Co-Operatives – What Are They, Why Start One And Who Benefits?
ShareCo-operatives are seeing resurgence in interest and offer an alternative to other business models. Essentially a co-operative is owned by all the members. Members are both the employees and employers. Each member has a share in the business. Co-operatives will often work because each member has a greater commitment to making it work than traditional [...]
Got A Sweet Tooth?
ShareIt was reported today that Hotel Chocolat, the upmarket chocolate retailer, has raised £3.7m from an innovative “chocolate bond” to help fund future business growth. This is how it works – customers invest in a 3 year bond in the business and in return they get paid in deliveries of chocolate over the bond term. [...]
Warren Buffett on the economy
ShareWarren Buffet has recommended an out-of-print book written by a little known government adviser on the collapse of Germany into hyperinflation in the 1920s. The book is called When Money Dies. Written by Adam Fergusson in 1975 but now being released by Old Street Publishing. When Money Dies describes the economic collapse in Germany after [...]
Business Mileage VAT Reclaim
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Reclaiming VAT on your business mileage You must have been living in a deep underground cave for the past year if you haven’t noticed the soaring cost of fuel. Cleary this is something that will hurt any of us that are running small businesses and need to run vehicles for [...]
Business – To Buy Or Not To Buy?
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford To Buy Or Not To Buy?.. When starting a new business, many people think of starting from scratch. There could be good reasons for this (for example it could be a completely new idea or product that hasn’t existed before) but more likely the new entrepreneur has not considered any [...]
Top Tips For Small Businesses To Survive The Credit Crunch
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Tips to survive the “credit crunch” One of the key questions I get asked lately when seeing businesses is what to do about the “credit crunch”. Well here I have put down a few tips of how to keep afloat and ride out the storm. Remember that [...]
Private Investment For Your Business
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Private investment – making your business more attractive Much has been written lately about the potential benefits of investment from private investors for small businesses. So I’m not going to go into these but I do want to tell you how you can potentially make your business more [...]
Small Business Protecting Your Income
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Protecting your income One of the biggest areas of weakness that I come across time and time again when visiting small businesses is regarding the contracts they have..or to put it more accurately … they don’t have with their clients and suppliers. We all know how important clients are to businesses. [...]
Business Grants For Recycling Equipment
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Grants for Recycling Equipment From September 2008, businesses operating in the South East of England will be eligible to enter a competition to obtain a grant to help fund the capital cost of recycling equipment enabling them to do more recycling. The next Invest in Recycling grant competition will be announced [...]
Small Business Insurance Requirements
SharePosted by: Paul Stanford Starting a business – insurance Often when I go to see a client that is considering starting a business for the first time I get asked questions about insurance. Usually do I need to have insurance and if so what sort of insurance? It’s also quite surprising sometimes to [...]
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