Local entrepreneurs are getting a helping hand.
The Chatham-Kent Workforce Planning Board along with a number of local partner aims to help local businesses that need some financing.
Program Manager Kristy Jacobs says the program makes $5,000 available to help get the ball rolling.
“Butterfly Bakery, which is owned by Shelley Bresett from Chatham, has been awarded our very first loan,” Jacobs says. “It’s a bakery that specializes in diabetic baking that doesn’t taste like diabetic baking, and other catered baking.”
Jacobs says there’s another half dozen applicants going through the process right now.
To find out more about the microlending program or to start the application process for your own business, visit the Workforce Planning Board website.