Known as we are for giving our customers centre stage during our fireside chats at the office in Shoreditch, we thought: why not stick to the winning formula when up north? So, at one of our ‘late payment’ events in partnership with Barclays, we asked Tom Sutcliffe, Partnerships Manager at MarketFinance, to lead the conversation […]
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On the rural outskirts of Leeds, a small team of new hand knitting aficionados have a master plan: to make Yorkshire world famous for wool production once more. Starting out as a tiny wool shop selling other people’s yarns and later becoming a knitting brand stocked by over 250 retailers across the globe, baa ram […]
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You’ve gone remote to protect the health of your team (and society). Yet the flipside of social distancing is isolation and disconnect, which affects mental health. Zoom, Slack, email and remote servers make working from home possible but there are other things to consider in order to make it successful. Work performance is linked to […]
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As a business, we started gearing up for remote working long before we knew it would become a live possibility. Why? Because we wanted to make sure we’d be ready when the time came. Of course, this was largely about strengthening our infrastructure to prepare for the practicalities of running day-to-day operations from 130+ separate […]
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Rishi Sunak was quick to come to the aid of SMEs impacted by COVID-19, promising to do “whatever it takes to support the economy” in his Budget 2020 earlier this month. One such measure to boost UK business was the introduction of the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) through the British Business Bank. In […]
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The UK reached a turning point in the fight against COVID-19 on Monday night as Boris Johnson announced the latest wave of restrictions. Up until that point, any restrictions had been presented as strongly recommended guidelines. However the Prime Minister made it clear that those included in Monday’s broadcast will be enforced and called on […]
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