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Businesses compete for share of £950M growth fund
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has received more than 490 bids competing for a share of £950 million from the Regional Growth Fund.
Sunday 8 November 2026
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has received more than 490 bids competing for a share of £950 million from the Regional Growth Fund.
According to the survey more than three-quarters of 11 to 18-year-olds say they would like to start their own business in the future and just under…
The conciliation service Acas has seen a 15 per cent rise in demand for its help dealing with industrial disputes during the past year.
Plans to scrap or simplify more than 160 regulations, freeing the public and retailers from rules that are unnecessarily burdensome, overly bureaucratic or completely redundant have…
Administration appointments in England have fallen to their lowest level since the end of 2007, well before the current financial crisis, according to data published today.
With almost every new policy passed or law made members of the Forum of Private Business become increasingly frustrated that politicians simply don’t seem to understand…
Business Secretary Vince Cable has announced Government backing for employer led projects to deliver the skills for growth in sectors ranging from healthcare to nuclear manufacturing.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has appointed Careline Services, in partnership with the Business and Enterprise Group, to provide its new Business Link…
Enterprise UK, the non-profit making body, formerly chaired by the leading entrepreneur, Dragons’ Den panelist and founder of the National Enterprise Academy, Peter Jones which received…
EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the promotion of export services to manufacturing…
A nationwide poll today reveals that 58 per cent of the UK’s workforce believes that companies will no longer require an office space to do business…
Over 200 current and former bank managers have signed up to form the core of a national mentoring scheme being rolled out today with Barclays, HSBC,…
New data released from eBay shows that over 45,000 new businesses have registered on the UK online auction site since September 2008. However despite the continued…
Men are better at online business networking than women according to data produced by LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network. It claims that data it has…
eBay businesses, private tutors and cash-in-hand traders are now becoming the focus of HM Revenue & Custom investigations in its latest efforts to recover around £7bn…