Commercial finance specialist, Christie Finance, has recently worked with Margaret, Roger and James Ephraims to successfully refinance their established care home, Vicarage Nursing Home, in Bayston Hill, Shrewsbury. Husband and wife team, Margaret and Roger have a wealth of experience in owning and operating nursing homes, having acquired their first in 1995. Their son, James, […]
A tour guide operator has successfully launched its own app and grown its commercial offering by 15% after receiving support from DigitalBoost, Scotland’s national digital upskilling programme, delivered by Business Gateway. Based in Aberdeenshire, Grampian Escapes and Tours offers single day food tours in the city of Aberdeen and other tours around the North East of Scotland, combining […]
New data from AIM-listed alternative finance provider, Time Finance, has shown that alternative finance is ranked the highest amongst funding solutions as businesses seek investment in future growth as the government’s pandemic support draws to a close. Time Finance’s latest survey showed that 80% of businesses plan to use alternative finance through a financial intermediary […]
The Car Sales Company Bury is expanding with the addition of a new showroom, which opened this week, and is hiring 20 additional staff. The business is among the UK’s largest independent ‘car supermarkets’, dealing in used cars, buying and selling from its original premises in Bury, Greater Manchester – and now from its new […]
SoMo, one of the UK’s leading specialist lenders, has seen a series of record-breaking months across completions, offers and funding since the beginning of 2021. Based in Greater Manchester SoMo provides ultra-competitive rates for residential and commercial bridging loans secured over UK property. The company has lent over £184m under its ethos to lend money safely […]
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has announced the sale of former nursing home, The Sycamores, in Wolverhampton. The Sycamores care home formerly sat in a detached, purpose-built property constructed in 2001, which comprises 84 single bedrooms, all with en suite facilities, laid out over three floors. The building boasts wide corridors and day […]
A generation of business women “lead-hers” is emerging in the UK, with rising entrepreneurial ambition amongst young women set to narrow the business ownership gap. This is according to new research from Starling Bank, which questioned successive generations – including today’s teens – about their entrepreneurial ambitions – and projected when we might reach parity. […]
Yorkshire-based entrepreneur, Tim Whitworth, of private equity house TIM Group Holdings, is pleased to announce he has backed an exciting new digital marketing start-up. Created by young female entrepreneur Chloe Byrne, Audience was conceived with the primary purpose of connecting smaller businesses with their target audiences. “For many business owners, the day-to-day running of their […]
Nucleus Commercial Finance, the fintech revolutionising how UK SMEs access finance, has been accredited by the British Business Bank under the government-backed Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS). Nucleus will be the first lender to offer interest-only on all RLS term loans. To bring this unique offering to market, businesses will make interest payments over the first […]
UK drivers considering a move to electric driving can discover how much they could save and the electric vehicle (EV) model best suited to them thanks to EV8 Switch, a new space-enabled app. The app from EV8 Technologies, is supported by NatWest Group and is free to download from the Apple App Store and the […]
