Four more businesses have successfully secured government support through the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) to create new jobs and boost growth in their local communities.
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The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Work Experience is a crucial way to teach employability skills
Since the 1980s work experience has provided important early lessons in the realities of employment for countless school pupils.
Business formations reach new peak with 500,000 deciding to go it alone
Business formations are on the rise in the UK, as more and more budding entrepreneurs turn their hand to self-employment. According to Companies House figures, 435,856 new businesses were registered in 2011, compared to 384,981 in 2010.
David Cameron: Tax cuts will restore business confidence
David Cameron has told small business owners that tax cuts and low interest rates rather than government spending will be key to restoring confidence in the economy.
Cameron Invites Entrepreneurs to Join the 2012 “StartUp Games”
Prime Minister David Cameron has extended an invitation to the world’s most outstanding startups to join the StartUp Games, a unique event to be held in London’s Tech City during the 2012 Paralympics, with participants and winners visiting the Olympic Park.
Unpaid overtime – The TUC gets it wrong AGAIN!
So the TUC has carried out a survey that has apparently found that two billion hours of overtime was carried out by British workers last year. On top of that, the union says that these extra hours could have resulted in a million extra jobs being created.
2012 hailed as year of the entrepreneur
With 1.5 million small business websites built this year, 2012 is already being tipped to be a landmark year for entrepreneurs
North/South business insolvency divide begins to widen
The latest Insolvency Index from Experian has revealed a widening North versus South business failure divide, with southern firms faring far better than their northern counterparts. London and the South East of England saw insolvency rates decrease between October and November, while company failures increased in the North East, North West and Yorkshire.
Businesses offer cautious backing over PM’s handling of Eurozone crisis
Small businesses quizzed by the UK Business Barometer indicate that they expect the Prime Minister’s veto on EU-wide treaty changes on Eurozone rules during recent crisis talks to have little impact on their day-to-day business.
Cost of running a business reaches record high for British manufacturers
The UK’s small manufacturing businesses risk being squeezed out of their domestic market as operational costs reach a new high, according to the latest quarterly Business Inflation Guide (BIG).
Government announces taskforce to boost finance options for businesses
Business Secretary Vince Cable today set out the next steps to diversify business finance, announcing details of an industry-led Taskforce to be led by Tim Breedon, Legal and General chief executive and current chairman of the Association of British Insurers.
Government set to transform frontline business inspections
Plans to change the way that businesses experience ‘frontline enforcement’, such as business inspections, were set out today by Business Secretary Vince Cable, including a full scale review of UK regulatory bodies and moves to cut the number of inspections for ‘compliant’ firms.
Clegg unveils £1 billion boost to Regional Growth Fund
The £1 billion boost to the Regional Growth Fund announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last week is expected to enable the fund to support around half a million jobs in total.
Mentoring essential for young entrepreneurs starting own business
The number of young entrepreneurs starting up their own business has increased by nearly a quarter in the past three years, according to research out today by Experian. However, it is not all good news as the finding also highlight that almost half of these businesses are wound up within two and a half years and a further 22 per cent fail between two and a half and three years.
Chancellor: ‘We need to consider the health and safety of the economy’
Chancellor George Osborne pledged to revitalise business by cutting red tape and ending a culture of employment tribunals as he gave a fairly pro-business Autumn Statement.
