EXHIBITOR PROFILE

Federation of Small Businesses
Website:	http://www.fsb.org.uk/
Stand Number:	59
Contact:	Matthew Jaffa
Address:	Sir Frank Whittle Way, Blackpool Business Park, Blackpool, FY4 2FE
Telephone:	02082076523

Federation of Small Businesses

 

The FSB is the UK's largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of more than 200,000 self-employed individuals and owners of small firms.  We offer a range of member benefits including free legal advice, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and free financial and insurance health checks that can save businesses thousands of pounds per year..

 

The FSB will be promoting its Real-Life Entrepreneurs campaign at the Fresh Business Thinking Live! Event. We champion the UK's Real-Life Entrepreneurs by giving practical support through benefits and by ensuring that entrepreneurs are viewed as job, wealth and growth creators of the future in the corridors of power across the UK. 

 

And with economic growth having stalled and the Government looking to the private sector to put the economy back onto firm ground, the FSB is on the side of Real Life Entrepreneurs.   We are calling for decision makers to listen to the FSB by:

 

• Increasing the routes to finance by creating more competition in the banking sector. 

• Adopting a new approach to regulation and cut down the amount of red tape small firms have to plough through.

• Improving cash-flow by ensuring that small business are paid on time.

• Creating a simplified tax system for small businesses that find it complex and burdensome. 

• Incentivising small firms to take on staff and so help tackle high unemployment.

• Opening up export markets so that small businesses can really begin to grow the economy.

 

We are delighted to work in partnership with Fresh Business Thinking as they support the aims of the FSB and our campaign.

 

I encourage delegates to visit our stand at the event and visit our website to see the many benefits of joining the FSB at www.fsb.org.uk/value