Collaboration will mean SMEs can secure finance and energy products at competitive rates from multiple providers via a single marketplace Business Finance marketplace Funding Options has teamed up with Love Energy Savings, the UK’s leading energy comparison experts for gas and electricity, to offer unbiased and fair comparisons on over 150 business tariffs from over 17 providers. The strategic partnership will help business owners save time and money sourcing the best energy offers from the same platform they use to find growth finance. UK SMEs currently spend over £7 billion a year on gas, but if they switched suppliers they…
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For England, the 19th of July was dubbed as, ‘Freedom Day.’ We have been gifted with the easing of social gathering restrictions, social distancing rules have in large, been lifted and face coverings are no longer a mandatory requirement. However, what is disconcerting is that on Freedom Day the soaring covid infection rates have triggered ‘pingdemic’ chaos. In the first week of July, more than half a million (530,126) alerts were issued by the NHS Covid-19 track and trace app, requesting people to self-isolate for ten days, following contact with anyone who has tested positive for Covid-19. This figure is…
‘Freedom day’ has come and gone and a heatwave is well and truly upon us. Many employees will be considering venturing back into their offices this week, and indeed, what to wear. However, with many of us having worked from home for well over a year now, often dare I say it, in joggers, I have started to wonder, does dress code even matter in the workplace these days? Do we really need to go back to the office suited and booted, or can we get away with our joggers and a hoodie for ever more? What is the middle…
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, is joining forces with Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills MBE, to inspire UK micro-businesses to become more sustainable. Through its partnership with Team GB for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, GoDaddy has teamed up with Mills, who is going for gold again this Summer, to support her Big Plastic Pledge initiative. The campaign looks to eradicate single-use plastics in sport through simple and easy-to-deploy solutions for competitors, spectators, sports clubs and governing bodies. GoDaddy is helping to take the Pledge to the next level by developing, redesigning and hosting new…
Embello, a leading printing and merchandise company in the Midlands, has been busy providing branded football kit to Premier League player Marc Albrighton as he launches his academy for young players at Tamworth Football Club. The Leicester City player who has enjoyed a prestigious career with Leicester City for seven years and previously with Aston Villa, has already set up his own Centre of Development. His aim is to encourage and support children into the sport of football from a young age across the Midlands. He’s now launching an academy at Tamworth Football Club and hopes to encourage up to…
One of the UK’s leading independent fostering agency, Banya, is looking forward to their young foster children, carers and workers engaging with the Be Inspired event to empower young people who have experienced care, which takes place on Friday 30th July. Be Inspired is an entertaining virtual event originally set up by tv journalist Ashley John-Baptiste who was brought up in foster care himself. Its aim is to inspire, empower and equip young people who have experienced the care system, who want to take hold of their future, learn about different career opportunities, spark aspiration and drive ambition. This year’s theme…
TWC IT Solutions, one of the leading IT companies for SMEs in London with more than 300 clients across seven industries, operating in 24 countries, celebrates its 10-year anniversary and launches industry-based IT support packages, tailormade to the needs of each sector to help businesses thrive in the post-COVID-19 era. Key benefits of the new IT Packages are: Tailored packages for the financial market, recruitment industry and CRM telephony services Comprehensive managed services within the regulatory, GDPR and FCA compliant framework, enabling greater focus to grow your business A suite of applications including Cybersecurity, IT Support, Telephony, Business Grade Internet…
There has been a wave of entrepreneurialism’ as 726,000 new UK startups opened in Covid year. The number of new businesses started in the UK increased by 14% in the last year despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, outpacing the global average of a 6% increase in business start-ups, shows a new study by UHY, the international accountancy network (see table below). UHY’s study shows that there were almost 726,000 new businesses created in the UK in 2020 compared to just over 636,000 in 2019. The UK ranks in the top 5 out of 22 countries studied in UHY’s…
Additional time on people’s hands as a result of the pandemic has prompted the average British worker to pick up a range of good habits for their careers, according to a new study by Hitachi Capital Business Finance. The poll of 1,500 British workers in small businesses, made up of remote, hybrid, outdoor and workplace based respondents from a range of sectors, revealed that three-quarters (74%) have developed new rituals during lockdown, with the average worker picking up at least two new habits. Asking about their intentions to continue these habits for at least the next 12 months, 91% of…
Managers, directors and senior officials are just a few of the roles that are instrumental in businesses being successful and growing. Now, a new report has revealed an increase in the number of positions filled across the UK – signalling a boom in innovation. The trade trends report 2021 released by Skills Training Group has analysed 16 years worth of data from the Office for National Statistics to assess the state of the UK workforce. In the report, it revealed a boom in the number of c-suite job roles, with managers, directors and senior officials increasing by 35.88% over the…