Turn to the business section of any national paper, listen to media sources or look at business websites and you understand one of the major hurdles a business faces is ‘access to finance’ to start out or grow. But this problem does not end there – access to personal finance for business owners can cause…
With the release of Lord Young’s report this morning, Growing Your Business, a report on growing micro businesses, accompanied by a press release from BIS and the Prime Minister’s office entitled ‘Micro business boost will transform the economy’, Tina Boden and Tony Robinson OBE, co-founders of Enterprise Rockers, an independent community interest company launched in…
Since co-founding Enterprise Rockers, an independent community interest company working to make life better and fairer in micro business, a small amount of press and media, not enough of them if I am honest, have been keen to voice the opinion of those that employ 0 to 9 people through comments that either Tony Robinson…
Ask the right people Over the past month I have received a plethora of requests via social media or email to vote for various businesses whose owners, or directors, I have come in to contact with either this year or in years gone by but who I have had no trading experience with at all.…
If the title of this blog leaves you imagining a high street full of Harrison Fords then ladies of a certain age can calm down now and gentleman of the same age need not feel so threatened: when I refer to Indies I am actually referring to Independent Retailers! When Tony Robinson OBE; yes I…
At 5 feet 3 inches, or 1.60 metres if you work in metric, I should be used to feeling small so why then over the last 20 plus years of running my own businesses have I often felt like an inhabitant of Lilliput Land that has just seen Gulliver walk around the corner? In the…
