Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Frequently Asked Questions & Useful Resources => Topic started by: Craig Argyle on April 24, 2006, 07:44:26 pm
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Wow, has anybody ever gone through the Prince's Trust to get themselves up and running? I tell ya they don't make it easy thats for sure haha. Anyone got any stories about there experience, and weather its worth going through with all the agro?
Cheers Craig :)
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Yes I got all that sorted now nearly there. Be glad when I get done haha. Im not working right now no. I have been doing the usual door to door way.
Glad to hear that it should be worthwhile anyway! ;)
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I started a business through the princes trust back in 1992, the important thing is to have a bombproof business plan and cashflow forecast and do plenty of market research, it also helps if you have a bank that will agree to lend you half the required amount if they lend you the other half, the worst bit is when you have the meeting with a panel of pybt representatives who give the final decision, the upside is that you will get a business adviser allotted to you who, in my case, I had to meet once a month for I think 2 years, every month brought a sleepless night of trying to get the paperwork in order for the visit, it sets you straight from the beginning and came as a bit of a shock but the result is I'm still fussy about paperwork now, if I were starting a business for the first time now I'd go through them again, Andy