info@sccci.co.uk   01270 504 700   Help
Sign Up SCCCI Portal helps you connect with your local business community.
Search Blogs...
OCJ Marketing
Why Do You Use Social Media?
by
Sometimes, brands find social media overwhelming. They sign up to every platform and fail. So, they become disinterested and lose all motivation. You have to understand your motivation for using soc...
Read more »
Tags: social media, marketing, ocj marketing
Eze-Talk
Eze Talk customers to get caller display for free (and ...
by
The regulatory authority for communications, Ofcom, recently announced that from 1st October, all telecoms companies would have to provide the caller display facility for free to their customers. Many...
Read more »
Tags: Eze Talk, caller display, ofcom, local business
Libre Solutions Ltd
MP warns against buying cheap food for risk of slavery
by
Have you ever wondered why some food outlets can drastically undercut the cost of food compared to others? Labour MP, Kerry McCarthy explains why we should be concerned and open our eyes to one reason...
Read more »
Tags: #SLAVERY #Food #parliament #labour exploitation
Richard Weilding
Quickstep, Sidestep, Instep but not Overstep
by
As the country sits on the brink of its greatest economic and social change in recent history, it is comforting to know that the press are fully focused on the real issues of the day by headlining som...
Read more »
Hibberts LLP
Workplace wellbeing and your business
by
Today (10th October 2018) is World Mental Health day. October also plays host to National Work Life Week and so this month employers are being encouraged to focus on well-being in the workplace and wo...
Read more »
Tags: Employment Law, Work Place WellBeing
Libre Solutions Ltd
Unlicensed Gangmaster Arrested
by
Gangmaster arrest in Newport 9th October 2018 A 36-year-old Latvian man has been arrested on suspicion of labour exploitation offences after an investigation by the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Auth...
Read more »
Afford Bond Chartered Accountants
85% of SME's achieving funding boost
by
The overwhelming majority of small businesses in the UK that applied for finance in the first six months of 2018 were successful - with Cheshire-based accountants, Afford Bond, helping several clients...
Read more »
Tags: Cheshire accountants, SME accountants, Paul Edwards, funding for business, Nantwich accountants
Libre Solutions Ltd
Chris Blythe OBE is the CEO of the Chartered Institute ...
by
Four years on from the CIOB Members Forum in Qatar, the Institute turned its focus onto the UK, curious to see what the industry was doing in light of the Modern Slavery Act. Construction and the Mode...
Read more »
Libre Solutions Ltd
Modern slavery: Why we’re looking at corporate risk the...
by
Please have a look at the attached article by Emma Crates and see how many of the writers points you agree with. I believe it articulates perfectly the reason why the Modern Slavery Act is failing to ...
Read more »
Hibberts LLP
Home workers, lone workers and remote workers - what em...
by
As a new study reveals 54 per cent of commuters use their train wi-fi to carry out work tasks from calls to emails, the debate around employment issues such as working hours and flexible working conti...
Read more »
Tags: Employment Law, Flexible Working, Home Working
OCJ Marketing
Facebook Competitions
by
A lot of small businesses think running a competition on Facebook is their answer to increasing their organic reach. However, there’s some things to know about before embarking on them often…   Comp...
Read more »
Tags: social media, facebook, facebook competitions
Eze-Talk
What are the 10 Hidden Costs of an On-Premise Phone Sys...
by
Many on-premise phone system (PBX) manufacturers claim that the 5 year costs of their systems are lower than an equivalent Cloud PBX alternative. What the premises guys don’t tell you is all the littl...
Read more »
Tags: Business telecoms, local business, hosted telephony, Crewe business, on premise phone systems (PBX)
Hibberts LLP
Hibberts make a splash at Overwater RNLI Festival & Raf...
by
It was a case of sink and swim recently for Hibberts Solicitors when we entered two teams into the Overwater RNLI Festival & Raft Race at Audlem. While one of our raft teams consisting of firm partne...
Read more »
Tags: Hibberts Solicitors, Charity
Richard Weilding
Borders, Hoarders, Afforders and Disorders
by
I find it rather odd that what now appears to be a major issue in the government’s ongoing Brexit negotiations was not considered by the vast majority of those people who voted originally in June 2016...
Read more »
Afford Bond Chartered Accountants
Equestrian and livery businesses can save on IHT
by
Did you know that Business Property Relief (BPR) is one of the most highly prized agricultural inheritance tax reliefs available? Yet numerous landowners are not taking advantage of it because they a...
Read more »
Tags: agricultural accountant, Lindsay Beeston, IHT, BPR and APR, Nantwich accountants