A guest blog from Building Legacies client and Trainer, Renée Wallen of Imaginative Training and Development Ltd, trading as Weekend Witch Social Media. I vividly remember meeting Glen Addis, now the head of East London Business Place (ELBP) and its Building Legacies project – but I couldn’t put a time frame on it. I just…
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For some people the answer to the question “is cooking your worst nightmare” would be a resounding, yes, yes, and yes. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. Let’s explore a few reasons why? Firstly, cooking can be meditative. With busy lives and demanding routines, more and more people are looking for ways to…
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It has been a long year and being isolated from others is beginning to feel like a way of life. Working from home, treating Zoom as a routine way of communicating not just with the office but with friends and loved ones. We’ve been getting so used to standing apart and talking through masks, avoiding…
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Extra Financial Support for Businesses Following the introduction of the new Covid-19 lockdown in England, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, has announced further financial help for businesses that are affected. The package, worth £4.6 billion, will come as grants aimed at supporting businesses and protecting jobs. Here is a summary of the new…
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Chancellor of The Exchequer’s UK Economic Update – 22/ 10/ 2020 Introduction: Although it is only just over three weeks since the Chancellor announced a number of state-funded schemes and interventions to support businesses and individuals who have been adversely affected economically as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic – most notably the new Job…
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The Key Measures: The Job Support Scheme (JSS) will be expanded to support businesses across the UK that are required to close their premises due to Coronavirus restrictions. The Government will pay two-thirds of employees’ salaries to protect jobs over the coming months. Cash grants for businesses required to close in local lockdowns will also…
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Government’s New £9 Billion Job Retention Bonus Package Headlines: The Job Retention Bonus is set to support millions of employers who have retained furloughed workers The bonus will work alongside the newly announced Job Support Scheme and could be worth more than 60% of average wages of workers who have been furloughed – and are…
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Chancellor of The Exchequer’s UK Economic Update – 24th September 2020 During the last six months the UK Government has initiated a number of state-funded schemes and interventions to support businesses and individuals who have been adversely affected economically as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. One of the largest support packages is the Coronavirus…
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Is your organisation able to create a role to provide a young person with the work experience that they need to begin their future career? Would you like these costs covered by the government? The government has now launched £2 billion Kickstart scheme to help create hundreds of meaningful jobs for young people aged 16-24, who…
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From the Friday, 18 September 2020 it will be formally mandatorily for premises and venues across England to have a system in place to record contact details of their customers, visitors and staff in the latest move to break the chains of transmission of coronavirus. Businesses and other public settings where people meet socially including…
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