Figures from the programme show that on average it has given loans to more than 5,543 loans, averaging £8,286 each, in order to kickstart new businesses.

 

Patrick Magee, British Business Bank Chief Commercial Officer, said: “Reaching £45million of funding in the South East is a real achievement and is testament to the ambitious spirit of new business owners in the South-East such as Alexandra.

 

“We’re looking forward to seeing more new business owners take up funding to kickstart their own businesses.”

 

Kelly Tolhurst MP, Small Business Minister, said: “The UK’s 5.7 million small businesses are the backbone of our economy and we’re dedicated to helping them thrive through our modern Industrial Strategy, ensuring we retain our status as one of the best places in the world to start and grow a small business.

 

“Reaching this important milestone reflects the success of UK Government-backed start-up loans in supporting entrepreneurs across the South East helping them form new businesses that grow local economies and are at the heart of our communities.”

 

Source: BDaily

 

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Many office-based start-ups and microbusinesses don’t see the point in using a time and attendance system, but we think differently. 

 

We know from experience that companies find the data we can offer them very useful in building up a bigger picture of their employees’ punctuality and productivity. 

 

For example, HR staff can very easily view and create reports about the absence or lateness occurrences for every single employee in the company.

 

This could give them advance warning about morale problems in individual departments, or allow them to spot who generally rings in sick on a Monday or Friday. 

 

Getting a system to take care of all this time-wasting monitoring for you is just common sense. 

 

Our products are available to businesses of all sizes. including microbusinesses.

 

If you rent your premises, as many smaller businesses which have expanded out of the owner’s house do, and cannot install any extra wiring, your employees can use our web-based attendance recording rather than our physical terminals. 

 

This is called the Self Service Module (SSM), and it allows employees to clock in and out using either a browser version, or a mobile phone app. They can also request holiday using this app, which eliminates the need for cumbersome paper holiday forms.