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Upcoming bank holidays in Wales and England. 2023 Date Day of the week Bank holiday 25 December Monday Christmas Day 26 December Tuesday Boxing Day 2024 Date Day of the week Bank holiday 1 January Monday New Year's Day 29 March Friday Good Friday 1 April Monday Easter Monday 6 May Monday Early May bank holiday 27 May Monday Spring bank holiday 26 August Monday Summer bank holiday 25 December Wednesday Christmas Day 26 December...
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18 December 2023
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18 December 2023
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All limited companies, whether they trade or not, must deliver accounts to Companies House each year. This includes dormant companies. It’s the directors’ responsibility to file their company’s accounts, and make sure they’re filed on time. It’s important to understand your role and how late filing could affect your company. Missing your filing deadline could affect your credit score or access to finance. It can affect how others view your company and whether they want...
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18 December 2023
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18 December 2023
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The UK's association with the Horizon programme has been officially sealed following the agreement of a bespoke deal. UK researchers can now bid into Horizon, certain that all successful UK applicants will be covered through the UK’s association (or through the guarantee) for the remainder of the programme. All calls in Work Programme 2024 will be covered by association and the UK guarantee scheme will be extended to cover all calls under Work Programme 2023...
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15 December 2023
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18 December 2023
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Do you lead a charity working in the fields of Community, Environment, Welfare, or Youth? Are you based in Wales or the North or Midlands of England? Do you have at least one paid full-time member of staff in a leadership position and an income of less than £5 million per year? Then you could be eligible for a package of support including an unrestricted grant, worth just over £22,000. This help for charities is...
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15 December 2023
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15 December 2023
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New draft guidance, AI Skills for Business , will support businesses to unleash the enormous potential of AI across their workforce, to upskill their workers with the tools they need for jobs alongside AI, developed in partnership with the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme and The Alan Turing Institute The guidance is intended to help employers boost their employees’ understanding of AI so they can use it safely in their day-to-day role, by setting out the...
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15 December 2023
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15 December 2023
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Fraud poses a major threat to the UK. It’s a crime that the finance industry is committed to tackling, but it’s also one that requires the combined efforts of every sector, both public and private, to overcome. Take Five is a national campaign that offers advice to help everyone protect themselves from financial fraud. This includes email deception and phone-based scams as well as online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations. Businesses are...
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15 December 2023
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15 December 2023
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Some businesses have been contacted with requests to make payments to organisations purporting to be Business Wales. Business Wales do not request payments for any reason. Anyone who is contacted from a person or organisation purporting to be Business Wales and requesting payment should: not respond and report to the National Fraud Reporting Line Action Fraud by phone or online; keep as much of the detail as possible to include in the report particularly any...
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14 December 2023
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14 December 2023
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The Welsh Government want your views on proposals to amend school term dates. So that terms are more equal in length, with more evenly distributed breaks, for maintained schools in Wales. We are consulting on 3 matters: The principle of modifying the school year Options for implementing changes to the school year including being made in the 2025 to 2026 school year Suggested term dates for 2025 to 2026 school year The consultation is open...
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14 December 2023
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14 December 2023
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The Welsh Government has a vision to create one of the most sustainable food and drink supply chains in the world. In a world increasingly attuned to the environmental needs of the planet, it is becoming a prerequisite for food and drink manufacturers to be producing their goods with sustainability at the forefront of their thinking. Consumers now expect their food and drink to be sustainably sourced and delivered, relying on manufacturers to ensure this...
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14 December 2023
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14 December 2023
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Women make up nearly half of the UK working population, and women over 50 represent the fastest growing segment of the workforce, so there are few workplaces where menopause is not being experienced by your workers or someone in their immediate circle. Without proper support, many women and people with menopause symptoms feel forced to reduce their hours, pass up promotions or even quit their jobs because of a lack of support. Women and people...
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14 December 2023
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14 December 2023

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