If you’d told me 10 years ago that Paraplanners would don warpaint once a year and happily gather to chew over technical issues in a giant teepee in Northants I might have suggested you’d been smoking the peace pipe a bit too long.

Paraplanners are gathering in teepees in rolling hills in Aynho, Northants.

Starting is hard. Starting from scratch with a blank canvas is surprisingly scary and suddenly every distraction known to man is much more exciting. How you start isn’t irrelevant, but that you do start is crucial.

The number of firms with no Paraplanners grew in the last year, according to an exclusive Financial Planning Today survey.