Over the past six months, since the launch of Marketing Stockport, many businesses have benefited from membership and subsequent business opportunities. Across the Stockport business community there is a very clear underlying desire to do more business locally and support nearby professionals across … [Read more...]
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TEACHERS FEEL GCSE STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IS WORSE THAN EXPECTED
GCSE teachers feel pupils performed "worse than expected" and a quarter "feel less secure about their current role", according to market research carried out by the Voiced Education Community. Market research carried out via the Voiced Education Community, owned and operated by Stockport … [Read more...]
ACORN BUSINESS PARK’S BRONZE AWARD WINNERS
Two businesses in Acorn Business Park have achieved the Bronze Environmental Business Pledge Award with the help of Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford (MSSTT). Both Fairhurst Estates - a leading firm of commercial charted surveyors, and Print Image Network, one of … [Read more...]
HALLIDAYS ADVISE ON HELPING STUDENTS WITH FEES
As Stockport’s future ‘A’ level entrepreneurs finalise their university places, the question of fees is a hot topic of conversation. Student loans are often an under-graduates first introduction in getting to grips with the real cost of education and living; for some it may be the … [Read more...]
KIDS ALLOWED LAUNCHES NEW NURSERY IN STOCKPORT
Kids Allowed is opening its brand new Childcare Centre in Stockport this week. The opening of the 5th centre follows on from the success of the centres in Knutsford, Cheadle Royal, Didsbury and Macclesfield. In addition to nursery care for babies from 3 months old, the centre offers before … [Read more...]
INNESS DESIGN REBRANDS EMI
Stockport-based Electro Mechanical Installations Limited recently asked Marketing Stockport member and specialist branding agency InnessDesign to look at redeveloping the EMI brand. Established in 1967, EMI are a highly-regarded engineering business supplying specialist products to the chemical, … [Read more...]
CHANGES IN THE EYESIGHT STANDARDS FOR DRIVING
C&C Insurance Brokers, the preferred business partner to The Road Haulage Association (RHA) for provision of insurance to RHA Members, are reminding drivers that new minimum eyesight rules were introduced earlier in 2013. Before you drive or ride a vehicle you must meet the new … [Read more...]
FAMILY AFFAIR FOR NEW CHILDREN’S DAY NURSERY
A new family run children’s day nursery is opening in Cheadle Stockport, promising quality childcare and stimulating learning experiences in a magnificent spacious building. Nursery Rhymes Nursery is due to open in early September, it is located on Stockport Road in Cheadle, in a beautiful … [Read more...]
SAS DANIELS ADVISES LOCAL SURGERY ON MOVE
A local surgery has opened its doors to patients at its new state of the art facility. Springfield Family Surgery, based in Eccles, Manchester, was advised on relocating from its current practice by North West Law Firm SAS Daniels LLP. The surgery, a partnership made up of six GPs, needed to … [Read more...]
MONTHLY TAX TIP FROM CLARKE NICKLIN
New tax charge The annual tax on enveloped dwellings (ATED) came into effect on 1 April 2013. This new tax applies to residential properties in the UK worth over £2 million, which are owned by a non-natural person, such as a company, trust or partnership that includes a … [Read more...]
STOCKPORT RESIDENTS GET TASTE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Families in Offerton received hands-on training in sustainable growing as part of the Sustainable Living Stockport Project, which aims to support the communities involved to become more environmentally sustainable. The project is working with groups in Romiley and Cheadle as well as Dial Park … [Read more...]
LATEST NEWSWIRE FROM HALLIDAYS
Welcome to the monthly newswire update from Hallidays. Keeping you informed of the latest business and tax issues. Parents with higher incomes must register for Self Assessment HMRC are reminding parents with higher incomes who continued to receive Child Benefit after … [Read more...]