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Access to finance event for Thames Valley SMEs

Thames Valley Berkshire LEP has announced an event for SMEs at O2’s Slough headquarters.

The ‘Grow your Money, and then Grow your Business’ event takes place on June 1, and will feature presentations from several business representatives and leaders.

Steve Lamb, Chair of the TVB LEP commented, “We are collaborating with SME’s across the Thames Valley region to build business confidence, and understand what opportunities and challenges SME’s face.

“We talk to businesses as much as possible, and some of them are telling us that access to finance and economic confidence can pose a problem, and we want to show SME’s the ways in which they can tackle these issues – there is a lot of help at hand.

“ We may technically be back in recession, but Thames Valley Berkshire is the engine of the UK economy, with many successful and growing companies, and we firmly believe it is the best place to live, work and do business.“

Tony O’Connor, MD of successful Berkshire business, British Eco, will chat to Sally Goodsell, CEO of Finance South East, as part of the event.

Business Angel, Barney Quinn, will also be talking about investing in SMEs, while Oxford Innovation will launch its new coaching programme for high growth businesses.

Louise Fellows, Head of Regional Development South East, for O2, said: “O2 is pleased to welcome Thames Valley Berkshire LEP and the local Thames Valley business community to our offices on the 1st June 2012 for the “Access to Finance” event.

“It’s hugely exciting to be working in partnership with the LEP and the local business community on this event to raise business confidence and be part of the community hub for economic regeneration in the Thames Valley.”

SMEs interesting in attending the event are invited to register via the TVB LEP website, here.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .