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Education Business Exchange

The Education Business Exchange (EBE) is a Careers Wales facilitated database, giving employers the opportunity to work with schools to develop exciting curriculum enhancing programmes for pupils and is looking for employers and individuals who are ready and willing to work with schools. 

Data Protection Fee – does your business need to pay?

Every organisation or sole trader who processes personal information needs to pay a data protection fee to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), unless they are exempt.

You may have received a letter from the ICO about paying your data protection fee.

Central Point Recording Centre Grants

£500,000 of new funding has been announced to support digital infrastructure investments by eligible livestock auction markets, collection centres and abattoirs in Wales.

The Ecosurety Exploration Fund

The Ecosurety Exploration Fund will invest £1million in projects that can reduce the environmental impact of packaging, batteries or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) through:

IoD Wales Director of the Year Awards 2020

The Institute of Directors (IoD) awards are a celebration of leadership talent, success and achievement in Wales.

You can nominate yourself or nominate someone you know who represents excellence as a business leader and who you feel deserves recognition.

The UK has left the EU – The transition period

There is now a transition period until the end of 2020 while the UK and EU negotiate additional arrangements.

The current rules on trade, travel, and business for the UK and EU will continue to apply during the transition period.

New rules will take effect on 1 January 2021.

Helping farmers to work more efficiently: apply for funding

The UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Transforming Food Production Challenge has up to £90 million to help businesses invest in new data-driven precision-agriculture technologies that could transform food production.

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