Our staff will spend time getting to know your business – providing help and advice to make it a success.
Once your business has a loan from us, we will come and see you a few times a year to see how you are doing and check if there is anything we can do to help. We understand the pressures on your time and money – we want you to succeed.
We presently have the support of ERDF (European Regional Development Funds), which enable us to provide additional support to clients if they have either problems or opportunities. This public funding is matched by loan repayments from all our clients to help pay for practical help to clients that need it most.
In the last year, this has ranged from DSL providing a specialist accountant to help with cashflow management and tax to DSL providing a one-to-one sales mentor for a client needing to diversify their customer base.
Business hurdles?If any of our clients are experiencing problems that might need specialist advice (or anticipating they might) they should get in touch as early as possible to discuss how we can help.
If you are a client and have sight of great new opportunities but are short of resources please contact us too. DSL would be delighted to help whether directly or navigating you through any public or private-sector help that might be available.
Picture: DSL business support partners at our 15th anniversary event.
A wide range of business advice and support is available from different organisations.
If you are a start up business or think you may need help to grow your business, you should contact your local Business Gateway for free advice and training. You can find out more on the Business Gateway website.
Scottish Enterprise can provide support if your business is growing quickly. Their website will tell you about equity products such as the Scottish Co-investment Fund and how they help Scottish businesses reach markets in places like China and India. See their website for details.
The Inland Revenue's website is great for information about calculating tax as well as advice on more general business issues – visit their site for help.
Another good website for UK businesses – while it concentrates on services available in England, it is still very good for tips and downloads. Rumour is there is soon to be much more interactive and video based help available. Visit their site for more information.
Good information for social enterprises, informative weekly e-mail sent out with all the low-down on what is happening in the sector. They recently produced a guide on Who's Who for social enterprises 2011.
0% interest loans for carbon footprint reduction activities and free advice and guidance. Good ways of lowering your overall business energy costs. Visit their site.
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If you'd like more information, call DSL Business Finance on 0141 425 2930 or get in touch by email.
DSL only lends to businesses in central Scotland. Phone us or e-mail if you want to check if we work in your area.
