Planning a holiday for 2021?
There's nothing quite like a river cruise... Holidays are long overdue and, at Baldwins, we know for sure that our appetite to travel is growing while we wait for life to resume as it once was. As each month goes…
VAT Reverse Charge for Construction
Is your Building or Construction business ready for the VAT domestic reverse charge from 1 March 2021? The legislation has not changed since it was enacted in 2019 except for a useful alteration to the requirements placed on ‘end users’…
Kickstart Community…
You may have heard about the ‘Kickstart’ employment scheme? It’s a recently initiated Government initiative with a purpose; to match organisations with reliable young people (16-24) for a 6-month paid placement funded entirely by the government. At Catch22 they see this…
Roadmap out of lockdown in England
Following the Prime Minister's announcement in the House of Commons on Monday 22 February, the government has published the ‘COVID-19 Response - Spring 2021’, setting out the roadmap out of the current lockdown for England. The design of the roadmap…
Virtual Quiz Night & Auction
Natasha Kaplinsky, patron of the Bevern Trust, will host the Bevern Trust Virtual Quiz Night & Auction live in your own home! All are invited to test your wits and stretch your brain cells. Bring your own drinks and nibbles…
How to find your perfect customers
If I gave you a magic wand and said you could wish for your perfect customer, what would you wish for? At the start of last week, I got back to my desk after a long weekend – which was lovely,…
Sharing the Love this Valentine’s Day!
Valentine’s Day 2020 was the last notable date before the initial Lockdown and yet this year we are going to have to think a little laterally of how to best impress those that we love! It got me thinking that…
Working from home and the impact on the future workplace!
COVID has swept through the globe, changing the way businesses operate - and as the government announced the first round of lockdown measures in March last year, many businesses scrambled to implement new policies that focused on remote working. Moving…
Why Your Business Should Start Blogging (And How to Do It)
Blogging has been around since the 1990s. And, perhaps inevitably, grand claims are periodically made about ‘the death of the blog’. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of their death are premature. Blogs continue to play an important role in…
It’s ‘Time to Talk’ – the power to make a difference
For many people, the third National Lockdown is proving to be the hardest yet. Heightened feelings of uncertainty associated with new strains of the virus, ongoing isolation and continued lack of social interaction and the general monotony of life have…