CB025-005 Hidden Grants

"There seem to be increasing numbers of organisations who have bits of money that can be made available to business .... but half of the problem is finding them." Dave Baker Vice Chairman of the FSB in Suffolk "If you don't want small businesses to become cynical and say yet another Government scheme that doesn't work then you have to give some considerable thought to the detail of how you are going to deliver it - And they always fail and they never learn and I just despair." Chris Soule

"At the moment we are being told that apprenticeships are really really important. It is coming up all over the place .... to enable the small business to have the confidence to take on an apprentice they have to see that there is a growth pattern." Chris Soule Chairman of the FSB in Suffolk

"I think that the next step for the LEP...... is actually to drill down about what small business want." Chris Soule Chairman of the FSB in Suffolk