In our last post, we mentioned the Access to Finance seminar Anne attended at Aston Science Park. Given the huge finance/funding issues facing the business community now that the banks are playing 'hard to get', it will come as no surprise that this event was full to capacity. Amongst the attendees and presenters were Advantage West Midlands, ART Reinvestment Trust, Business Link, Barclays and Midlands Connect.
One of the messages was that 'small' businesses in particular, need to be much better organised, be better planned, be better presented, be more professional, understand the meaning behind the numbers and generally manage their businesses better.
Patrick Palmer, Head of Access to Finance at Advantage West Midlands gave an excellent presentation entitled "Access to Finance: Where is the money?" which was choc-ful of information about "sources of finance for a range of circumstances (even when the bank says “no”!)"
Steve Walker, Chief Executive, Aston Reinvestment Trust (ART) addressed "Accessing Finance: Alternative Sources of Finance." and again his presentation provided an invaluable breakdown of alternative funding sources along with information about who's lending how much and what investors and lenders are looking for.
So why are we telling you this AFTER the event? Well, we've managed to obtain copies of both of these presentations (in pdf formats) so we can share them with you! All you need to do to access BOTH presentations, is join our VIP OFFERS list. Simply enter your email into the form at the top right of the site and click on the JOIN button. Then early next week, we will email you a link to a 'secret' download area for VIPs only. Go on then... you've got until Friday lunchtime (13th Feb) to sign up for this particular VIP OFFER.
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