By Mike Lloyd, managing partner, Haines Watts Swindon. Are you and your business involved in research and development (R&D)? Are you absolutely sure? Many business leaders are unaware there are potentially significant tax savings available if R&D expenditure is identified and appropriate claims made to HM Revenue & Customs. In my experience, businesses are...
Regional accountancy firm Monahans has appointed Karen Cooper as rural manager in its Swindon-based rural and landed estates team. Karen, pictured, has joined from Swindon firm Morley & Co. She previously trained and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2010 while with national firm RSM’s Swindon office. In her new role she will assist in...
A firm’s intellectual property (IP) – its trademarks, branding, designs etc – are vital to its success and must be registered as part of any business plan, Swindon companies will be told. At a free breakfast presentation on March 2, hosted at chartered accountants Banks BHG, the Intellectual Property Office’s Dave Hopkins, pictured, will...
Business West, the region’s largest business organisation, has again called on the Government to do more to tackle youth joblessness and the skills crisis following another fall in unemployment. Figures released earlier this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show unemployment in the South West is now the lowest in the country after...
Swindon Business News is once again backing one of the top business awards schemes recognising excellence and enterprise in the region’s boardrooms. The annual Institute of Directors’ South West Director of the Year Awards showcase outstanding leaders and entrepreneurs and focus UK-wide attention on success in the region. Over recent years the awards have become established...
Be Wiser, the insurance group due to create 350 jobs when it opens an office in Swindon this spring, has been named as one of the country’s leading employers of apprentices. The firm, which has employed more than 250 apprentices, was awarded the Newcomer – Large Employer of the Year accolade at the National...
Funding and finance for small business will be explained at a free event for women in business tomorrow. Speaker Debbie Neale, pictured, senior business manager at Inspire by Wessex Chamber, will give a 30-minute overview and introduction to the various ways of raising cash for a business before opening the meeting to questions. While...
A series of Government measures which curb the benefits of buy-to-let investments will be explored at a free seminar in Swindon later this month. Accountants Banks BHG will host the teatime event on February 24, which looks at the effect of the Chancellor’s new rules on individuals, trusts and partnerships owning more than one...
The search starts today to find the South West’s happiest workplace – and staff working for Swindon’s forward-looking businesses are being encouraged to take part. The contest, launched last year in Bristol and Bath, proved so popular that organisers workplace and interior design consultancy Wylde Interior Architecture have extended it cover the entire region....
The Swindon office of corporate finance specialists Watersheds has arranged the management buy-in of an architectural and structural steel fabricators. Bristol-based Long Engineering, which specialises in bespoke architectural products for the construction industry, has been acquired by a group of businessmen from the city. Business owner Lance Harris bought it in 2004 through a...
