As compulsory liquidations rise 25% year on year, Purbeck is calling on the Chancellor to back the SME directors who guarantee their own business loans

Purbeck Insurance Services has raised £9,139.38 for #ANDYSMANCLUB, linking each personal guarantee insurance policy sold or renewed to a £5 donation

While well executed in parts, Companies House’s identity verification roll-out has exposed a problem: blanket rules are overcomplicating compliance for solo-founders and micro-businesses

Millions of the small businesses Britain relies on every day are operating with less visibility, support and recognition than they deserve. Kate Hayward, UK Managing Director of Xero, argues that changing that starts with a conversation

Charlie Mullins OBE, founder of Pimlico Plumbers, argues that decades of prioritising university over apprenticeships have left businesses short of skilled people and young people short of practical opportunity – and that the solution is straightforward if ministers are willing to act on it

Exceptional people build great businesses. Turning their expertise into lasting capability builds real value

Rupert Lee-Browne, CEO of Caxton, argues that the Commercial Payments Bill’s 60-day payment rule is welcome news for SMEs – but only if they use the breathing space to overhaul their own payment processes first

Better to look at the whole picture and see everyone as customers

Aim is to close small business AI gap across UK and Ireland

Sometimes the biggest barrier to starting a business is not a lack of ideas or ambition, but finding the time, confidence and resources to take the first step

AI has opened the door to entrepreneurship, but now we need to help small businesses take it to the next level

How do we know that business is genuinely a force for good? We must gather the evidence