From the beginning of April this year the majority of VAT registered businesses will have to submit VAT returns in a format that is compliant with a system known as ‘Making Tax Digital’(MTD). It means the details of all transactions, including all sales invoices, purchase invoices and other expenses...
Business leaders from Dorset’s thriving Agritech sector were brought together last week to celebrate its growing contribution to the local and regional economy. The ‘Dorset Agritech – Real Progress’ event was co- organised by Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), Dorset County Council and Kingston Maurward College, a leading specialist...
Vive le Violette
Holders of the UK national collection of Violets, Groves Nurseries in Bridport have been awarded first place in a prestigious international Violet festival held last week in Toulouse in France. The award was given for their beautiful tree Violet ‘Amelia Violet Groves Stork’ named after the granddaughter...
A business networking breakfast, held at the end of January, focusing on 'Making Businesses Greener', pulled in a large number of businesses and created significant interest.
The breakfast, organised by business marketing specialists Marketing West and the Bridport Chamber of Commerce, invited two leading experts to give advice on what...
How to make your business greener is the subject of the next Marketing West business breakfast at the Ivy House Kitchen, Groves Nurseries. The date is Tuesday, 29th January 2019.
The breakfast speakers, Julia Hailes MBE and Connor Bryant, are two UK experts on green issues and will be advising...
Distinct types of credit – a credit card, overdraft, individual loan or store card - each one has a specific instalment date and interest rate. In the long-term, you realize that it is very difficult to follow all of them. The problem arises when you miss a payment, or you...
A school garden project is being given £500 a year for the next three years by Dorset law firm Kitson & Trotman.
The much-needed donation comes after one of the firm’s Partners, Richard King, visited the garden at St Mary’s Primary School, Bridport, as he accompanied judges of this year’s...
The West Dorset business community welcomed a new business lunch group this week with its first meeting held in the Wessex FM's boardroom. The lunch was a joint venture between Marketing West, IT Support 365 and Wessex FM, with each business inviting leading business contacts. There was standing room...
A new round of funding calls via the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has now been launched, with up to £8m available for projects to support growth and jobs in Dorset.
The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aims to improve economic and social cohesion in the European Union by focusing...
Over a hundred local business people attended this year’s South West Economic Forum, sponsored by leading companies Milsted Langdon and Porter Dodson to hear the views of several experts on what the next two years hold for business in the South West.
The breakfast meeting held last Tuesday saw a...
