On Wednesday 11 May 2011, I proudly attended the Young Enterprise Awards evening being held at Greenhous Meadow Stadium, Shrewsbury. From September each year students in Shropshire, aged between 15 and 19, take part in the Young Enterprise Company Programme.  The students join into groups... read more

Quoting http://www.lexology.com……….  “In November 2010, the Institute of Directors (loD) and the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) published “Corporate Governance Guidance and Principles for Unlisted Companies in the UK”.  The UK Guidance is based on... read more

HM Revenue and Customs have such serious concerns over the quality of record keeping by small and medium sized enterprises that they are planning a programme of ‘Business Record Checks’ (“BRCs”) to commence in 2011. They have recently published a consultation document seeking opinion on how... read more

Head of the Company & Commercial Team, Richard Murrall, offers some useful advice below.Websites are an important information and brand building tool.  It’s quite easy to launch a website – you might have the expertise in house to do it, but failing that, you can outsource the work to a... read more

Businesses often give their standard terms and conditions of business (T&C’s) low priority until a dispute arises, by which time it may be too late.  It is not uncommon for a sales department to issue quotations or accept orders using either terms that are out of date, copied from the... read more