Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Friday, June 20, 2025

After 20 years, people's love affair with CICs seems to waning (or, did anyone else spot that CICs are now becoming rarer in the wild?)

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I've always had a personal interest in the government's flagship legal form for social enterprises, the Community Interest Company (...
Friday, May 30, 2025

I'd like to apologise to all my fellow freelancers

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I recently had an invitation to meet with the Government's Small Business Commissioner , after I was recognised by the new national Fair...
Friday, May 9, 2025

Why I really signed up to the Fair Payment Code

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Earlier this year I became one of the first businesses in the UK ( and the first sole trader ) to be certificated by the new Fair Payment Co...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Winning gold (for getting money out of my business the quickest)

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I've recently been named as one of the first businesses in the UK economy to be recognised under the Government’s flagship Fair Payment ...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Caring and screwed - how the government criminalises and forces unpaid carers into poverty (and traps them there)

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It seems to be a recurring cyclical message from government of all colours - their recognition of the value and importance of those of us wh...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

how the tax system unfairly disadvantages smaller businesses (like mine)

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As a non-VAT registered business (like half of all the other business registered in the UK), I can't reclaim the tax I'm charged by ...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

sharing squeaky bum moments, swearing, and bread - my contributions to European Freelancers Week 2021

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Each year, there are initiatives and campaigns to help highlight the contribution that freelancers (like me) make to our economy and society...
Monday, May 10, 2021

laser discs, pagers, and social accounting

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History is littered with examples of technologies and systems that were of higher standards and quality, but which were supplanted by inferi...
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Wednesday, December 2, 2020

why the lifeline of SEISS may bankrupt us next year...

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At the start of the pandemic, roughly 5 million of us were self-employed. At the start of the pandemic, government made financial support av...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

becoming deaf, dumb, and blind, during the lock-down

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Nearly all of us are currently subject to a national 'lock-down' during an unprecedented pandemic. And all of us are responding i...
Friday, August 3, 2018

what I'm doing to help fix a £14.9bn problem that's killing our economy...

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There's a problem in the wider business community that's affecting everyone (and our livelihoods), and it's getting worse every...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

tap dancing in the House of Commons

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Some of you will know that I'm not big on formalities, nor one to readily 'doff the cap' in restraining myself from speaking ou...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

based on official statistics, my support to enterprise is far better than what the government pays for...

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Business support comes in all sorts of forms, in all sorts of places, and from all sorts of people. But the question that all entrepren...
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

the best national business support policy may be no policy at all...?

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I recently found myself on an 'expert panel' at a forum convened by ISBE (the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship) o...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

maybe social investment isn't that different after all..?

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I was able to make it along to this year's " Working Capital " conference that was recently staged in Sheffield - a day to im...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

who should we believe about how great (or not) being self-employed is?

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I'm now into my 12th year of being a self-employed enterprise consultant-type. It was never part of a grand plan I have for my life, bu...