Experts blog

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Phil Saunders, SmartGO Project Manager at GO Travel Solutions provides his top 5 tips on encouraging your staff to travel to work by bike.

SMEs are integral to us achieving our global sustainable development goals.

Resolving disputes in the workplace

Growth for problem-solving PR agency

Hedkayse – Innovation puts Leicestershire business in pole position for cycle safety market

Leicester Coffee House is ethical, sustainable and innovative.

Getting the right webhosting for your needs

Creating a rejuvenated, sustainable garment sector takes everyone’s help.

Barry Aldridge shares his neurodivergent story.

Stuart Fraser of the Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre

Mark Esho MBE is passionate about supporting disabled people to start their own business.

The UK has over 5m family businesses producing 1/3 of GDP.  What are the challenges?

Sue Jerham of National Forest E-Bike Holidays explains how.

Post-Covid, attitudes to work have changed.  For the SME manager with HR responsibility there is a lot to think about.

Chris Owen discusses the issues facing Leicestershire’s Advanced Manufacturing sector – some of these have been created by Brexit and Covid but others are more long-standing and linked to the way these companies are founded and grown over the years.  Chris shares some practical advice on how these issues can be addressed to help the businesses ensure their survival and growth.

Ellie Dunmore is Director of Operations at Penny Price Aromatherapy, a company with sustainability at its heart.

Cast Iron Welding Services (CIWS), based in Coalville, has been operating for 75 years and, in the words of Sales Director, Andy Statham, “using what one might describe as a foundry process, we look less of a hi-tech manufacturer and more like a “dark satanic mill” from the Coleridge poem!”, but what they do is officially verified, in accordance with ISO14040, as achieving a reduction in carbon emissions by as much as 89%.

Tunde Sobola is a life-long green entrepreneur.  He started a sustainable cleaning business while still a student and now also runs a zero waste shop in Loughborough.