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UK start-up index reveals the regions thriving since Brexit

The West Midlands has defied Brexit uncertainty with the highest number of new businesses since the EU referendum, according to new figures by UK credit check specialist Creditsafe. The company’s UK Start-up Index revealed which regions have suffe...

4th September 2019 · 3 min read

More Than 8 Million Brits Throw Repairable Clothes In The Bin

To mark the day when humanity has officially used up ‘nature’s resource budget’ for the entire year, (Earth Overshoot Day), new research by sustainable fashion brand, Thought, investigates why we don’t fix things anymore.

14th August 2019 · 3 min read

New study shows Google ignoring women in business

If you search for images of women in business on Google you would have to clarify the female gender. If you search for ‘entrepreneur’ or ‘successful business person’ almost all of the images are of men. There is a problem.

13th August 2019 · 4 min read

New findings from City Hall strongly connects violence to poverty

The launch of the Mayor of London's study gave us an illuminating view into the links between poverty and violence, with a specific view on the geography of the issue in relation to a potential solution. The link between the loss of life and ...

9th August 2019 · 3 min read

Phone fear affects over half of UK office workers

The results of a survey of UK office workers suggests that we are becoming increasingly anxious about answering the phone at work.

5th August 2019 · 2 min read

Broken Britain? 75% of us don’t fix repairable household appliances

- Online spare parts retailer reveals 75% of Brits don’t fix repairable appliances - eSpares launches #FixFirst campaign to change consumer behaviour - Increasing repair rates by 10% could prevent 100,000 tonnes of waste

2nd August 2019 · 2 min read

Crowdfunder.co.uk partners with Superhero Tri Powered by Marvel

Superhero Tri Powered by Marvel’, created by ex-Paralympian Sophia Warner, is a unique disability sporting event and the UK’s only mass-participation sports series dedicated to the nation’s 13.3m people with disabilities - the mission is simple

1st August 2019 · 6 min read

Rising levels of impatience leave British retailers at a tipping point: half of Gen Zs

• Over 41% of those under the age of 40 prefer to shop online, rather than in-store • British consumers want access to payment methods that aren’t yet available, such as fingerprint scan (26%), retina scan (16%) and embedded microchips (9%) • Twi...

31st July 2019 · 4 min read

UK employees set to quit jobs under poor leadership

More than third of UK employees want to leave their company immediately because their boss lacks vital leadership qualities in their workplace

30th July 2019 · 3 min read

Imagen to manage over 17,000 films for one of Germany’s leading film distributors

Imagen, the leading SaaS video management platform business, has been selected by PROGRESS, one of the oldest and largest film distributors in Germany, to manage and distribute its vast content library of over 17,000 films to global media companies.

29th July 2019 · 2 min read

Helpful free tools for freelancers and small businesses getting started

When you finally decide that the moment has come for you to start your own business or branch out as a freelancer, there is a lot to do and a lot to think about. Suddenly your time has become your biggest asset, so it is worth finding the tools t...

26th July 2019 · 5 min read

A third of workers turn down freelance work due to fears of inconsistent payments

It was recently reported, in a study by the University of Hertfordshire and TUC, that the size of the gig economy has doubled in size over the past three years and now accounts for 4.7 million workers with one in 10 working-age adults now work on ...

24th July 2019 · 3 min read