London, UK, ZEDRA, the fast-growing global specialist in Active Wealth, Global Expansion and Fund Services, today announces the acquisition of Inside Pensions, the UK’s leading independent occupational pension scheme governance support provider. The transaction is in line with the firm’s aim to diversify its service offering and expand its presence in the pension services space. Established in 2008, Inside Pensions provides a dedicated and experienced resource to assist trustee boards of pension trusts to run their schemes efficiently and effectively by ensuring compliant board administration and best practice governance. The firm has a portfolio of blue-chip clients and operates from St.…
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Qualified nutritional therapist Caroline Peyton of Peyton Principles has pledged to support community charity The Churn Project for the rest of 2021. Caroline, who has run clinics in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire for 11 years will be undertaking a series of activities to support the work carried out by The Churn team who provide services for hundreds of local people in the Cirencester area, reducing isolation, promoting wellbeing and creating opportunities to learn and achieve. “This year I wanted to give something back to the community,” Caroline said. “In what has been a very challenging year for all of us, I’m…
UK nutrition and ‘free-from’ brand, Creative Nature, has welcomed Trudi Austin to the team to spearhead sales and to embrace new markets in 2021 and beyond. Trudi (48) has an impressive 26 year career across the food and drinks industry, specialising in the growth and development of brands including Birds Eye, Britvic and Lucozade. In recent years Trudi has moved into the SME business area to utilise her strong FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) background and skills to develop both UK and overseas business across numerous channels. “Julianne Ponan, the CEO of Creative Nature, is inspirational not only in developing…
Commenting on Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s announcement of new ‘pay-as-you-grow’ repayment terms for Bounce Bank loans scheme, Rob Straathof, CEO of embedded business finance platform Liberis, stated: “We support Chancellor Sunak’s move towards providing SMEs with more flexible loan repayment terms for the Bounce Back loans scheme. This move will surely be received positively by those SMEs struggling to start repayment whilst the UK economy remains in lockdown. While this is a welcome announcement, the Chancellor should consider further support for SMEs with flexible payments based on SME revenues. Based on Liberis’ data over more than a decade providing SME financing…
Grandfather Tony Campbell has taken his 20-year-old maths toolkit which has helped Special Needs Education professionals nationwide, and adapted it for home-schooling. The new “Maths Home Schooling Kit” which can be ordered online contains flexible tables allowing primary school children up to Year 7 to grasp the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and fractions. Like many parents and grandparents, Tony, who lives in Northampton, is concerned about how the closure of schools will impact on children’s education. “I’m seeing the challenges home-schooling is having for parents and children – even with my own grandchildren. My grown-up daughter, Jemma, is dyslexic and she…
The British Business Bank, the UK’s economic development bank, today announces further details of Pay As You Grow, which helps UK smaller businesses that have taken out a Covid-19 emergency Bounce Back Loan to manage their cashflow and have a better chance of getting back to growth. Originally announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in September 2020, Pay As You Grow (PAYG) will enable businesses who have started repaying their Bounce Back Loans to: request an extension of their loan term to 10 years from six years, at the same fixed interest rate of 2.5% reduce their monthly repayments…
Onecom has acquired its closest rival, Olive Communications, in a move which creates the largest business-to-business mobile, fixed-line and cloud specialist in the UK. Together, Onecom and Olive will provide services to more than 500,000 corporate and business end users this year, generating combined annual turnover of more than £140m. The acquisition was supported with follow-on funding from mid-market private equity firm LDC, which invested in Onecom in a £100m deal in July 2019 to fuel the Hampshire-based business’s ambitious three-year growth strategy. Growth capital investor BGF, which invested £10million into Olive in 2016, has exited the business as part of…
During National Apprenticeship Week we look how senior Low Level Waste Repository Ltd (LLWR) executives benefitted greatly from apprenticeships as teenagers. Two of LLWR’s most senior personnel are fine adverts for what can be achieved by going down the apprenticeship route after leaving school. CEO Designate Martin Walkingshaw and Becky Ruddy, Head of Infrastructure, were both given a solid grounding in the nuclear industry as Sellafield apprentices. Martin, currently Deputy CEO, hailed his apprenticeship with British Nuclear Fuels as a “great foundation” for his subsequent career. Martin said, “I occasionally tease people who went down the university route that when…
The government has today announced the appointment of Sir Kevan Collins as the government’s Education Recovery Commissioner, to oversee a comprehensive programme of catch-up aimed at young people who have lost out on learning due to the pandemic. The reopening of schools is a national priority. The Prime Minister recognises that school closures have had a huge impact on children’s learning and has pledged to work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure pupils have the chance to make up their learning over the course of this Parliament. Sir Kevan will lead this work.…
Investment group MML Capital has announced it has invested £40m into Western Global, the leading provider of industrial liquid storage and dispensing solutions. The deal represents the latest in a series of transactions which has seen MML successfully complete 15 transactions in the last 12 months. Founded as a family business in the UK, Western Global has grown impressively expanding across Europe and North America. Today, Western Global is the leading provider of portable tanks and dispensing equipment for the storage and handling of fuels, lubricants and other fluids. With safety and the environment high on its agenda, Western Global…