Federation of Small Businesses News Letter 8th January 2016
The latest South & East Yorkshire FSB Newsletter is now available. The array of issues addressed in this week’s edition includes:
FSB Regional Chairman’s New Year message
What can your MP do for you?
Free information sessions for Sheffield businesses
Join us online at the FSB Policy Conference 2016
Join FSB at Yorkshire’s primary networking event
Tech Nation visa scheme advice surgery
Three proves to be magic number for Human Recruitment
Business event offers chance to inspire next generation of apprentices
The HR Exchange monthly network
Is EU regulation a barrier
Lincolnshire Business Expo
On January 21st 2016 the Lincolnshire Business Magazine is hosting the first Lincolnshire Business Expo at the Lincolnshire Showground, showcasing and connecting businesses across the region.
There are a wide range of networking events, workshops and seminars.
Guest Speakers from the Institute of Directors , University of Lincoln, UKTI, Lincolnshire Investment network and other local business experts.
Exhibitors include many local businesses from across the region.
For registration details and how to be an exhibitor click here.
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Innovate UK: Energy Game Changer
Innovate UK is to invest up to £1.5 million in technical feasibility studies to encourage new entrants to the energy sector and stimulate the adoption of disruptive technologies.
The aim of this competition is to find innovative solutions to long-standing challenges faced by the energy sector. Innovate UK believe that game- changing technologies can solve these problems, either by the development of completely new ideas or through technology transfer from other sectors. They are therefore seeking proposals that are led by
Common Questions About Paying Your Self Assessment Tax Bill
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HMRC Business Help And Education Emails
Business help and education emails is a free service to provide you and your business with emails from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) that are tailored to your needs. They are designed to help you understand what you need to do and how to get it right first time.
There is a simple registration process to sign up to receive these emails and to allow HMRC to provide information that is tailored to your business needs.
HMRC will only use this information
Micro Business Matters Day – January 8th
On Friday January 8th it is Micro Business Matters Day organised by Enterprise Rockers ( founded by Tony Robinson OBE and Tina Boden), the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank via Kit Hargreaves of Apple Pear, Johnny and Ross of Engaging Education and Louise Upfold of Weasie Wears and Tom Arran our official photographer will be taking part in Enterprising Young People Hour thanks to our great supporters at KC.
As supporters of #MicroBizMattersDay website our young entrepreneurs feature as in the
Innovate UK Funding For Surface Engineering And Coating Technologies
Innovate UK is to invest up to £2 million in technical feasibility studies to stimulate innovative new concepts and applications in surface engineering and coatings, positioning the sector to identify potential areas for further innovation, and address the challenge areas for future growth.
The aim of this competition is to stimulate innovation in areas of the UK’s surface engineering and coating (SEAC) industry. These include:
the creation and evaluation of innovative and accessible real-time process control technology
process informatics
improved characterisation
techniques
the measurement of critical coating and surface
Innovate UK Future Retail Funding Competition – Digital Innovation
Innovate UK is offering businesses up to £35,000 (excluding VAT) each to encourage innovation around ‘future retail’, across the themes of food waste reduction, virtual fitting, seamless shopping and enhancing in-store and market experiences.
The contest
Innovate UK are looking for proposals from companies with innovative digital ideas to enhance experiences, services and processes across the retail landscape – namely optimising virtual fitting, improving accessibility of digital services in-store and at markets, empowering customers to reduce food waste, and streamlining the process
Federation of Small Businesses Newsletter 18th December
The latest South & East Yorkshire FSB Newsletter is now available. The array of issues addressed in this week’s edition includes:
What can your MP do for you?
Join FSB at Yorkshire’s primary networking event
Free information sessions for Sheffield businesses
An opportunity to link your business with education
RiDO’s Martyn Benson recognised with national award
John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank application deadline
Hull’s £4m Centre for Digital Innovation officially opens
Minister unveils UK’s first hybrid ‘tram train’ in South Yorkshire
Tour de Yorkshire 2016 route announced
Civil engineers work on
Employer collaboration, the key to unlocking business potential?
In business competing is the name of the game, but a new UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) report highlights why effective cooperation rather than competition can improve companies’ productivity.
The report draws lessons from the UKCES UK Futures Programme, which, through a series of ‘productivity challenges’, helps employers to pilot innovative solutions to address specific workforce development problems.
It demonstrates, across sectors such as construction, manufacturing and legal services, that with good project management and communication, businesses who would otherwise be competing