If you’re a creative fashion designer, start-up or SME with a great sustainable fashion idea or product, Fashion For Change can help you get your business off the ground. Fashion For Change will be selecting 25 projects that meet its eligibility criteria to benefit from financial and business support as part of its Accelerator Programme, led by at least one SME, designer, or startup (SME, micro-company, or self-employed professional) and a transnational partner. The partnership...
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The Welsh Government is making £227 million available over the next three years to support the resilience of Wales’ rural economy and our natural environment, Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths has announced. This allocation of funding responds to the ending of the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP), which will close in 2023. It will ensure continuity of support for important actions previously funded under the RDP. Funding, which will be available to support farmers, foresters...
Wales - ranked third in the world for domestic recycling - has joined forces with other UK nations to introduce new ‘polluter pays’ rules to make businesses which place packaged goods onto the market pay for their waste to be recycled. But Wales, alongside Scotland, is going one step further by committing to ensuring companies responsible for the most commonly-littered items that scourge streets, communities and the countryside, cover the clean-up costs. Under the new...
The Wales HR Awards will celebrate Wales’ best in-house teams, consultants and HR industry experts for their outstanding contribution to HR. They will also celebrate the unsung HR heroes working behind the scenes to support businesses and organisations of all sizes over the past twelve months. This year’s categories include: Inspiring Great Leadership Team of the year public sector Best HR Initiative Best Apprentice of the year Welsh Language Best HR professional HR Director of...
The Welsh Government are seeking your views on proposals for new bus legislation. This white paper sets out proposals for public transport bus services to better plan and grow the bus network. This will ensure it meets public needs, maximise the value we get for our investment in bus services and break our reliance on private cars. The white paper sets out to: require the franchising of bus services across Wales allow local authorities to...
Freshness of thinking is a key component of driving new ideas and innovation. Remember it is vital that we maintain competitive advantage through continuously exploring new ways of doing things. To avoid getting into a personal “rut” regularly view things from different angles. Some thoughts on how to practice "Fresh Thinking": Think about things in your life or career that you believe need to change - are you getting stale? Write down the things you...
The Welsh Women in Business Awards 2022 is open to any woman running a business here in Wales. Size doesn't matter to us! You might be a one-woman band or the female founder of a huge company. Maybe your business is new like ours, or maybe it's been around for half a century - you're all equally amazing! We have 16 categories to reflect the variety of businesses so we can be as fair and...
The Welsh Government has published guidance outlining what you need to know about the introduction of border controls posts (BCPs) at Welsh ports. The guidance also provides an overview of the post EU-exit requirements for border checks on goods moving between the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK). BCPs already exist at UK airports and ports which have been importing from countries outside the EU. This is sometimes referred to as Rest of World...
Celebrating the Fintech Professionals of Wales, the Fintech Awards Wales takes place on 16 September 2022 at Tramshed, Cardiff and entries and nominations are now open. As an emerging tech region, Wales has the fastest growing digital economy outside of London and with solid growth of the financial and professional sector in Wales, the platform is set to support the country’s digital revolution. The FinTech Awards Wales have the following awards in 2022: FinTech Start-up...
More than £13 million will support trade unions deliver skills solutions and learning support to workers over the next three years, Economy Minister Vaughan Gething announced today. The Wales Union Learning Fund (WULF) programme and the Wales TUC trade union education programme support trade unions in Wales to develop the essential skills and employability of the workforce, with a particular emphasis on removing barriers for traditional non-learners. The next stage of the programme will build...