Find Funding for my business in arb

[Robert-Chainsaw]

Hi,

 

i have an Level 2 in Foresty and Arb and would like to continue my career as an arbroist is there any funding eg Grant(s) that i could help with my courses CS31 CCS32 Cs38 CS39 CS40 CS41 and stuff like that and level 3 i would like to study as well. I'm hoping to run and open my business next year.

Any comments would help

[Andy Collins]

Why can you not earn money in the mean time to pay for your courses? Even if it's dragging and raking this will stand you in good stead for the future in this job, and you will learn more about the real world of tree work from actually being on site, than in a classroom. So the two should compliment one another nicely.

[Mark Bolam]

Hi,

 

i have an Level 2 in Foresty and Arb and would like to continue my career as an arbroist is there any funding eg Grant(s) that i could help with my courses CS31 CCS32 Cs38 CS39 CS40 CS41 and stuff like that and level 3 i would like to study as well. I'm hoping to run and open my business next year.

Any comments would help

 

Make sure you spell this correctly on any application forms.

 

Ditto Andy here.

 

We're not negative, but we believe in walk before you run.

 

Anyone looking to set up their own business without learning it first in today's market is probably going to fail.

[s.varty]

Why can you not earn money in the mean time to pay for your courses? Even if it's dragging and raking this will stand you in good stead for the future in this job, and you will learn more about the real world of tree work from actually being on site, than in a classroom. So the two should compliment one another nicely.

 

Well said, to be THE man you have to start off being THE boy,sweeping,raking blowing etc

[RobArb]

I don't understand in how people can think its easy to run a business in arb, when never even actually worked in the industry before.

 

Get some experience (couple of years) working for others as a brash rat/groundie/trainee climber first before even thinking about running a business, please, for the safety of, you, others and the trees themselves.

 

And why do people think they should get money handed down to them on a plate, when the most successful people in this industry have worked their way up through shear hard graft.

 

Sounds like I'm trying to put a downer on your ambitions, I'm not, just do things the right way:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

[delabodge]

I don't understand in how people can think its easy to run a business in arb, when never even actually worked in the industry before.

 

Get some experience (couple of years) working for others as a brash rat/groundie/trainee climber first before even thinking about running a business, please, for the safety of, you, others and the trees themselves.

 

And why do people think they should get money handed down to them on a plate, when the most successful people in this industry have worked their way up through shear hard graft.

 

Sounds like I'm trying to put a downer on your ambitions, I'm not, just do things the right way:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

 

:thumbup:

[Andy Collins]

Ok here's some food for thought. We, and I include myself here, always jump on this kind of thread because it's just the way we feel it should be done, it's the way I did it and many others I'm sure. Is it that we cannot bear to think that there is in fact an easier way to get there? I doubt there is one "successful" arborist run business, I mean successful as Richard Branson, not successful as in still going, treading water to pay the bills. Let's face it, tree work is not the choice of entrepreneurs to get rich quick, and no serious businessman would invest real amounts of money into it.

Many of us do tree work for the passion, the love of the work and the outdoors, most of us are not "real" businessmen, as a result many will fail in time. What is to say a person with business acumen couldn't make a real go of it, employ the right people to do the right work, even if straight out of college with minimal trade experience.

I still think we're all right, been there done that and all that, but just trying to see things from another angle.

[Gareth Dalzell]

I didn't realise there was anything wrong with looking for grants/funding. And as for finishing college and starting straight into your own business - go for it. It worked for me. I started with some money I,d made at college and a £2000 grant paid over a year. If you,ve got what it takes you,ll swim, if not you sink and go a work for someone else if you want - at least you,ve had a go. I think you thread just shows you are exploring options and checking things out per-start. Nothing wrong with that. If you are from a farming background there are grants for training available and machinery over here. Your local council development agency can often help as well.

[Andy Collins]

I don't think there is anything wrong with getting grants etc, Gareth. I think for the majority of people it is just not the way they've done it, (including myself). The old way was to learn the trade, put the hours in for someone else, similar to an apprenticeship in a way. Then in time move on and set yourself up. Maybe some resent the fact that there is help out there to get you going I don't know. I do know this is now a heavily over subscribed trade, too many chasing to little work, and only the strong will survive. But who is to say who this should be?

[martwizz]

I am self employed, and I invest half of everything I earn back into my business. Accumulating new gear pretty quickly, hopefully in a year or so, I will have all the gear I need to be able to run my own show entirely (bar a chipper). I don't necessarily plan to do that by then, but its nice to have the option. It's also nice having your own gear.