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The Business & IP Centre, otherwise known as BIPC North East, is an organisation which helps SMEs and those who are self-employed improve and grow their business. As well as offering guidance and support on intellectual property, marketing...

According to Forbes, 14% of us work from home, with 26% of us working hybrid (sometimes travelling into a place of work, and sometimes working from home). Despite us being 4 years on from the first lockdown, when 46.6% of us...

Durham Business Growth Grants

The Durham Business Growth Programme is offering a range of grant opportunities to businesses of all sizes that are based in County Durham. These include revenue grants and capital grants between £10k and...

We might be approaching the end of summer, but that doesn’t mean we can’t go out with a bang. If you’ve ran out of activities to keep your little ones busy, or you’re looking for something fun to take them along to after...

According to PayPoint, cases of unauthorised cheque fraud have risen by 24% in the last year, costing victims in the UK £5.6 million. This scam targets people selling something either online or offline, and can be devastating for those left...

Freemium, an amalgamation of free and premium, is a popular kind of business model where an organisation offers a basic version of their app or service for free, and a premium version that people can subscribe to in order to access extra...

In the first of our series about Labour’s proposed workers' rights, we’ve found out about their positions on zero hours contracts, and the status of ‘Worker’, and how these could affect your business if they were...

Creative Enterprise Business Builder

The Creative Enterprise Business Builder from Creative UK is a grant of up to £2,500 for businesses and companies who work in 'moving image for storytelling, spanning film, television, games,...

Spoon theory was developed by activist and writer Christine Miserandino, to describe the experience of living with chronic illness and disability. 

Since its inception, it has been used by a number of disability activists, healthcare...

Pop ups have been around since the dawn of the internet, when you couldn’t even visit a website without your screen being crowded with ads. Now, they’re claiming that your device or your machine has a virus in the hopes that...