David Fishwick’s first foray into the business world came about when he was 16. He was an apprentice builder and he hated it, and so he persuaded the owner of a back-street garage to let him take a car, do it up, and sell it on. He worked on the car at night, eventually selling it for £97 – £70 of which went to the garage owner. He was soon selling one car a week, then six a month. After restoring and selling a run-down van, he realised there was real money to be made in vans, and he bought his own garage in 1994.

David Fishwick Van and Minibus Sales is now the biggest minibus supplier in Britain, providing affordable, customised minibuses for schools, community groups, sports teams, and local authorities. It now has a multi-million pound turnover and employs lots of local people.

Dave’s interest in banking began in the wake of the 2008/09 economic crisis, when he realised that high street banks were no longer giving loans to his customers, so he decided to lend them the money himself. It made him want to expand and start his own small bank.

He also owns a residential and commercial property portfolio, and has a commercial vehicle parts business operating throughout Europe.

IN THE MEDIA

Dave is a two-time BAFTA winner, including the BAFTA for Best Features and Factual Entertainment Programmes; won six Broadcast Awards; and the prestigious Royal Television Society Award.

He has been involved in many television programmes, including a property series on Amazon Prime where he helped people get onto the property ladder; a global consumer series; and the seven part series How to Get Rich, Helping Young People Start a Business. In 2020, he entered the world of live television, making the live 15-part consumer series Your Money and Your Life with Kym Marsh and Matt Alright for BBC 1.

In Secret Millions (2013), he raised £2,000,000 to help disadvantaged young people across the UK; and in the Loan Ranger series (2014) he examined how payday loan companies exploit the poor, vulnerable, and desperate. Other programmes include Can Property Pay Your Wages? and The Shoppers Guide to Saving Money.

He now regularly appears on This Morning and Good Morning Britain, and features heavily on BBC 1, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, BBC 2 Politics, Warner Bros, BBC 5 Live, BBC Radio 2, CNN, and CNBC.

In 2023, The Bank of Dave movie was released on Netflix, quickly hitting number one on their top ten film charts, and has even become Netflix’s most successful independent British film of all time. The sequel Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger was released on Netflix in January 2025. Excitingly, The Bank of Dave musical was commissioned, with a release in London’s West End scheduled for early 2026.

Netflix have also acquired all of the Bank of Dave documentary series, remastering it and launching it onto their streaming platform in 2024. He also documented the opening of Burnley Savings and Loans, with a series named Bank of Dave: Fighting the Fat Cats.

Dave has worked as the official “business doctor” for The Daily Mail’s Mail Online, the largest digital newspaper in the world, as well as for the printed newspaper and The Mail on Sunday. He has also been approached by The Sunday Times to write a regular business and consumer column.

OTHER WORK

David Fishwick is also a very experienced pilot of planes and helicopters, and has built and developed the fastest-growing aviation channel in the world on TikTok, gaining over 100 million combined views! In 2005, he found that others were asking if they could borrow his helicopter, and so he opened David Fishwick Helicopters Ltd. providing charter flights.

David donates lots of time to a range of philanthropic efforts, taking terminally ill and disabled young people on their first flight experiences in an aircraft, and donating his services to the North West Air Ambulance. One of his goals is to use his money and profile to build a charity that helps the most vulnerable in society.

CORPORATE

In 2025, Dave set off on his biggest quest to date, flying to Nashville to help the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA). He is the Global Ambassador for the United States of America’s 6,000 community banks which hold over six trillion dollars of assets.

He is a highly sought-after business and financial speaker, where he talks passionately about his entrepreneurial spirit and what made him take on a seemingly impossible challenge and the lessons he learnt along the way. He regularly speaks at conferences and dinners up and down the UK and overseas, and it is his passion and honest opinions tat make him a compelling speaker for any event.

SPEAKING TOPICS

– Finding the Entrepreneurial Spirit

– Overcoming Adversity

– Leadership

– Fair Trading

– Self-Belief and Determination

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