{"id":4816,"date":"2015-02-23T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T07:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/?p=4816"},"modified":"2022-11-16T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T17:26:22","slug":"bbc-interview-peter-westerman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/bbc-interview-peter-westerman\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Westerman Tells the BBC Affects of Important Local Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Peter Westerman thoroughly enjoyed the British Government giving his company a grant to assist with the growth of the business.<\/h2>\n<h3>He was ecstatic when the BBC East Midlands News wanted to film the business.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlSHT9TzTII\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Government officials were in the Midlands announcing a new wave of funding to assist local companies to expand their business.<\/p>\n<p>With ours being successful during 2014, a small family company was the ideal model to encourage similar firms to apply for the new funding.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more follow this link to the <a title=\"RGF \" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/regional-growth-fund-programmes-guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.Gov page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Positives &#8211; Money from the Government! Exposure, cashflow assistance.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Negatives &#8211; Paperwork and application form.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Westermans International is a family run company supplying and buying new, used and refurbished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/weldingmachines.aspx\">welding equipment<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Westerman thoroughly enjoyed the British Government giving his company a grant to assist with the growth of the business. He was ecstatic when the BBC East Midlands News wanted to film the business. Government officials were in the Midlands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/bbc-interview-peter-westerman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westermans-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lewj20150528b-036_c_l.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ygth-1fG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10402,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4816\/revisions\/10402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westermans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}