If We Can, You Can

Author:

Angela Brown

Business:

Training in Childcare Ltd

Published:

10/11/2008 11:14:00

When I started out on my own in 2001, I tried to partner a local college so I could have a code of practice. I’d got people to a level 1 but I wanted to move them to a level 2 so I asked if I could run accreditation through them.

That college kept me waiting seven months. They’d said yes but then they didn’t bother doing it. My Business Link advisor said, why don’t you just do it yourself?

I thought, oh no I’m going back to college again. I like doing the creative stuff. I don’t like forms. But my advisor said you’ll never grow it if you don’t. She was right.

I went through all the stages of becoming an accredited provider. What I found was it wasn’t as bad a process as I thought it was going to be. It wasn’t even that difficult.

The problem with growing the business was that it would require all the things I wasn’t good at. Once I discovered that it was actually pretty easy, there was no stopping us.