Small businesses will fire questions at former political journalist and former Strictly Come Dancing star John Sergeant, as he chairs a panel of political speakers at the Federation of Small Businesses’ Annual Conference in March.
The conference, from 18–20 March at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, will see an all-party line-up ready to answer questions [...] CONTINUE
Pre-packaged administrations: effective way of saving jobs and businesses? Or corrosive means of disreputable companies and insolvency practitioners to profit at the expense of other business owners?
That is the question businesses from across the country will debate when this controversial issues comes before the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB) annual conference (18–20 March, Aberdeen Exhibition [...] CONTINUE
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has spoken out against claims by celebrity entrepreneur Doug Richard that starting a business in the UK is difficult, saying red tape is only a burden for established firms.
In his Entrepreneurs Manifesto and Declaration of Rights released last week, the former Dragons’ Den investor and founder of the School [...] CONTINUE
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is calling the Government to hold a national conference to review its contingency planning after weeks of snow and icy weather brought the UK to a standstill.
Following weeks of bad weather which is estimated to have cost the UK economy at least £600m a day, with staff in some [...] CONTINUE
As the country goes to the polls next year, unemployment and public debt will still be high. An incoming government – of whatever hue – will be placed in an awkward position; it will be forced to make some tough decisions to steer a steady course through very choppy waters of recession and then into [...] CONTINUE
More than half of businesses have resisted the worst of the recession by innovating, creating new products and services, according to a new survey by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and ICM.
The FSB-ICM ‘Voice of Small Business’ Annual Survey 2009 reveals that 53 per cent of businesses introduced new or improved products and services [...] CONTINUE
National postal strikes could cost small businesses anywhere between £500 and £5,000, a poll by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has shown.
In a survey of over 1,200 small businesses, nearly half (46 per cent) estimate the postal strikes could cost them between £500 and £5,000. In the run up to Christmas, one of the [...] CONTINUE
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) will give the Liberal Democrat Party Conference a taste of life in a small firm this week to highlight the importance of small businesses in tackling unemployment.
Conference delegates will have the chance to win a tin of jelly babies at the FSB’s exhibition stand in the Bournemouth International Centre, [...] CONTINUE
Banks should be pressed to give branch managers greater freedom to lend to small businesses, the Government has been urged.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) warned that the cost of loans was putting firms under real pressure.
FSB chief spokesman Stephen Alambritis called for lenders to return to “relationship banking”, with branch managers having more contact [...] CONTINUE
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has brought out new proposals to get more apprentices into work and to give them a pay rise, ahead of a Government meeting on employing young people tomorrow.
The FSB’s proposal for getting young people into apprenticeships calls for higher wages for apprentices; a scheme to link up apprentices with [...] CONTINUE
