Richard Harpin

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James Reed: all about business · 61. The email that saved HomeServe and sparked a £4bn business | Sir Richard Harpin · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

So we are engaged with Department of Business and Trade talking about that.

The other area is only 21% of businesses that are looking to get finance engage a financial advisor.

So that needs to be much higher.

The reason why they don't is they say, well, where do I get one from?

Who should I use?

So if we were able to put together an advisory network, make it more prominent, then we would get more advice out to those businesses so they can root out different sources of finance.

It's a fair question, though.

Where do you go?

How do I get one?

I mean, what happens at the moment?

So are you creating this network?

We're hoping to work with Department of Business and Trade to put together an advisory network of these people.

They're out there, but they work for some of the smaller accountancy practices.

There are self-employed business finance advisors.

There are a couple of networks, but nobody knows about them.

That would be very helpful, wouldn't it?

So it seems like there's capital there, but it's not being accessed or it's not clear how to get to it.

That's part of the problem.

So we need to signpost better.

I think the other thing, James, is we need to celebrate entrepreneurship more.

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