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Autumn Budget 2025: Your detailed summary
Rachel Reeves’s second Budget boosts welfare spending paid for through stealth tax rises, and taxes on property, savings and dividends. Income tax rates remain unchanged, but frozen thresholds for a further three years and wealth-focused levies do the heavy lifting. ...
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Autumn Budget 2025: Your detailed summary
Rachel Reeves’s second Budget boosts welfare spending paid for through stealth tax rises, and taxes on property, savings and dividends. Income tax rates remain unchanged, but frozen thresholds for a further three years and wealth-focused levies do the heavy lifting. ...
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Leadership consultants celebrate 1st anniversary of popular podcast.
Award winning Business consultants Strategus Consulting are delighted to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Leaders In Strategy Podcast, hosted by Mike Harris (pictured). The Podcast has been a big success reaching over 350 people every month. With a regular...
Member to member collaboration between Hazelton Mountford and You Do Better
Strategic Members Hazelton Mountford Group partnered with member You Do Better from 2020. Since then, the company has benefited from expert marketing and public relations support. As Independent Chartered Insurance Brokers, Hazelton Mountford offer expert advice and...
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Thursfields Solicitors welcomes Nadia Davis, as Director and Head of Family Law in Birmingham
Thursfields Solicitors confirms the appointment of Nadia Davis as Director and Head of Family Law in Birmingham. Nadia is a highly experienced family law practitioner with over 30 years of experience. She will be focussed on developing Thursfields’ service offering to...
Three new careers begin at Hazelton Mountford
Further to a recruitment drive, including an Apprenticeship Day, Hazelton Mountford have successfully onboarded three new starters to join the growing HM Referencing team and Chartered Insurance Brokers, based in the heart of Worcester city. CAPTION: L-R: Ethan...
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Government releases information on the Job Retention Bonus (JRB)
On Friday 31 July, the government published further information on the Job Retention Bonus (JRB)
Government ‘squeezes the break’ on easing of lockdown restrictions
Action has been taken as the Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a “squeezing of the break pedal” pausing the easing of restrictions across England that were due to take place over the weekend amid concerns of an increase in Coronavirus cases. Wedding receptions of...
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ONS’ labour market figures September 2020
May to July figures show an increase in the unemployment rate; despite this increase and an increase in the number of redundancies, the employment rate is still not falling. Though still large, the reductions in total hours worked both on the year and the quarter are...
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ONS’ labour market figures September 2020
May to July figures show an increase in the unemployment rate; despite this increase and an increase in the number of redundancies, the employment rate is still not falling. Though still large, the reductions in total hours worked both on the year and the quarter are...
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EU & UK Representative (Article 27 GDPR)
With only eleven weeks to go before the UK leave the EU with or without a deal, there are a number of practical steps SMEs should consider doing now to help prepare for the transition. 1. Data transfers Do you process any personal data from clients or customers in the...
What does the 3-tier lockdown mean for Herefordshire & Worcestershire?
In his address to the Commons on Monday 13 October, prime minister Boris Johnson outlined the new three-tiered scheme, though said the exact criteria will not be worked out until Tuesday, eventually coming into effect on Wednesday (October 14).
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10 Top Tips to Keep your House Safe Whilst on Holiday
It’s holiday season and I bet you are super excited to go on holiday, escape the office and perhaps try some extreme sports. Before you go away why not read our 10 top tips for keeping your property safe and secure while you are away. Taking proactive steps before you...
JMDA Design Looks Forward To Kind + Jugend 2023
JMDA Design will once again be attending the Kind + Jugend International Nursery Fair which runs from the 7th to 9th September in Cologne, with the team eager to connect with both new and existing contacts, with a fresh look at nursery industry product design trends....
How Could Artificial Intelligence Impact Workplace Safety?
Artificial Intelligence has been continually in the news as the latest technology to revolutionise the way we live and work, but is it to be feared or embraced? Either way it looks like it’s here to stay. This article provides more detail on AI technology, outlines...
Little BigPaw Awarded the Kings Award for Enterprise.
His Majesty King Charles has awarded The First Class Pet Company Limited, the team behind the LITTLE BIGPAW brand, with the Kings Award for Enterprise for International Trade. Little BigPaw is one of only 148 organisations nationally to be recognised with the...
Strategic Professional welcome two interns over summer
Strategic professionals are welcoming two new interns over the summer in a move to give students valuable real-world experience. The business, which focuses on training and development for companies and individuals, is giving its two marketing interns the opportunity...
Nifty Communications wins Women’s Sports Alliance contract
The new business klaxon has sounded once again at Nifty Communications, as the sports marketing agency announces its latest client, the Women’s Sports Alliance (WSA). This announcement comes just weeks after Nifty announced its work with Warriors Women RFC, as the...
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