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An amendment to the Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2011, based on the EU Waste Framework Directive, means that you will be legally obliged to separate recyclable materials from your landfill waste from January 2015.

Have you got your head around Real Time Information (RTI) yet? Many small businesses are saying that they were not able to ready themselves for the deadline for this new tax regime.

Recent research carried out by The Small Business Research Centre and Barclays Business indicates small businesses that export are growing faster than those who simply serve the UK markets.

If you want to grow and develop your business, you must inevitably take some risks. But how can you avoid being foolhardy and only proceed along the paths that are the safest? What will make it easier to calculate the risks?

How much help do you get from your Local Enterprise Partnership? Are you confident that you can get the advice and the services you need from it? Do you and other small businesses in your area have a voice in local business strategy of your LEP?

Digital market research company, Toluna, recently revealed that around 70% of UK participants in a survey check their smart phones as soon as they wake up in the morning. Are you one of them? If so, you are probably starting your working day in bed.

If you have employees, you need to be aware that the next increase in the minimum wage comes into force on October 1st.

The Centre for Entrepreneurs, and the Spend Network, have been analysing the breakdown of spending for the 158 local authorities across the country.

It’s always hard for an entrepreneur to decide to take time off, and many small business owners forgo holidays altogether. That, however, is decidedly not good for you and not really good for the business either.

Although we are well into economic recovery, small businesses are still finding it hard to access the revenue they need to develop. Sometimes they need funds just to get them over a slump and survive, and this seems to be even more difficult.