Gloucester MP Richard Graham welcomed new figures that show the Government’s Start-Up Loans Scheme has helped 60 people in Gloucester to set up their own business – helping to provide growth and jobs.
“These new Glosterpreneurs are showing that self-employment is a real option”, price said Richard.
The Start-Up Loans scheme provides loans and mentoring support to people who want to start their own businesses. Across the country, see 25,000 Start-Up Loans have now been awarded, worth a total of nearly £130 million and generating more than 32,000 new jobs
“Because our city and others show the appetite for the British people to forge their own businesses, my party has pledged to make Start-Up Loans available to 75,000 new businesses by 2020 – and I hope there are masses of new Glosterpreneurs among them”.