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The Budget – Business Link will produce summary for business

March 19, 2010 Business

The Budget – Business Link will produce summary for business

Businesses keen to find out how the 2010 Budget affects them are encouraged to visit www.businesslink.gov.uk/budget on 24th March 2010. Once the Chancellor has delivered his Budget speech, a summary of key points will be created specifically for businesses and published on [...]

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Clean energy cash back for businesses and households which generate low carbon electricity

March 18, 2010 Business

From April, businesses, communities and householders will be encouraged to generate small scale low carbon electricity for the national grid.  Those who invest in energy generating technologies such as wind turbines and solar panels will be paid for the electricity generated through index linked feed-in tariffs and save on bills.  [...]

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THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS AND STUDENT PLACEMENTS

March 13, 2010 Business

THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS AND STUDENT PLACEMENTS

Winchester Business School is the venue for a business breakfast being organised by the Southampton Branch of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and to be held on Friday 9th April.  Neil Marriott, Dean of the Winchester Business School, will offer an insight into the future of business [...]

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Managing Your Way into the Recovery

March 9, 2010 Business

Managing Your Way into the Recovery

The recession is ‘officially’ over and the economy has recorded 0.1 % growth.  Business confidence is reported to be growing, but there is still a long way to go for recovery.  Now is the time to ensure your business is ready and can [...]

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FSB AND IOW COUNCIL MEET TO BENEFIT BUSINESS

March 9, 2010 Business

The Isle of Wight Branch of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and representatives of the Isle of Wight Council have met to discuss issues vital to small businesses on the Island. This was the second in a series of scheduled meetings. The FSB wants regular consultation with the Council to ensure that the views [...]

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VAT

February 23, 2010 Business

When VAT was temporarily reduced to 15%, the Chancellor added 2% duty to fuel to offset the reduction in tax collected from motorists.

Now that VAT has been increased back to 17.5% again this hidden tax has not been removed – hence recent rises in your fuel costs.

Sign the petition at the link below to have [...]

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Business Link launches new online service for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Farmers

February 23, 2010 Business
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Business Link has launched a new online resource to help farmers and growers understand farming regulations, and manage the daily challenges of running a successful farming business.

www.businesslink.gov.uk/southeast/farming is a dedicated new section on the Business Link website, which provides farmers in Hampshire and Isle of Wight with practical information and guidance [...]

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LORD MANDLESON TO APPEAR AT FSB ANNUAL CONFERENCE

February 14, 2010 Business
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Lord Mandelson confirmed to be attending the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB) conference in Aberdeen

Small businesses will be hearing from a cross party line-up at the FSB’s Annual Conference this year, just before the country goes to the polls.

Lord Mandelson and the First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond will both address the conference, [...]

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The Utility Warehouse

January 29, 2010 Business
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The Utility Warehouse provides over 300,000 customers throughout the UK with substantial savings on a wide range of utility services including home phone, mobile, broadband, gas and electricity.  They provide their members with great value, great savings and the best possible customer service. Perhaps it’s not surprising that in a recent survey, over 94% of [...]

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DEFAULT RETIREMENT AGE SHOULD BE SCRAPPED SAYS FSB

January 20, 2010 Business
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The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is supporting the Government’s proposal to bring forward the review on the default retirement age saying its members think that it should be scrapped.

New research by the FSB shows that 60 per cent of small businesses do not think the Government should set a default retirement age. However, the [...]

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Andrew Lansley MP to visit Island

January 19, 2010 Business
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The Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley CBE MP is to visit the Island on Wednesday 20th January. His visit is at the invitation of the Island’s MP Andrew Turner who asked him to come and see how the Island’s health service has responded to the re-organisation of the former NHS Trust and Primary Care [...]

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Bad Weather brings Mixed Fortunes to Small Businesses

January 12, 2010 Business
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With the bad weather expected to continue for several more days, small businesses owners have very varied reactions to the problems they are facing, says The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). Many small shops – particularly in rural areas – are reporting an increase in business as their customers are unable to get to larger [...]

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Wikaniko (pronounced we-can-eco)

January 3, 2010 Business

There is much talk of “green” issues these days but it can all become very confusing and it is difficult to know who to believe.

Wikaniko (pronounced we-can-eco) is a company that helps everyone to “do their bit” . The company believes that people do care about the damage that is being done to the planet [...]

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How does Father Christmas do it?

December 26, 2009 Business

Andrew Turner, the Island’s MP, says he is writing to congratulate Father Christmas for being able to continue his very successful global operation delivering Christmas presents across the world in these days of political correctness and Health and Safety bureaucracy.  Mr Turner highlighted just a few of the rules and [...]

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Barefoot sale extended!

December 21, 2009 Business
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December 18, 2009 Business

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