Do you want to find out more about changes to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and how flexible furloughing can support your business? Join HMRC’s live webinar for the latest information, including: overview of changes to the scheme, including how you can now bring previously furloughed employees back to work to suit the needs of your business introduction to flexible furloughing and how it works example of how to work out the wages of flexibly...
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‘NHS Wales each year vaccinate approximately 1 million adults and children from across Wales, including childhood immunisations and Influenza.’ This year due to the COVID-19 pandemic delivery of these vaccinations will become more of a challenge, due to a wider range of more vulnerable groups (shielded), new social distancing measures, infection control and the inclusion of the COVID-19 vaccination. A COVID-19 vaccine in the best case scenario will be delivered rapidly to large numbers of...
A new fund of up to £4 million has been launched by Sport Wales to help grassroots sports clubs and community organisations. The new ‘Be Active Wales Fund’ will provide a major source of support to protect community clubs and organisations that have been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and help them prepare to re-start activities safely. Lockdown posed a serious financial risk to many community clubs in Wales due to loss of income...
On 1 January 2021 the transition period with the European Union will end, and the United Kingdom will operate a full, external border as a sovereign nation. This means that controls will be placed on the movement of goods between Great Britain and the EU. To afford industry extra time to make necessary arrangements, the UK Government has taken the decision to introduce the new border controls in three stages up until 1 July 2021...
Chwarae Teg have a number of webinars to help your business including: Business basics – Wednesday 22 July 2020, 12pm to 1pm – designed to help you take the first steps with your business idea and transform it into something actionable that you could set in motion, register here Supporting menopause at work – Thursday 23 July 2020, 1pm to 2pm – join Hannah Botes, Business Partner at Chwarae Teg, who will share with you...
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) webinar will provide an overview of the cyber security risks facing businesses during and after COVID-19, as well as a look at the range of resources freely available from the NCSC for businesses. The webinar is designed for SMEs which have been impacted by COVID-19 and are interested in developing their business online. The webinar will include material on: the role of NCSC in supporting business and UK industry...
The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) has been updated with a number of changes including the following: SEISS is closed for the first grant, the scheme allows you to claim a second and final taxable grant, you can make a claim for the second grant if you are eligible, even if you did not make a claim for the first grant, find out more here new guidance has been published if you have been overpaid...
The Professional and Business Services Sector and Enterprise Nation, supported by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, have teamed up to offer small and medium sized businesses free advice to help them recover from the impact of Coronavirus. Professional bodies and trade associations are mobilising experts in their sector to offer free calls on topics from accounting to advertising, HR and legal affairs. Enterprise Nation is providing free access to the platform, until...
ASTUTE 2020 (Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies) led by Swansea University in partnership with Cardiff University, Aberystwyth University, University of South Wales and University of Wales Trinity Saint David enables greater levels of business innovation in future manufacturing technologies, driving and supporting cutting-edge research, development and innovation. If you are a manufacturing company, you can access University based industrially focussed research specialists to support your business to grow out of lockdown and build long-term resilience. For...
The Clean Growth Fund (CGF) aims to speed up the deployment of innovative clean technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by making direct investments in companies seeking to commercialise promising technologies. The CGF invests in the following sectors: power buildings transport industry waste The new £40 million fund combines a £20 million investment from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) alongside £20 million from a private sector investor CCLA, a UK institutional...