Whether you are a large, medium or small business, disruptions due to the weather can happen anywhere at any time. Taking time to plan and prepare your business can save you time and money when something untoward happens. There are simple steps all businesses can take to ensure that they are prepared for adverse weather such as: signing up for flood warnings installing flood protection systems checking your insurance policy covers weather damage to your...
Brought to you by Technology Connected, Wales Tech Week showcases Welsh technology and champions the industry on the global stage. It connects, promotes, and develops Wales as a centre of expertise for enabling and emerging technologies and their applications for today’s business and society. After two years of virtual, it’s now time to get physical. Wales Tech Week 2023 will be an international tech summit at the International Convention Centre Newport, from 16 to 18...
Surpluses in food businesses can arise for many reasons; for example, over-supplied, over-ordered, obsolete seasonal stock, off-specification, packaging issues, and production trials. By diverting this surplus stock to FareShare Cymru, you will be helping hundreds of charities across Wales. The Surplus with Purpose Cymru Fund aims to help make it easy for Welsh food and drink businesses, to donate their surplus, by overcoming any barriers to donation. This might include: Ensuring food is ‘donation-ready’ in...
Search to see how the average prices of hundreds of shopping items are changing. Inflation is a measure of how prices of goods and services are changing in the UK, and it can have a big impact on people’s household finances. Each month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) publishes the latest annual inflation rate, which measures the change in the price of regularly purchased items (known as the basket of goods and services) compared...
Julie James, Minister for Climate Change in the Welsh Government, has visited Neath to see how regeneration can help support town centres to thrive. The Minister visited the new leisure centre in Neath which opened earlier this year. The site includes a library and retail space as well as a swimming pool, gym and health suite. The development is an example of the ‘Town Centre First’ policy in action, with library and leisure facilities moving...
Vaughan Gething MS, Minister for Economy “Wales has a proud heritage in manufacturing and today around 150,000 people work in the sector which contributes over 16% of our national output, higher than any other single sector and notably higher than the UK average. It is vital that we have a coherent and holistic approach to how we bring stakeholders together to future-proof existing capability, take advantage of future opportunities and respond to some of our...
Are you at risk of cyber-attack? Cyber risks are one of the biggest threats to small and medium businesses in Wales (SMEs). If you are a business and use any of the following basic business tools, then you could be at risk: Use email Hold customer data Have a website Take online payments For the past two years, Swansea university has been funded by the Research Wales Innovation Fund, to look into the cyber resilience...
Helping to protect Wales from cyber-attacks, creating new jobs with a pipeline of future talent for the UK’s fast-growing cyber ecosystem is at the heart of a new Cyber Action Plan for Wales being launched today (3 May 2023) by Economy Minister Vaughan Gething: Four priorities in a new Cyber Action Plan for Wales: Growing the cyber sector, building a talent pipeline, boosting resilience, and protecting public services. The plan brings together government, industry, academia...
Celebrating the next generation of young professionals! The Young Professional Awards Wales recognises the next generation of business leaders. To be eligible to enter you must be 35 and under as of 5 October 2023 and working in Wales. This year’s categories include: Young Finance Professional of the Year Young Banking Professional of the Year Young Business Development Professional of the Year Young Construction Professional of the Year Young Digital and Tech Professional of the...
A first-of its kind competitive grant in Wales offering Delivery Grants between £50,000 and £250,000 to support peatland restoration is now open. The new competitive Delivery Grants has a total funding pot of £500,000 and is looking for applicants with a plan ready to action peatland restoration - from habitat recovery to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. You must apply before midnight on 1 July 2023. The Delivery Grant can be applied for through the...