As the only national business support organisation, NFEA is well placed to comment on a wide range of business support topics and issues. In this dedicated blog, we’ll share thoughts from our travels, shout about NFEA activity and feedback on discussions and issues within the sector. And we’d love your thoughts too – you can respond back to any of our posts through the site.
You can also visit our news area here for up to date stories on NFEA activity.
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Monday 29 June 2009 by Hayley Williams
Prime (The Prince's Initiative for Mature Enterprise) has just held a small conference to highlight Over 50s self employment issues - and will be drawing up a manifesto to raise awareness. There are obviously pressures caused by the current economic situation, but there are also deeper, long term forces at ...
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Thursday 25 June 2009 by George Derbyshire
I was asked to respond to the launch of the IFA's Business Barometer last night at the House of Commons. The top two concerns were regulation and cashflow.
The line I took was that regulation consistently came out at the top of concerns amongst small businesses. It was promising when Regulatory Reform ...
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Monday 8 June 2009 by George Derbyshire
I see one of the outcomes of the re-shuffle is a new ministry, the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. This replaces Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform which had a life of two years (and I wonder how much regulatory reform it achieved?) Two years before that we had the ...
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