Fundraising platform Work for Good are launching the Small Business Star match funding campaign to help small businesses raise even more funds for charities this Christmas. The #SmallBusinessStar campaign will be doubling donations between 1 and 31 December 2020, up to the value of £500 per business. Small businesses will need to sign up to Work for Good and pledge a proportion of sales from their products or services to a charity of their choice...
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How you import from and export to the following countries will change from 1 January 2021. Click on the links below for further details: Andean Countries Morocco Pacific States Eastern and South African states (ESA) Chile Palestinian Authority Jordan Georgia South African Customs Union Member States and Mozambique (SACUM) Central America Faroe Islands Kosovo Switzerland Lebanon CARIFORUM States Israel Tunisia The provisions of the UK-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement explained in the links below for...
A £1 million tax break to stimulate investment in UK manufacturing is to be extended. Businesses, including manufacturing firms, can continue to claim up to £1 million in same-year tax relief through the Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) for capital investments in plant and machinery assets until 1 January 2022. The extension of the temporary £1 million cap was originally due to revert to £200,000 on 1 January 2021. For further information please visit the GOV.UK...
On 19 November 2020 International Men’s Day (IMD) celebrates worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities. The day highlights positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being. At a local level, the areas, issues and activities people, charities, employers and organisations choose to mark International Men’s Day is entirely up to them. To help with ideas many people looked at what others were doing in 2019. For further...
The UK has left the EU, and the transition period after Brexit comes to an end this year. The Northern Ireland Protocol comes into force from 1 January 2021. For as long as it is in force, Northern Ireland will align with all relevant EU rules relating to the placing on the market of manufactured goods. You must show that your products meet those rules by using ‘conformity markings.’ The UKNI marking is a new...
The call for evidence, which applies to Wales, Scotland and England, is seeking views on challenges to progression in low pay sectors, benefits of progression to employers and localities, and examples of good practice across the country. The call for evidence invites views on the following: specific barriers to progression in the areas of retail, hospitality, construction, business support services, and care work impact of progression pathways and other initiatives on businesses benefits of identifying...
The Welsh Government has announced an extra £15.7 million to nearly double the contact-tracing workforce in Wales for the winter. To read the full statement please visit the GOV.Wales website. COVID-19 statutory sick pay enhancement scheme Welsh Government have updated guidance for the COVID-19 statutory sick pay enhancement scheme which will provide support for care workers who are required to stay off work due to actual or suspected COVID-19 or because they have to self-isolate...
The new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) guidance is now available. You can now apply for CJRS online for periods from 1 November 2020 and you will need to submit any claims for November by 14 December 2020. You and your employees do not need to have benefited from the scheme before to claim for periods from 1 November 2020 and there are now monthly deadlines for claims. Claims for periods starting on/after 1 November...
The UK’s sanctions framework is changing, existing EU sanctions regimes are being transitioned into UK law through regulations made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018. EU sanctions will no longer apply in the UK from 11pm on 31 December 2020. The UK Government is hosting a series of webinars to help you understand how the new legislation and processes might affect your work, and what you will need to do to ensure compliance...
The Rushlight Awards 2020-21 are now open to entries and are designed specifically to support and promote all the latest clean technologies, innovations, initiatives and deployment projects for businesses and other organisations throughout UK, Ireland and internationally. The Rushlight Awards are open to all types of organisation at any stage of corporate development, including individual inventors, early stage companies, charities, universities, SMEs, quoted companies and multi-nationals. Categories include: each of the renewable energy types improvements...