This is an update to an earlier post on the same topic. Our basic position hasn’t changed: Remember: grants to small businesses are relatively rare in the UK, usually have strings attached and are unlikely to give you 100 per cent of the money. Customers are the real people who can grant prosperity to your - – - read more >

UPDATE: Since more than half of the respondents to a recent mini poll on PRIME’s client-support site www.primebusinessclub.com expect to sell their business this story directly affects many older entrepreneurs. See Can business sale realistically finance people’s retirement? on this site. Controversial new rules on Capital Gains Tax that will affect anyone planning to sell - – - read more >

Controversial new rules on Capital Gains Tax that will affect anyone planning to sell a small business have finally been clarified.  Tax will be levied on asset sales up a value of £1 million at the rate of 10 per cent, rather than the 18 per cent originally mooted. The higher rate will apply to sales above the £1 - – - read more >

PRIME and its sister charity PRIME-Cymru have jointly published a report into improving the employment prospects of the over 50s. “It is worth putting real money behind a drive to re-employ economically inactive over-50s”, says the report’s lead author Christopher Smallwood. “In order to reintroduce them to the workforce, two things are needed: (1) widespread - – - read more >

Three stories of older entrepeneurs are now on the BBC web site. All set up businesses in their fifties and sixties. Myreen Young, an aromatherapist from Southampton, launched her own range of skin-care cosmetics at the age of 54. Two years later it appears to be going strong, with 30 salons across the UK also - – - read more >

“After the contract for the job I was doing ended I suddenly found myself retired at 59. A quick look at my bank balance convinced me I couldn’t stop working completely – and anyway I just didn’t feel old enough.” Liz Friedrich, now 63, whose garden design business is profiled in Women & Home magazine. - – - read more >

A list of the technology used to put to put this web together is given on the Site credits page. We are not using complicated or expensive tools. If you are interested in building your own site it is getting increasingly easy. You can get a free web site to experiment with that uses similar tools - – - read more >

The printed paper version of “Working for YOURSELF – a practical guide to sales, marketing and preparing a business plan for people aged over 50″ is now available. You can still download the guide as a PDF. We can send PRIME business club members a hard copy, just email us your details and we’ll post you - – - read more >