Start-up businesses focused on health, fitness and wellbeing are dominating the early-stage firms looking for business support

Starting a new business can be both exhilarating and daunting. Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned professional, launching a startup requires careful planning and execution

Small businesses may not always generate the headlines that their larger counterparts do, but their impact is no less profound on the UK economy, particularly when it comes to shaping its sustainability credentials

People aged 50 and older are an important segment of the UK’s workforce

Start Up Loans has always been proud to support female entrepreneurs on their journey to business ownership. Since the programme’s inception in 2012, it has supported over 44,000 female-run businesses, providing almost £400m in loans

Gen Z is set to become the most qualified generation with 80% on course to complete higher education

The new year provides a natural point of reflection for everyone

Founders, managers, and aspiring entrepreneurs, will all, at one time or another, ask what it is that makes a business successful

Despite inflationary pressures impacting consumer spending, Christmas is still seen as a time of giving, and some shoppers turn to small businesses in a bid to support locally-owned companies rather than larger, well established High Street brands

As well as offering finance, the programme aims to motivate and inspire budding entrepreneurs who are thinking about pursuing an idea of their own

Many founders and leaders will aspire to taking their business to foreign shores, and expanding on an international level as part of their scaling up process

Richard Bearman is the Managing Director of Start Up Loans, a government-backed programme, that launched in 2012 to provide loans to new and early-stage businesses throughout the UK that may have struggled to access finance (up to £25k) elsewhere