Clore Social Leadership, in partnership with the Wales Co-Operative Centre has launched a new leadership development programme for the Welsh third sector in 2021. The programme is free, delivered online and open to social leaders and future leaders within the third sector in all parts of Wales, courses include: Emerging Leader Cymru – application deadline 12 July 2021 Experienced Leader Cymru – application deadline 19 July 2021 Board Leader Cymru – application deadline 26 July...
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UK businesses and other organisations will benefit from unrestricted personal data transfers. Personal data can continue to flow freely between Europe and the UK following agreement by the European Union to adopt ‘data adequacy’ decisions. Formal adoption of the decisions under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law Enforcement Directive (LED) allows personal data to flow freely from the EU and wider European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK. The decisions mean that...
Applications are now open for UK businesses, innovators and researchers to access billions of pounds of funding through the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) is urging businesses, innovators and researchers to apply for access to new markets, capabilities and technologies as well as billions of pounds of funding through the Horizon Europe scheme. Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion...
The Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) Business Council is reaching out to businesses to determine the services they want for future growth. The Business Council board is responsible for articulating the needs of business, identifying priorities for existing support services and designing future support programmes, ensuring that the voice of business is at the heart of the Cardiff Capital Region’s strategy and decision making. Committed to determining and facilitating access to the tools and services needed...
The Welsh Government is reminding retail, leisure and hospitality businesses in Wales they won’t have to pay any rates until April 2022 as full discounts in England come to an end on 1 July 2021. In Wales, the Welsh Government has extended the full 100 per cent discount for all businesses and charities in the leisure and hospitality sectors until April 2022. Retailers in properties with a rateable value of up to £500,000 will also...
The Tenancy Hardship Grant is designed to support people who have fallen behind on their rent by more than eight weeks between 1 March 2020 and 30 June 2021. The grant is designed to help people stay in their homes and prevent them losing their tenancies. People living in private rented accommodation who have developed rent arrears as a direct result of the pandemic may be eligible for the grant. Rent arrears may have been...
Claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) are now open for pay periods in June 2021. You must submit your claim for June 2021 by 14 July 2021. Here’s a future claim dates reminder: for furlough days in July 2021 submit claim by 16 August 2021 for furlough days in August 2021 submit claim by 14 September 2021 for furlough days in September 2021 submit claim by 14 October 2021 For further information please...
A new mentorship programme to help UK farmers and food producers boost their exports has been launched by the Department for International Trade (DIT). The programme, run in partnership with Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), and the National Farmers Union (NFU), will match experienced exporters with businesses who are looking to export for the first time. The mentors will give practical help and advice to would-be exporters through roundtables, mentoring sessions and newsletters. For...
Shared Parental Leave and Pay allows working parents across Great Britain to share up to 50 weeks of leave and up to 37 weeks of pay in the first year of their child’s life (or within a year of placement if the child is adopted). A new online tool will help expectant parents share time off in the key, early stages of their baby’s life. The new tool will make it easier for expectant parents...
The Bank of England’s new polymer £50 entered circulation on 23 June 2021. It features the scientist Alan Turing. The new note will start to become available in bank branches and at ATM’s in the coming days and weeks. The polymer £50 note contains advanced security features. The note will join the Churchill £5, the Austen £10 and the Turner £20, meaning all Bank of England banknotes are now available on polymer. There are resource...