Gloucestershire & West of England Real Life Entrepreneur Roadshow
With Mike Southon ‘The Beermat Entrepreneur'

Gloucestershire & West of England Region invite you to two exciting and entertaining events with serial entrepreneur, best-selling business author and weekly Financial Times columnist

Mike Southon.

Both Events will be held on Wednesday 29th February 2012

and are Free to members and non-members

places are limited so book early

Apprenticeship Challenge

Growing Gloucestershire's Apprentices!

There are a number of ways to take on an apprentice and this can be complicated and time consuming. View Full Details on how to help make this process as clear and simple as possible

Make your Voice count!

The FSB and Research by Design have recruited over 4,000 businesses to the ‘Voice of Small Business' Survey Panel. This panel of members answers regular questions on different policy issues giving the FSB the information it needs to make sure members' views are heard by policy makers. Together we can ensure the interests of small firms are at the top of the political agenda. 

Further Information        Join the Panel

Government Funded Business Support:

A Guide for Business View full Details

The Solutions for Business Portfolio provides a range of publicly funded products and services designed to help business to overcome key challenges and the assistance they need to improve.

Further One-Year Increase in Small Business Rate Relief

The current temporary increase in Small Business Rate Relief, which started on 1 October 2010 and was due to end on 30 September 2011, will now continue for a further year (1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012).

The measure doubles the usual rate of relief so that ratepayers with rateable values below £6,000 pay no rates at all for the period, while ratepayers with rateable values between £6,000 and not more than £12,000 receive tapered relief from 100%-0%.

There are no other changes to the scheme and the Government has confirmed that it will meet the costs of the increased levels of relief.

You need to take no action. Once the legislation is in place, you will be sent a revised bill. In the meantime, you must continue to pay your current instalments, if you have any. Current collection and enforcement procedures will continue to apply to ratepayers who miss scheduled instalments.

Contact your local Council Business Rates team with any questions.

Business Rates - Getting Professional Advice
Business Rates - Questions & Answers
Business Rates - FSB SW Policy News & Advice

FSB MEMBERS

Are your directors and partners covered by FSB membership? View to find out more

HSE introduces new arrangements for reporting of injuries and incidents

From 12 September 2011, statutory reporting to HSE of work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR (the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995) will move to a predominantly online system. View Full Details

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the FSB cannot accept liability for any errors.