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Eat local, spend local, enjoy local!

Small Business Saturday takes place each year on the first Saturday of December, it is all about shopping locally, supporting small businesses and contributing towards their success. In 2017, £748 million was reportedly spent with small businesses in the UK, many actively participating by offering promotions and discounts to acknowledge the day.

Kelly Tolhurst, Small Business Minister commented: “With more than 1,000 starting up every day, the UK’s small businesses are the backbone of our economy and at the heart of our modern Industrial Strategy”.

Café Lush, owners Louisa and Sharon have been trading since April 2018 and stated; “We wanted to be able to work around our families, making the work life balance easier! We now have the flexibility and control over how we want to run our business and the rewards make it so worthwhile”.

Here at FBTC Accountancy Services we support a range of small businesses and sole traders, so we didn’t want to miss out on the opportunity to highlight this day. We wanted to send a virtual high 5 and well done to all those small businesses out there. Keep up the good work and remember the reasons why you decided to take the leap into self-employment in the first place.

We have decided to bring you a daily dose of small business motivation over the next 5 days. This will include comments from our clients, a bit about their business and why they became self-employed.