26th February 2025
Published in association with SMALL businesses are feeling the pressure as 2025 begins, with FSB’s latest Small Business Index results recording confidence at its lowest level outside of the...
15th January 2025
SMALL businesses across the region have called on the UK’s regulatory bodies to assess how they can support the UK economy’s drive for enhanced growth and investment. The Federation of Small...
2nd January 2025
FOLLOWING the Budget, to which I have shared FSB’s response in Business Times, we are now looking ahead to the government’s forthcoming Industrial Strategy, which we are determined to ensure...
3rd December 2024
MEMBERSHIP organisation NNBN is calling on the public to show their support for local small businesses this year, as Small Business Saturday approaches this weekend. Taking place on...
29th November 2024
………………………………. I HAVE just bought a soup-maker. Yes, we are about to enter the season of baked camembert and toffee pennies… and I am preparing. It seemed like a...
7th November 2024
ASPIRING entrepreneurs and seasoned business professionals are preparing for a day of talks, workshops and networking at the Business & IP Centre’s Start-up Day 2024. The event takes...
31st October 2024
………………………………. THIS BUDGET has been rumoured for some weeks to be quite painful and there was a lot of worry from small business about just how tough it might be. Across...
25th October 2024
Published in association with ........................................ THE SIGNS are here - the shops are full of mince pies, the menu choices for the Christmas ‘do’ are out and that online...
4th October 2024
Published in association with START-UPS and small businesses are often quick to embrace new ideas, driving economic change while competing with larger, established companies. Businesses in...
27th August 2024
.................................................. Published in association with by JENNIFER THOMAS, FSB development manager for Northamptonshire A MAJOR new report published by the Federation...
6th August 2024
THE ECONOMIC strengths and weaknesses of Northamptonshire go under the microscope in a new report. The Northamptonshire Innovation Ecosystem Report, carried out by the University of Northampton and...
8th June 2024
MILLIONS of voters who run their own businesses are still to make a final decision on who they will back on polling day, according to a snap general election survey by the Federation of Small...
28th March 2024
A SWEET company and vintage clothes seller have been recognised as two of the best in the East Midlands at the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards. Beating off stiff competition from hundreds of...
29th February 2024
SMALL FIRMS across Northamptonshire have issued their message loud and clear to Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt as he puts the finishing touches to his Spring Budget statement due on...
22nd December 2023
CANDIDATES in May’s election of Northamptonshire Police & Crime Commissioner have been urged to put business crime at the forefront of their agenda. The call has come from the Federation of...
