmallBusiness.co.uk from 2010 to 2018. He specialises in writing for start-up and scale-up companies in the areas of finance, marketing and HR.
Government Grants
Economics student Zahra Charaffdeen received £2,500 in business funding from Accelerator, a specialist business incubator in East London. She talks to SmallBusiness.co.uk about the achievement.
Government Grants
Kent-based indoor family entertainment centre Bumble Beez received an interest-free loan of £30,000 in November from the Regional Growth Fund and also received grant assistance from Kent council. SmallBusiness.co.uk talks to founder Sarah Cannon about her funding experience.
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Small businesses owners are jeopardising the survival of their companies by failing to plan their own exit strategy.
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More than three fifths of managers have been expected to behave unethically at some point in their career, research finds.
Accounting
The proportion of small business claims for late payment that include compensation has risen over the last two years, research finds.
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The UK small business workforce is a nation of amateur DIY technicians despite a lack of formalised training, research finds.
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Ministers have pledged further backing for small businesses as one of its support schemes made its 5,000th loan to a young entrepreneur.
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Women and the over 50's are shunning entrepreneurship, preferring the reliability of employment instead, according to a survey.
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Business lending under the government's Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme has fallen for the second successive quarter, suggesting the initiative has failed in its mission to kick-start credit creation.
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The majority of shoppers think that improvements should be made to their local high street, research finds.
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A quarter of small business owners say that they regret starting up and would rather not go through the pain of growing a company again, research finds.
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Small business owners are being let down by legal services providers, being hit financially and emotionally, research finds.