Top 226 small business grants & funding programmes in the UK

Top 226 small business grants & funding programmes in the UK

Earlier this month, Entrepreneur Handbook published a list of over 200 private and publicly-funded business grants available to UK businesses, including SMEs. Cash grants range from hundreds to thousands of pounds, the highest generally reaching up to £500,000. Grants...
80% of UK SMEs confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast

80% of UK SMEs confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast

Some light amongst all the gloom according to research from digital bank Starling and the Great British Entrepreneur Awards (GBEA), as a survey reports that 80% of UK SMEs are confident they will recover from Covid despite gloomy economic forecast. The survey of more...
Coronavirus: Millions for small business ‘sitting in council accounts’

Coronavirus: Millions for small business ‘sitting in council accounts’

According to a BBC report on Friday Aug 8th 2020 and the Federation of Small Businesses, there are millions of pounds earmarked for supporting small businesses on March 17th still “sitting in council accounts”. Are you eligible to claim? Lump sums of...
High Court narrows Sky’s trade mark protection and criticises the use of trade marks as a weapon

High Court narrows Sky’s trade mark protection and criticises the use of trade marks as a weapon

A very interesting article last week from the Intellectual Property team at Osborne Clark. On 29 April 2020, the English High Court handed down its eagerly awaited judgement in Sky plc v SkyKick UK Ltd, holding that Sky has succeeded in its claim of infringement by...