News & Events

Reading Time • 2 mins With the banks still reluctant to lend, one possible alternative source of business finance is a government grant.

Reading Time • 2 mins Unemployment is rising to levels not seen in a decade as more and more firms shed staff. Some 600,000 jobs are predicted to go during the course of the next 12 months.

Reading Time • 2 mins A sharp downturn in the economy may not appear the most opportune time to push ahead with plans to attract new business.

Reading Time • 3 mins Money, as the current state of the economy forcibly reminds us, is in short supply. Credit and profit margins alike are being squeezed.

Reading Time • 2 mins Small and medium-sized businesses are axing jobs at a rate not seen for almost twenty years, the CBI has reported.

Reading Time • < 1 mins Employers are being reminded of increases to the amount of an employee’s weekly earnings that count towards statutory redundancy pay.

Reading Time • < 1 mins A report has found that government departments are still putting together legislation that affects businesses without due consideration of the cost to firms.

Reading Time • 2 mins Banks and building societies are boosting the bonuses they offer people opening new savings accounts in an effort to recruit extra customers.

Reading Time • 2 mins An independent review of the regulations affecting small businesses has made a number of recommendations aimed at helping firms comply with the law.

Reading Time • 2 mins Taxpayers are being reminded that they must submit their self assessment returns online by 31 January.