There are four ways in which you could help us..... 

1. Development Fund Donation
   
   
2. Start Up Loan Funding
   
   
3. Internet Research Associates
   
   
4. Microenterprise Mentoring
   

1. Development Fund Donations

Many business ideas need help and incur some expense in developing and preparing samples or testing their products or service with customers.

We will be very pleased to receive donations toward micro business development costs as a Development Fund.

Donations to this fund of any amount can be gift aided

2. Start Up Loan Funding

 Micro businesses in developing countries may require from £500 to £3,000 start up investment.

We encourage anyone starting a business to plan for the very lowest possible start up cost and we discourage anyone from borrowing start up money if they can possibly find it by other means. However, it is accepted that for many there is no option but to seek loan funding.

Interest on unsecured loans from banks or microfinance agencies in developing countries, if available is often at over 20%, to ensure full cost recovery and profit from handling very small loans.

We want therefore to offer a carefully selective and possibly unique on line loan scheme, at a minimal reasonable interest level - see details on Funding Support

This would provide unsecured loan funding for up to three years at 7% interest (3% for Aid for Trade administration and 4% gross interest to the loan fund)

We will be posting specific funding requests so that a choice can be made and your investment can be immediately allocated.  You will receive feedback on the progress of the business and your funding will be returned to you as and when received by annual repayments from the business you are helping.

It must be emphasized that notwithstanding every effort we can make, in developing countries just as in the West, there is risk of failure of any new business and potential loss of all or some of your investment. Part of our strategy is to establish viable model businesses which if replicated will reduce the learning curve and greatly reduce the risk of failure and financial loss.

3. Internet Research Associates

Help is needed to generate useful information from the internet that can be used or referred to on our website. We need to recruit internet research associates who can give some time using the internet to generate information and links on a wide range of topics.

This help can be done anywhere where you have internet access, at any time and for as much time as you can spare.

There is a wide range of subjects we need information on, but priority at this time is to generate ‘know how’ on each of the seventy microenterprises identified on our website (Microenterprises) – each of which will already exist somewhere and possibly in very many places

If you would like to help us in this way please contact us and suggest which one to three microenterprises you would like to research. 

4. Microenterprise Mentoring

 A major reason for the often low level of enterprise start ups in developing countries is the lack of ‘know how’ and completes absence of any help.

Whilst we will provide through this website as much help as possible it would still be  a great encouragement to a start up entrepreneur if they had contact with someone who would offer guidance and direction when needed

This need not be time consuming but could be a great encouragement and help .
If you would like to help us in this way please contact us and send a copy of your CV.