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Contact Helo Blod today to order your free bilingual Open/Closed door sign. As well as ordering free lanyards and badges bearing the ‘Iaith Gwaith’ logo (which shows customers that you and/or your staff speak or are learning Welsh), you can now order bilingual Open/Closed signs via the Helo Blod website. To order your free signs, all you need to do is: Log into or create an account on the Helo Blod website by registering with...
The Innovation Leaders Summit (ILS) is the largest open-innovation matching event in Asia. The event will also feature the Tokyo Challenge 100 (T-100) Worldwide Startup Collaboration Matching. The T-100 contest invites startups from around the world and selects candidates for collaboration that match new business themes submitted by the 100 major corporations participating in T-100. Overseas startups can participate in Power Matching and T-100 online, enabling them to make their proposals directly to the executive...
The UK government, in collaboration with Innovate UK, recently launched Phase 1 competition of the Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (IETF). The Phase 1 funding for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, worth up to £30 million, will run until 28 October 2020 and is available in the form of a grant scheme available for: deployment of mature energy efficiency technologies that improve industrial process energy efficiency and reduce energy demand feasibility and engineering studies for projects...
The Welsh Government is further extending measures to protect businesses affected by coronavirus from eviction until the end of 2020. As part of action to support the business community amid continuing hardship due to Covid-19 the moratorium against forfeiture for the non-payment of rent, which was due to end on 30 September, will now run up to and include 31 December, 2020. Rent due should continue to be paid whenever possible, but the latest measure...
HMRC webinars can help you understand what business expenses you can claim. Join the live webinars for the latest information and the chance to ask questions using the on-screen text box. Business expenses for the self-employed Find out what business expenses are, what is and isn’t allowable, and how using simplified expenses can make life easier. Choose a date and time Car expenses for the self-employed If you’re using your own car for business, find...
The new measures will come into force at 6pm on Tuesday 22 September 2020, to protect people’s health and control the spread of the virus in the four local authority areas. The new restrictions will apply to everyone living in Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Newport: people will not be allowed to enter or leave these areas without a reasonable excuse, such as travel for work or education people will only be able to...
Festival UK* 2022 will be ten open, original, optimistic, large-scale and extraordinary acts of public engagement that will showcase the UK's creativity and innovation to the world. The search is on for the greatest minds and brightest talents drawn from the worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, in Wales, to form Creative Teams capable of developing major public engagement projects that will showcase the UK’s creativity and innovation on a global scale. Ideas...
HMRC have written to VAT-registered businesses in Great Britain trading with the EU, or the EU and the rest of the world. They explain what businesses need to do to prepare for new processes for moving goods between Great Britain and the EU from 1 January 2021, including: making sure they have a UK Economic Operator Registration and Identification (EORI) number deciding how they will make customs declarations checking if their imported goods are eligible...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a range of coronavirus-related guidance and information, which your business may find useful. It includes: Social distancing in the workplace – social distancing means keeping people apart to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 Drivers' welfare – duty holders sites where loading or unloading happens must take reasonable steps to protect the health and safety of drivers delivering and collecting Cleaning your workplace – how to clean...
The NHS COVID-19 app will launch on Thursday 24 September in Wales and England including QR check-in at venues. Businesses are being urged to download NHS QR codes. QR codes will be an important way for individuals to record their movements helping the NHS Test, Trace, Protect system. You should create and display a QR code if you are: a business, place of worship or community organisation with a physical location that is open to...

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