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A sustainability platform has helped parents divert £1 million worth of items away from landfill across the UK. The YoungPlanet app – a platform used by families across the UK to give and receive second-hand parenting and children’s items for free – has enabled over 30,000 children’s items and toys worth over £1m to find new homes, rather than be chucked away.
The cost of physical inactivity, lifestyle related disease and costs accrued through sickness absence, are estimated at £8.2 billion in a year in England alone. Given the knock-on effects this can have on business, employers are increasingly looking for ways to promote the health and wellbeing of their staff.
Entrepreneurs, especially in the early stages of a business, often have to be jacks of all trades. You will likely find yourself being the sales, marketing, and accounting departments all at once, doing the work of several people. However, all of that energy, enthusiasm and potential can easily be squandered if you remain unaware of the areas that require improvement, or you simply cannot handle alone.
Almost half (43%) of property professionals are not improving their anti-money laundering (AML) processes because they either don’t care or don’t think they will get fined. That’s according to a survey from anti-money laundering tech scaleup, First AML, which surveyed 250 real estate professionals across the UK.
Silicon Valley has been the jewel in the crown of the global technology ecosystem for decades, pioneering innovation and creating some of the world’s most successful companies. Yet, in recent years, we’ve seen a small number of tech hubs join Silicon Valley at the top table. With Europe’s largest tech economy – the UK has firmly cemented itself as a leading place to set up and grow an international tech company.
UK bosses are considering asking workers to stay at home to save on office energy bills this winter, according to a new survey of 1,000 senior leaders at UK companies. According to the findings, 64% of senior leaders are considering reversing their rhetoric around encouraging employees back into the office and 74% of business owners feel the same, as the cost of living begins to bite for companies This is according to research from freelance platform Fiverr.
Penzance-based Varfell Farms is one of the UK’s largest agri-business firms, supplying plants, bulbs, blooms and shrubs to retail chains including B&Q, M&S and Waitrose. After working with staff and students from Falmouth University, the company decided to issue an urgent call for expertise to help develop a prototype robot picker – currently code-named ‘Daffy’.
Scrolling through LinkedIn you’d be forgiven for believing a rose-tinted view of startup leadership as a continually exciting, dynamic lifestyle. Whilst that can be the reality, there are also plenty of times when things are anything but – when leaders find themselves feeling isolated and under pressure to keep building the business and making the right decisions.
His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the UAE, and President of DIFC, today announced the launch of the Dubai FinTech Summit, a global event that will bring together more than 5,000 experts, thought leaders, policymakers and decision-makers in Dubai to discuss how they can shape a new wave of innovation, enterprise and growth for the international financial industry.










