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How to grow your business: live webchat with Lord Young

Lord Young, the PM's special adviser on small business, will host a live webchat on Monday 13 May on how to grow a business.

From:
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
Published
10 May 2013
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The webchat coincides with the publication of Lord Young’s latest report Growing Your Business: a report which highlights help available to small and micro firms to develop their confidence and capability to grow.

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Lord Young will be joined by Simon Finch of Finch Installations, who recently secured a £9,000 Start-up Loan, and Anthony Lau, founder of Cyclehoop and 2009 winner of The Pitch, to discuss how business owners can grow a successful company.

Growing Your Business: A report on growing micro businesses

The report Growing your Business: A report on Growing Micro Businesses includes:

  • an update on the government’s Start-Up Loans programme
  • new developments to help growing small businesses such as the £30 million Growth Voucher programme
  • an enhanced role for business schools in their engagement with local small firms
  • further steps to open up public procurement to small suppliers
Published 10 May 2013