Small business confidence rebounds as shops re-open across Sussex
Close to two thirds (58%) of small businesses expect their performance to improve this quarter, and fewer than one in three (31%) expect theirs will worsen, according to the latest Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) study of almost 1,700 UK…
SEISS Round 4
If you are self-employed, HMRC should be contacting you about round 4 of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). This covers the period from 1 February to 30 April 2021. Claims will be possible from late April up until 1…
Support for women in business as Her Biz contract is confirmed for another year
It has been confirmed that business support organisation, Let’s Do Business Group will deliver Her Biz for another year. NatWest has agreed to continue supporting the programme following its success across East Sussex and Kent. The free women’s start-up programme…
Filing your tax return early
We have now reached the start of a new tax year, one unlike any other. Whilst taxpayers have until 31st January 2022 to file their 2020/21 tax return, there may be advantages to filing it ; Getting a refund back…
Broadband provider Lightning Fibre confirms Hastings rollout
Having announced a multi-million pound funding partnership with leading infrastructure and private equity investment manager, Foresight Group LLP, Lightning Fibre has confirmed full fibre installation across Hastings has started, eventually reaching over 45,000 homes and businesses. Lightning Fibre was founded…
Employment and Support Allowance (income related) and earnings
By Judy Scott One in four people in Hastings are relying on benefits. Many are in receipt of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of health problems. If you get Employment and Support Allowance (income related,) you are allowed to…
Hastings Tilts towards the Positive
By Nick Pelling One might think that anyone who set up new business in Hastings in the last 18 months, given the serial lockdowns, might now be feeling the truth of a dubious witticism, ‘buy in Hastings, repent at leisure.’…
Universal Credit and earnings
By Judy Scott One in four people in Hastings of working age are currently relying on benefits. Most are in receipt of Universal ; Earning is allowed. All claimants need to do is fill in the Universal Credit journal at…
Change to Tax Return “Deadline”
By the time you are reading this, the 31st January 2021 deadline for filing 2019/20 personal tax returns will have passed. In any normal year, this would mean that anyone that has not already filed their tax return would be…
Indys Are OPEN!
Food businesses are adapting quickly to drastically different circumstances and needs. Many now sell a wider range of goods and are doing deliveries – for the first time or on a much greater scale – and others have created click-and-collect…