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Top 10 cybersecurity threats SMEs in 2025
In 2025, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face a cybersecurity landscape that’s more complex and dangerous than ever before. With attackers increasingly targeting smaller businesses due to perceived vulnerabilities, it’s crucial for SMEs to understand the...
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Top 10 cybersecurity threats SMEs in 2025
In 2025, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face a cybersecurity landscape that’s more complex and dangerous than ever before. With attackers increasingly targeting smaller businesses due to perceived vulnerabilities, it’s crucial for SMEs to understand the...
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Core turns 1
Core Financial Efficiencies celebrated completing its first year of trade in April 2025. For Core, the journey through its first year of operations has been one of learning, adapting, and growing with each passing day. When trading began in spring 2024, the road ahead...
FAUN Zoeller UK CEO Simon Hyde Awarded Prestigious Fellowship from the Institute of the Motor Industry
FAUN Zoeller UK (FZUK) is proud to announce that its CEO, Simon Hyde, has been awarded a Fellowship from the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), alongside recognition as a Certificated Automotive Engineer, for his outstanding contributions to hydrogen technology...
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Simeon Chapman Celebrates 13 Years of Good Luck at Hazelton Mountford
Group Director, Simeon Chapman, is celebrating thirteen years at local chartered insurance brokers Hazelton Mountford. Simeon has spent the past 13 years learning and building the business with his fellow Directors Gordon Hazelton and Jake Mountford. Hazelton...
Warning to Homeowners Against Installing Spray Foam Loft Insulation
Worcestershire homeowners are being warned against installing spray foam loft insulation by legal property experts, amid a rise in lenders refusing mortgages and homes potentially being rendered uninsurable. Experts from local law firm mfg Solicitors are urging people...
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BCC Brexit survey: Half of UK exporters report difficulties adapting to changes relating to EU-UK goods trade
Results from the first major business survey for 2021 by the British Chambers of Commerce on Brexit found that half (49%) of exporters are facing difficulties in adapting to the changes in the trade of goods following the ratification of the UK-EU Trade and...
Employers urged to have their say on the Skills agenda
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is keen to make sure the Government’s wider skills offers continue to meet the needs of employers looking to develop their future talent; as well as individuals looking to progress in their careers. The following link opens a series of questions seeking employers insight and observations on a number of issues.
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BCC & Barclays LifeSkills release report revealing businesses’ thoughts on futureproofing for a post-pandemic world
The British Chambers of Commerce and Barclays LifeSkills have today (Friday 23 April) released a new report entitled ‘The Next Normal: Futureproofing the Workforce for a Post-Pandemic World’. The report seeks to tackle questions around the workforce challenges faced...
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BCC & Barclays LifeSkills release report revealing businesses’ thoughts on futureproofing for a post-pandemic world
The British Chambers of Commerce and Barclays LifeSkills have today (Friday 23 April) released a new report entitled ‘The Next Normal: Futureproofing the Workforce for a Post-Pandemic World’. The report seeks to tackle questions around the workforce challenges faced...
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Help to Grow your business – Management
Take your business to the next level with the government’s new Help to Grow programme. The programme will help small and medium sized businesses across the UK learn new skills, reach new customers and boost profits.
Help to Grow your business – Digital
Take your business to the next level with the government’s new Help to Grow programme. The programme will help small and medium sized businesses across the UK learn new skills, reach new customers and boost profits.
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“Lockdown” learning for apprentices
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Group Training Association (HWGTA) Apprentices, Staff and Employers faced uncertainty back in March, with the Training Centres closed and many learners on furlough during the Covid-19 “lockdown”. Despite the speed of the...
Chat with a friendly British English Qualified Teacher to build your confidence and improve your Spoken English.
Brook Language Services is pleased to announce that it has been accepted into the Native Speakers Partnership Pool of ProZ.com, the membership-based website for freelance translators and interpreters, and now offers Native Speaker British English sessions via Zoom or...
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Launches Festive Appeal to Raise £20,000 this Christmas
Charity launches Festive Appeal to raise £20,000 this Christmas to provide 20 more day beds for hospitals’ Palliative and End of Life Care Team Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to providing high quality supportive care for patients, and those...
Marches LEP’s Record of Success Detailed in New Annual Report
The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership today published its annual report – detailing the key successes the organisation has helped drive over the last 12 months. The LEP – which covers Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin – says it has continued to...
Expert lawyer issues alert on late cancer treatment claims
An expert injury and negligence solicitor has warned of an upturn in claims arising from delays in cancer treatment following new national performance targets being introduced. David Lydon, a Senior Personal Injury Clinical Negligence specialist at Worcestershire law...
THE LYGON ARMS NAMED AS THE COTSWOLDS BEST HOTEL OF THE YEAR 2023
With Christmas lights adorning the ancient 14th century coaching inn, nestled in the heart of picturesque Broadway, the team will have even more to celebrate this festive season, with the announcement that The Lygon Arms has been voted the ‘Cotswolds Best Hotel of the...
Winners announced in Herefordshire’s inaugural Greener Footprints Business Champions Awards
As we head into 2024, there’s clearly real ambition across businesses, organisations and their employees to see a transformation when it comes to climate action. As Greener Footprints announce the winners of their Business Champions Awards they have, they say,...
JMDA Features in King Charles III 75th Birthday Commemorative Album
The King Charles III book that launched on the monarch’s 75th birthday, features JMDA Design, the cutting-edge product design consultancy and winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2019. Publisher St James’s House and royal biographer Robert...
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