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New funding to tackle food waste through innovation. The Eat It Up Grant Fund 2024 is now open and aims to fuel innovations that reduce edible food waste, ensuring food serves its purpose – to be eaten. There are six grants of up to £60,000 each to organisations with ground-breaking ideas to cut down on food waste. You can apply if you're a: Registered charity, including charitable incorporated organisations and not-for-profit companies Social enterprise Community...

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11 June 2024

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11 June 2024

Introduction to procurement law changes and how they affect social businesses. Does your social business offer services to the public sector, or would you like to investigate a new income stream? There are some upcoming changes in procurement law opening up opportunities for social businesses in the free online session which takes place on 26 June 2024. Meet other social businesses across Wales and in your region, share ideas and get important business updates. A...

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10 June 2024

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10 June 2024

Julie James, Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Local Government and Planning. The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act was granted Royal Assent on 24 May 2024. The Act brings substantial improvements to the law and significant new rights for homeowners in Wales. These include: Increasing the standard lease extension term for houses and flats to 990-years (up from 90 years for flats, and 50 years for houses), with ground rent reduced to a peppercorn (zero financial value)...

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10 June 2024

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10 June 2024

A Powys-based manufacturing company with a customer base that includes Olympic gold medallists, formula one drivers and celebrity cyclists, is celebrating reaching £2 million sales, a significant milestone for the company since receiving export support from Business Wales. Elliot Tanner launched Stashed Products in 2021, after spotting a gap in the market for his bike storage solutions system. But what started as a lockdown side project, now sees product manufactured in the small village of...

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10 June 2024

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24 November 2025

A stone fabricator from North Wales is exploring an impressive development plan that will double monthly turnover and improve the business’ carbon footprint, thanks to support from Business Wales. Cerrig Granite and Slate Ltd was founded in 2000 by Glyn Williams, a fourth-generation stone worker, and son Ian. Over two decades later, brother-in-law Hugo Were joined Ian, the company’s shareholder, production and sales director, to lead the business that has become one of the UK’s...

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7 June 2024

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24 November 2025

New data shows casualties have reduced on roads since the introduction of the new 20mph speed limits in September last year. The data, which provides the total number of casualties in police recorded collisions, shows that in the last quarter of 2023 (October – December) road casualties on 20mph and 30mph roads reduced by 218, from 681 in 2022 to 463 in 2023. The total number of casualties on 20mph and 30mph roads in Q4...

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7 June 2024

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7 June 2024

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Quality Assurance and Approved schemes are official, credible and recognised by customers as an indication of quality and level of services they can expect to receive. Being quality assured by Visit Wales gets your business benchmarked against other Welsh and UK businesses to help you develop that competitive edge. Visit Wales Welcome Awards recognise businesses who have provided added facilities, services and information to meet important specific tourism clientele requirements. This is a great opportunity...

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7 June 2024

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10 June 2024

Taking place from 10 to 16 June, Bike Week 2024 promises to be even bigger and better than 2023 when more than 220 businesses and organisations across the UK took part. Organisations have a huge role to play in decarbonising the economy and ensuring net zero targets are met. And, while transport remains the largest single source of emissions in the UK, an important part of this comes down to looking at how we get...

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7 June 2024

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7 June 2024

A call for evidence to explore reforming the fit note process to support those with long term health conditions to access timely work and health support. This call for evidence will inform a programme of work announced by the UK Government at the autumn statement in 2023, to explore reforming the fit note process to support those with long term health conditions to access timely work and health support. The call for evidence is to...

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6 June 2024

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6 June 2024

World Food Safety Day takes place on 7 June 2024 (WFSD) and will draw attention and inspire action to help prevent, detect and manage foodborne risks, contributing to food security, human health, economic prosperity, agricultural production, market access, tourism and sustainable development. Food safety incidents are situations where there is a potential or confirmed health risk associated with food consumption. A food incident can happen, for example, due to accidents, inadequate controls, food fraud or...

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6 June 2024

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6 June 2024

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