Small Business Saturday, held on 1 December, saw an estimated £812 million spent with small businesses across the UK according to research commissioned by founder and principal supporter American Express.
A new grant scheme to encourage people to think how they might work differently to support young people to live and work in the Lakes and Dales has been launched.
Applications are now open for a new Dragons’ Den-style competition that will give people from Gloucestershire the chance to see their food and drink products or ideas appear on supermarket shelves across the county.
Small-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and battery storage are looking increasingly attractive as capital costs decline and energy prices rise, but farms and estates should be aware of mis-selling in the market.
It’s estimated that the global ground source heating market will grow by 13% and be worth a billion pounds by 2020, and uptake in the UK is in line with the forecast, as more farmers turn to the systems which transfer renewable heat and cooling from the ground.
New research has revealed British consumers think they can get equally good deals all-year-round, regardless of the popular Black Friday deals, with the scale of the event putting many off altogether.
High demand for a broadband voucher scheme means the government is urging farm and rural businesses to take advantage of the offering before the funding runs out.
Prime viticultural land for new and expanding vineyards in the UK could be a major rival to the Champagne region of France according to the University of East Anglia (UEA).
A survey of 200 farms has found that less than a third of diversified businesses had taken Inheritance Tax (IHT) reliefs into consideration when drawing up their business plans potentially leaving themselves exposed to paying more tax than they need.
One woman’s Facebook group has had a huge impact on helping tackle loneliness and isolation in the countryside and made her a heroine to thousands of women across the UK.
The latest government figures show that the number of people starting an apprenticeship has continued to fall since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in April 2017.