Well, that went quickly!

My business is a year old this week.  When I walked away from a well-paid and (reasonably) secure job last year to set up on my own, I could never have imagined what a first year I would have and just what I lot a would learn – and continue to learn.I think that’s the...

A New Rural?

I’ve been spending a lot of time away from my home in Cornwall in the last month or so, up in the very lovely Cheshire and in the South West of France.  Whilst these areas are different in so many ways, they do have one thing in common, they’re all ‘rural’.  It got me...

Money Talks

At the end of this month, the third of the British Business Bank’s ‘Investment Funds’ is launched in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. This follows the launch of similar (but somewhat larger) Funds in the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine areas, and adds to the...

The Brexit Vacuum?

This week there was a flurry of interest from the media over a suggested ‘leak’ from DEXU (Department for Exiting the European Union to give it its full name) on their contingency planning for no-deal Brexit scenarios.  These scenarios ranged from mild to...