Meet the entrepreneurs that built their businesses to help loved ones with health conditions

Some of the best businesses find success through filling a gap in the market and offering something that nobody else does – or at least not successfully. Often, the founders of are inspired by their own experience of needing a product or service and finding out it did not exist. This gives them a strong, … Read more

The businesses and campaigns helping hospitality sector through Covid and how you can do your bit 

New research has found 90 per cent of independent restaurants face the risk of permanent closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The hospitality sector has been battered since the first national lockdown was implemented across the UK in March 2020, and it remains closed today. Many have taken to introducing delivery and takeaway services or … Read more

Lost Years Rum, NICE and Washed Up Cards: Small businesses helping the planet

Sustainable shopping has been on the rise and some businesses are changing the way they work to help the environment and appease increasingly self-aware customers.  This has ranged from reducing or completely cutting plastic usage, to donating profits to ethical organisations or charities. Meanwhile, more and more companies have or are attempting to achieve B … Read more

What does it take to be a heir hunter: We speak to Danny Curran

We’ve all read or heard stories about long lost relatives leaving huge secret inheritances, whether it is popular fiction or in real life – and sometimes, it requires detective work. One man, turned heir hunter, has carved out an international business by putting people together with forgotten fortunes that they inherited through the death of a … Read more

What is Clubhouse? 12 ways you could make money from the new app

The hottest new app of 2021 appears to be social networking app Clubhouse which has seen an influx of interest in recent weeks. It could become a money spinner for amateur social media enthusiasts and entrepreneurs who are good orators and develop a respectable following.  We have spoken to some people who claim to have made … Read more

Meet the entrepreneur making socially distanced drinking a walk in the park

When the nation was free to see their friends and family again, albeit briefly, last summer, one of the key rules for keeping the coronavirus at bay was to practise social distancing. This meant seeing smaller groups or ‘bubbles’ only while indoors, so many took to reuniting with loved ones in the great outdoors – … Read more

Small firms are reeling from lockdowns, but tax blow is looming

Months of lockdown, restricted trading and money spent on anti-Covid-19 measures mean that thousands of small business owners are at breaking point. But for many, next Sunday’s tax payment deadline could be the final straw.  While revenues have collapsed as a result of ten months of zero or little money coming in, costs such as … Read more

Good Club: Could this eco-friendly supermarket help cut waste?

Buying food from a supermarket, either in-store or online, often results in households dealing with a huge mountain of waste – including packaging that cannot be recycled.  Now, an online sustainable grocer – Good Club – is hoping to help our fight with plastic and cardboard packaging through the launch of its zero-waste delivery service. … Read more

Firms falling through cracks in Chancellor’s aid packages

Hundreds of thousands of small businesses which fall through the gaps in Government support are on the brink of collapse because of the pandemic and are in desperate need of financial help – which isn’t coming.  Many have seen their incomes disappear as a result of lockdown restrictions leading to cancelled bookings and vanished sales. … Read more