Grants to ordinary businesses are relatively rare in the UK, and vary from place-to-place. Now in an unusual move Liverpool City Council has decided to offer £500 grants to help new firms on its patch get off the ground. The grant will be available to all new businesses starting up [...]

Shell is offering awards of up to £40,000 to as many as 18 small businesses across the UK. The judges are looking for business proposals that are innovative, commercially viable and that will lead to greenhouse-gas reduction. Entries are required by midnight on Friday 10th November 2006. The contest is [...]

Over one million unemployed people aged between 50 and 65 want a job but can’t get one, according to a new report by the TUC. Only one in eight workless people in this age bracket had retired and were classed as “affluent professionals”, while many who are still keen to [...]

When Graham Watkins and his wife sold their company, they had no idea what would be involved. Now Graham, 53, has written a book recounting their experiences and the lessons learned. “It pays to start early”, says Graham. “The process was far more complex than we had imagined. It involved [...]

Age Positive has published a league table of 149 towns, cities and counties in England ranked by how well they are doing at providing jobs for older people. Slough is best, with 73.9 per cent of 50 to 69 year olds in employment, and Hartlepool the worst with only 31.8 [...]