A lot of recent research is suggesting that SME's will be crucial in Britain's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, however, will the small businesses be given the funding they need to help heave the country out of the economic black hole?
During his autumn budget, the Chancellor announced several different governmental spending avenues to ensure a strong economic bounce back after the coronavirus pandemic. In our previous blog post, we spoke about the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS) extension until 30th...
In his autumn budget announcement, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that the Recovery Loan Scheme is set to be extended until 30th June 2022. This is great news for businesses, allowing a longer period of time for each business to apply for the scheme, however...
After being rescheduled due to obvious reasons in 2020, IFBA Live is back for 2021, on 16-17th October 2021 at the Slate, Warwick. Johnson Reed will be there to support personal trainers, fitness managers and gym owners by helping them to take their next steps as a...
At a critical time when your business needs funding, whether it’s for a cash flow loan, to secure a new piece of equipment or to help with an expansion, it’s important to you as a business owner that this is a smooth and quick process to prevent delays and...
Despite the result for England in the final, small businesses will have welcomed the boost the tournament has brought them, along with the easing of Covid restrictions. Latest figures from one of Johnson Reed’s panel of lenders, Hitachi Capital, have found that...
Following an 80% rise in April in the alternative finance market, latest figures by the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) show the growth in leasing and and hire purchase new business in May 2021, compared with the same month 2020. For the five month period from...
Research from ONS shows that in April the UK grew at its fastest pace since lockdown was eased last summer, with retail reopening and schooling resuming, strong numbers have contributed to a recovery similar to that of pre-pandemic levels. The volume of goods and...
Latest figures from the Finance & Leasing Association (“FLA”) show the growth in total asset finance new business (primarily leasing and hire purchase) grew by 80% in April 2021 compared with April 2020. In the first four months of 2021, new business was 15%...
