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Person having an eye test
Routine sight tests are the best way to make sure your eyes are healthy, and could lead to successful treatment for unknown, sight threatening conditions and maybe even your life. That’s the message from Health Minister Eluned Morgan in a new campaign to encourage adults over 30 to go for a sight test at their local optometry practice (opticians). Some conditions that cause sight loss have no symptoms, but a sight test can often pick...
First published
3 October 2023
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3 October 2023
Vegetable farmer arranging freshly picked produce into a crate on an organic farm
The Challenge is searching for innovative solutions that could increase the sustainable production of locally grown food in the Cardiff Capital Region. The Challenge, which is a partnership between the Cardiff Capital Region Challenge Fund, Cardiff Council, Monmouthshire County Council, Welsh Government, and the SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Centre of Excellence aims to find businesses and other organisations with ideas focussed on one of the following areas: Approaches to encourage and enhance knowledge within...
First published
3 October 2023
Last updated
3 October 2023
management concept, online documentation database and digital file storage system or software, r
An area of prudent investment for the high growth business, is investment in information technology. While we have all heard - and perhaps even experienced - the horrors of major IT implementations gone wrong, it doesn't have to be like that. Keep it simple. All you really need are some basic, fundamental things: standard monthly management information reports - cash flow, profit, debtors customer records - a database email - fast internal and external communications...
First published
2 October 2023
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2 October 2023
Plastic straws
From 30 October 2023 there will be a ban on anyone selling or supplying some single-use plastic products in Wales. What is being banned? Single-use plastic plates – this includes paper plates with a laminated plastic surface Single-use plastic cutlery – for example forks, spoons, knives Single-use plastic drinks stirrers Cups made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene Takeaway food containers made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene Single-use plastic balloon sticks Single-use plastic-stemmed cotton...
First published
2 October 2023
Last updated
4 October 2023
Hands holding craft paper gift box
This year's Gift Aid Awareness Day will be held on Thursday 5 October 2023. The #TickTheBox campaign raises awareness about what Gift Aid is and how vital it is to charities. All charities are invited to share on social media, on your website and in your newsletters, the impact that Gift Aid has on the people and communities you serve. And whatever your charity’s purpose, Gift Aid Awareness Day is another opportunity to show your...
First published
2 October 2023
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2 October 2023
Group of business partners discussing ideas
Dyslexia Awareness Week from 2 to 8 October 2023, celebrates the diversity of the dyslexic community and the rich variety of lived experiences of dyslexia. This year’s theme is 'Uniquely You'. Each person with dyslexia experiences it in ways unique to them. Each will have their own set of strengths and challenges and tread their own path through life. It is estimated that 15% of the population have dyslexia and/or other specific learning differences (SpLD)...
First published
29 September 2023
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29 September 2023
MIT students walking towards the famous dome, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston,
As a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – Industrial Liaison Program (ILP), Welsh Government is able to facilitate an opportunity for a small number of Welsh businesses to attend the following 4/5-day missions. 2023 MIT Digital Technology and Strategy Conference: Harnessing AI to Accelerate Digital Transformation – 25 to 26 October 2023 - Mission date: 23 to 27 October 2023 Digital transformation is revolutionizing the way enterprises develop, produce, promote, and distribute...
First published
29 September 2023
Last updated
29 September 2023
Shops in Aberystwyth
Written Statement: Rebecca Evans MS, Minister for Finance and Local Government Today (27 September 2023), I am publishing the summary of responses to the recent consultation on non-domestic rates improvement relief in Wales. The consultation ran for 12 weeks from 16 May until 8 August 2023. Respondents to the consultation were generally in favour of the proposals to provide improvement relief and provided a range of comments. I am grateful for the detailed and considered...
First published
29 September 2023
Last updated
29 September 2023
male and female colleagues working, concept of employee ownership
Do you have a business succession plan in place? Business owners plan for most things, but often succession is not one of them. With the growth of Employee Ownership (EO) in Wales, this session, on 24 October 2023 at 11am, will give you the information you need to start thinking about EO as your succession option. Aimed at business owners in Wales considering an exit from their company, this online session will give attendees the...
First published
28 September 2023
Last updated
28 September 2023
Online Shopping Website on Laptop.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are calling for businesses to stop using harmful website designs that can trick consumers into giving up more of their personal data than they would like. Practices include overly complicated privacy controls, default settings that give less control over personal information and bundling privacy choices together in ways that push consumers to share more data than they would otherwise wish to do. Where consumers...
First published
28 September 2023
Last updated
28 September 2023

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