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The Social Business Wales Awards shines a spotlight on the growth and potential of the social enterprise sector in Wales. With 6 award categories, this year’s Social Business Wales Awards promise to unveil the exceptional stories of social enterprises and entrepreneurs who’ve not just weathered the storm but emerged as beacons of change in the past 12 months. It’s time to applaud those who dared to make a difference, transforming lives and communities. Winners of...
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Read the latest updates from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Data Protection Practitioners' Conference 2024 Book your free place at the ICO’s annual Data Protection Practitioners' Conference (DPPC) which will be held online on Tuesday 8 October 2024. Whether it’s your first time or you’re a DPPC regular, DPPC2024 will have something for you regardless of experience level, sector or specialism. Find out more here: Register | DPPC 2024 (orcula.co.uk) Create your own privacy notice Creating...
Support with Employee Health and Disability
This guidance is for employers and managers. This new service, Support with Employee Health and Disability, will help you support employees and understand any legal requirements. There are links to UK Government and other organisations that can help. The guidance will help you with: managing absences and keeping in touch having conversations with your employee, in and out of work deciding on changes to help them stay or come back to work protecting your business...
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Innovate UK’s Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) helps innovative SMEs to collaborate and explore global markets, accelerating business growth. Each GBIP, focused on a specific market and technology or sector area, involves a cohort of up to 15 ambitious innovative UK businesses looking to grow and scale globally. The programme aims to help businesses explore future opportunities and to better understand what is needed to be successful on the global stage. The GBIP provides detailed...
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Volunteers’ Week is an annual event which sees charities, voluntary groups, social organisations, and volunteers themselves come together to recognise the incredible impact that volunteering has in communities around the UK. This year marks the 40th anniversary of Volunteers’ Week, the week will launch on Monday 3 June 2024 and will run through until Sunday 9 June 2024. Volunteering builds connections, grows skills and gives back to society. And it’s been shown to be good...
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission have released an updated toolkit for employers, offering clear advice and guidance on actions employers can take to prevent pregnancy and maternity discrimination at work. The updated toolkit outlines the specific changes that employers will have to make, in line with the new flexible working laws that came into effect in April 2024. These include: extending protection from redundancy for pregnant women and those on maternity, adoption and shared...
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A Swansea-based seamstress is proof that entrepreneurship can be a route from unemployment, as tailored support from Business Wales results in start-up success less than two years after its founder registered for Universal Credit. Jane Dagwell, who has handmade garments for Princesses Diana, Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice, was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit in 2022, after being made redundant. It was while seeking work through Universal Credit that Jane decided to launch her...
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The Welsh Government has commissioned the Centre for Local Economic Strategies to undertake research to understand small businesses’ experiences of finding business premises. Evidence from this research will inform future government policy, including how to improve support for businesses to source town and city centre properties in Wales. In order for us to undertake this research, we invite you to take part in a short survey to understand your businesses’ experience. This survey should take...
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The effects of the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis have hit marginalised and minoritised communities the hardest, negatively impacting the livelihoods of many. The Funding Futures Programme will harness the power of youth to find solutions for those who have been sidelined by the financial system. The support will give young people the power to make their communities fairer places to live. As an Award Winner on the Funding Futures Programme, you will be able...
Haf Wyn Pritchard
A Rhuthun-based businesswoman has proven that, with the right support and resources, anyone can rise to the opportunity and become a successful entrepreneur. Haf Wyn Pritchard was working full-time as a local primary school teacher when she took on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open a Becws Islyn Bakery branch in her hometown in April 2023. A teacher of almost two decades, Haf suggested opening Becws Islyn Rhuthun to friends and owners of the original Aberdaron...

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