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Monthly Archives: November 2011

HSBC Business Growth Grant

30-Nov-11

HSBC has launched a brand new Business Growth Grant competition. If your business has a turnover of between £100,000 and £2m and you are looking to grow and expand then this could be for you. You need to demonstrate how the grant will help you boost your business, either here in the UK or overseas. [...]

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Chancellor’s Autumn Statement

29-Nov-11

With all the recent gloomy predictions for the UK’s economy, George Osborne today outlined a range of new measures intended to drive growth and support small and medium-sized businesses. Key points included in the Chancellor’s Statement were: A new National Loan Guarantee Scheme worth £20 billion will see the Government underwriting loans to small enterprises, [...]

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National Minimum Wage

02-Nov-11

From 1 October 2011 the national minimum wage rates increased as follows:   Aged 21 and above  £6.08 per hour Aged 18 to 20 (inc) £4.98 per hour Training Rate:   Aged 16 and 17 £3.68 per hour Apprenticeship Rate £2.60 per hour For more information click here. Technorati Tags: National Minimum Wage

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