Last week, I gave a short speech to a group of 15 or 20 aspiring young business people who were putting themselves forward for Prince’s Trust funding. The event provided these young people with a few days of training and some tips from hard seasoned campaigners like myself.
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I recently saw David Cameron interviewed on the Andrew Marr programme announcing how a future Conservative government would take steps to speed up the process for new businesses to get started.
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The Freedom of Information Act is something that I was vaguely aware of, but largely passed me by both in terms of its introduction and its value. However, seeking some information recently about details on the numbers of tax returns filed, and failing to find the information I wanted on the HMRC website, I decided [...]
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HMRC have announced that they are changing their banking arrangements for the purposes of VAT. The notice itself, which must have been sent to many thousands of businesses up and down the land, advises VAT registered businesses that they are changing to two new commercial banks namely Citi and Royal Bank of Scotland Group. As [...]
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Employment law is one of a number of areas where the small firm simply does not have the same resources as its larger counterpart.
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A recent report in Accountancy informed its readers that accountants have been pipped to the post by lawyers in the area of extra-marital affairs.
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We have a corporate Paypal account in our subsidiary company the Made Simple Group which is proving quite successful for both our virtual office service sites at Londonpresence.com and Thisisyouroffice.com .
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I’ve got a lot to thank my parents for and I am sure (hope) that I remind them of this continually. However, there is one thing that perhaps they didn’t think through so carefully and that was the name they gave me. Whilst I myself don’t really have a problem with the name, it would [...]
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They are digging up the road again outside my office. Apart from the noise, dust and traffic disruption, all of which are a real pain, it causes me personally great irritation and annoyance particularly with the knowledge that this is about the 5th time they have dug up this section of road in the last [...]
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For those of you who are regular visitors to our Westbury website, you may or may not have been impressed by the business news feed that appears on a regular basis. For those of you who were under the impression that I had a team of journalists writing these articles on a regular basis, I [...]
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