Happy International Women's Day from BusinessLoans.ie

BusinessLoans.ie is celebrating International Women’s Day. The theme this year is #ChooseToChallenge. We choose to challenge the imbalance of lending & investment in female-founded companies. Looking back over the past year & the finance we have helped with, the majority of the loans were for businesses owned and run by men. We need to work harder on being more accessible and are setting a goal to overcome this.

We did help some great female-founded businesses though. Our favourite was a loan for a uniforms business during the pandemic. They were pivoting from their usual hotel uniforms business to helping our nurses and medical professionals battling Covid19 by importing & manufacturing gear to keep them safe.

Wherever you’re at with your entrepreneurship journey there’s help at hand. Check out these 5 essential supports for female entrepreneurs in Ireland. Throughout 2021 we would love to help more female founders in Ireland with business loans to grow their business. We are happy to set up a Zoom and discuss loans as well as help with any useful connections, finance or otherwise, in our network. Get in touch today.

BusinessLoans.ie Dublin City FM Interview

Last Friday we were delighted to speak with Alec Drew - The Business Expert on the You and Your Business show on Dublin City FM. Alec is a business coach, author and international speaker. He has a career that has spanned four decades in four different sectors and increased the profit of one of his companies by 100 times. He interviewed BusinessLoans.ie MD Rupert Hogan about his career, peer-to-peer business loans and alternative business finance generally. Rupert then gave insights in to finance strategies to prepare for Brexit and enter new markets.