Free Business Plan Templates

A business plan sets out what your business does, who it sells to, how it makes money, and what it needs to get there. Lenders and investors ask for one; so do landlords, grant bodies, and sometimes suppliers offering credit. But the more common reason to write one is simpler — it's the exercise that shows you which parts of your idea you haven't thought through. The free templates below are editable MS Word and Excel files, and beneath them you'll find the standard section-by-section structure, what readers actually look at, and how to build financial projections that hold up.… Read More