Cheshire salon owner meets the chancellor

A Cheshire salon owner recently had the chance for a face-to-face meeting with the Chancellor George Osborne.

Sharon Dobson, owner of children's hair salon Little Bigheads in Wilmslow, joined a panel of business owners from across the North West invited to the round table event at the offices of the Forum of Private Business in Knutsford, Cheshire.

The FPB, a small business support organisation, arranged the event for its members to meet and discuss with the Chancellor a range of issues affecting small firms, and to discuss the content of the recent Budget.

Topics broached ranged from access to finance and what the Government was doing to help SMEs with reference to funding for lending, business rates, the Heseltine Report int

o growth, and how Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) could work to boost enterprise.

Sharon said afterwards: "I found the meeting with the Chancellor very insightful.He gave some really interesting answers and our members all went away with a lot to digest."