Success stories

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Charlene works for the NHS in Oldham and applied to Salad Money for a loan. But she got a pleasant surprise when the firm, which

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Sarah*, 38 is a shift worker in a fulfilment warehouse. The Sheffield resident approached Fair Finance in May 2022 to borrow £600 when two unexpected

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After seeing her parents’ financial problems worsen when they turned to a backstreet lender charging high interest rates, Liberty, of Stockon on Tees, was determined

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In May 2020 Ruth Hancock (42) was nearly £12,000 in debt and in despair about whether she’d ever work again and how she’d pay the

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Extrupol Packaging in Lincolnshire has seen demand for its products increase threefold to help the UK’s front-line battle against Coronavirus. A new £50,000 loan from

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Owner ensured hard-up families who were struggling could have meal for four for £5 and experienced so much demand the firm created seven new jobs.

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The Refillery is a plastic-free and zero waste store based in Edinburgh. Founder and Director Kelly Wright opened The Refillery after a 20-year career in

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Zander Macgregor and Allan Nairn both enjoyed rum and wondered why it wasn’t being made in Scotland, when there was so much choice of Scottish

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Yasin El Ashrafi grew up on an inner city estate and never met his father who was deported before he was born. Expelled from school at 15, from

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Rosie Ginday trained as a high-end pastry chef and worked in a Michelin starred restaurant before creating Miss Macaroon, a social enterprise combining premium quality

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