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Boost roundtable with Rosebud: securing business growth finance Boost roundtable participants
9th October 2025
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Finance
Boost roundtable with Rosebud: securing business growth finance
As part of Business Finance Week, Boost partnered with Rosebud Business Finance to gather businesses, lenders and support providers from across Lancashire for a special roundtable chaired by Boost programme manager Andrew Leeming.
Lancashire Support Spotlight: finance Support Spotlight finance web
1st October 2025
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Finance
Lancashire Support Spotlight: finance
Boost’s latest monthly Lancashire Support Spotlight shines a light on the Lancashire funding landscape.
Lancashire Support Spotlight: manufacturing Lancs Support Spotlight manufacturing
19th August 2025
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Building Resilience
Lancashire Support Spotlight: manufacturing
There is a huge wealth of business support available to Lancashire companies focusing on a range of business sectors, key issues and markets. We spotlight five as part of a new series.
Growing with care: Planning for business growth in a volatile economy BOO7 Helen Binns web
7th August 2025
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Building Resilience
Growing with care: Planning for business growth in a volatile economy
Many successful businesses do grow in tough climates. The key? Planning for growth in a way that’s flexible, informed, and realistic.
Digital defenders: How smart businesses can outsmart the fraudsters Meritec fraud cropped
6th June 2025
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Building Resilience
Digital defenders: How smart businesses can outsmart the fraudsters
Fraud now accounts for 41 per cent of all crime in the UK, making it one of the most pervasive and costly threats to UK businesses. In this latest Boost knowledge hub article, Alex Abbey, from Meritec, a leading digital transformation company based in Burnley, shares eight practical ways to build stronger fraud prevention practices across your business.
Building resilience: The key to unlocking growth Building resilience The key to unlocking growth
3rd March 2025
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Building Resilience
Building resilience: The key to unlocking growth
John Woodruffe, from Turnkey, shares his top ten planning tips – from strategic flexibility and cost management to employee engagement and continuous improvement. These actionable insights will help businesses strengthen their foundations, adapt to economic shifts, and position themselves for sustainable growth.
Building resilience: How to help SMEs manage cash flow in the current economic climate 03 AccessToFinance
29th January 2025
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Building Resilience
Building resilience: How to help SMEs manage cash flow in the current economic climate
Mark Gibbons, Access to Finance – lead adviser, outlines five ways to help SME business leaders tackle cash flow issues
The additional responsibilities of an early-stage founder after raising equity investment responsibilitiesraising equity web
21st January 2025
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Finance
The additional responsibilities of an early-stage founder after raising equity investment
While securing equity investment is a cause for celebration, it also marks the beginning of a new chapter filled with greater accountability, strategic oversight, and relationship management. Warren Lunt, Boost Access to Finance adviser and equity specialist, provides the key responsibilities that founders take on after raising equity investment:
Building resilience: Thriving in a changing business landscape Building resilience thriving in a changing business landscape
17th January 2025
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Building Resilience
Building resilience: Thriving in a changing business landscape
In this helpful guide Boost business adviser Jaan Scott provides practical strategies, real-life examples, and actionable insights to help you build a resilient business capable of not just surviving, but flourishing, in today's ever-evolving business landscape.
Lancashire businesses urged to take advantage of expert funded support to help secure finance Mark Gibbons, lead adviser
11th November 2024
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Finance
Lancashire businesses urged to take advantage of expert funded support to help secure finance
Business owners and entrepreneurs in Lancashire are being urged to make the most of a fully-funded service which gives them access to a team of finance experts to help them become investment-ready, source and secure growth finance.
How to overcome the challenges small businesses face borrowing from banks challenges small businesses face borrowing from banks web
7th November 2024
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Finance
How to overcome the challenges small businesses face borrowing from banks
Access to Finance business adviser Iain Duncan a corporate and commercial finance specialist, shares insights on the challenges faced by SMEs and how the Access to Finance can help SMEs to secure funding.
UK external finance increases, as businesses remain cautiously optimistic on the economy UK external finance increases, as businesses remain cautiously optimistic on the economy
25th October 2024
UK external finance increases, as businesses remain cautiously optimistic on the economy
The British Business Bank’s fourth Nations and Regions Tracker has found usage of external finance has increased overall across the UK, with 11 out of the 12 nations and regions recording an uptick in use of small business finance.
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