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Could you use £50,000 to boost your business?

Barclays Bank are running a competition open to budding entrepreneurs, start-ups and existing businesses, the Barclays One Small Step Competition

2010 will continue to be challenging for businesses and Barclays Bank wants to help. So in addition to the free support they offer all companies, they’re going to give a £50,000 boost to ten brilliant business ideas out there.

The aim of the Barclays Business Take One Small Step Competition is to find people with ambition, passion and, most importantly, a great business idea.

The brief is open — it could be a lifelong ambition or a recent brainwave. It could be a personal experience or a distant dream. Even a revolutionary concept that changes the world. It’s an open invitation and anyone with a great business idea and the drive to make it happen could win.

Do you have a great business idea? From start-ups to existing businesses, anyone can pitch for the chance to turn a great idea into an even better reality.

To find out more, to enter and to register your idea, go to the One Small Step website at: www.takeonesmallstep.co.uk

April 20 2010