Rhys Taylor-Brown

The demand for e-bikes has spiked since UK employees have been gradually phased back into normal working life with the easing of lockdown. Advantages are clear in that they enable people to avoid the use of cars and close contact of others on public transport, but looking to ascertain just how safe, affordable, and healthy e-bikes are, 50 Cycles’ Peter Walker conducted his own research into the matter, weighing up the pros and cons and revealing his findings in a blog on the company website.

The fact that the UK government’s plans for the health and care visa under the post-Brexit transition period immigration system will not include concessions for care home staff is likely to leave specialist recruitment agencies such as Adeline Recruits with much work to do.

As the Covid-19 situation has wore on over the course of 2020, many commentators have spoken of the fact that the experience of going through a crisis has created a sense of unity within UK communities. This same sentiment of togetherness has also been seen in businesses up and down the country as they have charted their own course through the pandemic, with support from the government’s economic measures.

The words "Covid-19", "business" and "impact" have been strung together in the same sentence frequently in recent months. When sharing his own experience of the Covid-19 pandemic and how he has seen the crisis affect businesses, Paul Newsham, managing director of RFM Accountants + more, identified three defined stages in how firms respond to said impact.

Throughout the duration of the Covid-19 lockdown thus far, the public has been forced to seek out new ways to keep the mind busy. With the lockdown seeing workplaces, businesses, bars, pubs, leisure facilities and social spaces closed, daily exercise began to take precedence as a means of staying occupied. Some took to jogging through the streets and local parks, some took to their bicycles, while others got creative at home and set up their own home workout spaces.

Following prime minister Boris Johnson’s ‘project speed’ plan to rebuild the UK economy post-Covid-19, businesswoman Margot James, executive chair of WMG at the University of Warwick and former minister for Digital and the Creative Industries has called for a national programme that combines the scale needed to reset, rebuild and recharge the economy.

Boomsatsuma is collaborating with the Iconic Black Britons project by reaching out to locals in the city of Bristol and understanding what they wish to see included in an Augmented Reality tour which will be centred around the city’s iconic Seven Saints of St Pauls’ murals.

As a firm, Rradar’s services include providing legal and business support to all organisations, in the realms of employment, HR, health and safety, litigation, disputes, corporate, commercial, and other business-related law areas. Founded by Gary Gallen as a one-man start-up in 2012, he has grown the firm into an expanding company with over 100 employees, boasting bases in Hull, Leeds and Glasgow, and still looking to expand its presence.

Scarcity of water affects around ten per cent of the world’s population and has a disproportionate impact on inhabitants of developing countries. Even in the year 2020, people are left facing the daunting and demanding task of travelling long distances to collect water for their families, which often is unclean and has the potential to cause life threatening illnesses.

Wide availability of Covid-19 antibody testing was once billed as a key exit route from lockdown. The purpose of the antibody test is to determine whether an individual has previously contracted coronavirus and recovered, meaning that there is a possibility of immunity. Understanding the path that the virus has taken was, therefore, seen as a major part of getting the UK back to work.

Ever since Covid-19 lockdowns began to be called in different nations across the world earlier in the year, there have been real concerns that an increased prevalence in drink and drug related violence could come as a direct result.

The International Business Leaders’ Advisory Council [IBLAC] is preparing for its annual conference due to be held in October in Shanghai, China.

When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and March saw Scotland go into lockdown, golf clubs across the country including at Loch Lomond Golf Club in Argyll and Bute, were forced to close their doors not knowing when they would reopen again.

Samantha Murfitt is one business leader who has been left with plenty to ponder during the Covid-19 pandemic. Sitting down with the Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland’s Scott Challinor, Murfitt discusses her positive approach to managing her businesses through the crisis, while revealing some of the influences which have helped mould her into the businesswoman she is today.

The Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown has seen schools cease their standard term-time activities nationwide, yet behind the scenes, headteachers and senior members of staff have had plenty on their plates to keep themselves occupied, even before the government’s plans to reopen schools in phases was triggered in June. Speaking to the Leaders Council of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, Ian Bennett, head teacher of Downshall Primary School in Ilford, Essex, tells of the challenges that the pandemic has forced on the school community.