The funding reinforces DREST’s status as the premium fashion gaming experience, allowing the company to build on its strong momentum.

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), the world’s leading B2B travel platform, and Shell Aviation today announced that Bank of America is the first financial institution to join their sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) program.

DWRM is a social enterprise that works with universities to offer degree courses to facilitate prisoner rehabilitation and has received £150,000 in investment from the Fund.

The company was created to address what it believes is a decades-long issue within the travel industry, where ‘bloated’ legacy systems prove difficult to integrate.

Laundryheap was founded in London in 2014 by Deyan Dimitrov, Mayur Bommai and Ruxandra Lica. The team bootstrapped the business for the first three years, refining their model and plotting a path to sustainable growth, before raising strategic institutional finance in 2017.

The Start Up Loans scheme delivers finance to small businesses through its partners at a fixed interest rate of 6% and provides mentoring to recipients.

As part of its ongoing commitment to support the communities it serves across the UK and Ireland, leading drinks manufacturer and distributor C&C Group (‘C&C’) has welcomed six new colleagues as part of a dedicated employment pathway with Big Issue Recruit, aiming to impactfully change lives through enterprise.

PETs can be used to share anonymised personal information to detect and prevent financial crimes and related harms such as fraud, money laundering, and cybercrimes.

The total cost of NIC to UK employers was £103bn in 2022/23 according to the  latest HMRC tax receipts data, up from £72bn in 2017/18.

Businesses hoping to ride out the economic downturn by reducing customer service or ditching their environmental and social commitments may find themselves punished by consumers.

Storyteq, the technology arm of Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), has acquired Pixelz.ai to bolster their R&D team and accelerate their generative AI capabilities.

The feel-good PR agency’s policy entitles employees to paid leave for menstruation, menopause and miscarriage, in addition to the firm’s existing sick leave entitlements.

This funding will enable Cimple to undertake a three-month study into the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to help improve outcomes for Small and Medium Enterprises with Government contracting.

The company, founded by entrepreneur Steven Mooney in 2022, has seen a rapid increase in user base. FMP now has 3,460 registered users - of this figure 941 are listed as businesses seeking investment, with the remaining 2,519 listed as investors.

Exergyn invested £500,000 in the new centre, redesigning it for its new purpose, which will indirectly support more jobs in the region, and allow the company to benefit from an established solid supply chain network.

Kognic, announces the appointments of Przemek Sienkiewicz as Chief Revenue Officer, Steven Spieczny as Vice President of Marketing and Peter Sunna as Vice President of Product.

Azets identified Gorilla Accounting as a leading, digital-first accountancy firm, with experience and ambition. Both firms share strong alignment in values and focus on providing quality service.

UK food and drink manufacturers’ costs fell for the first time in more than seven years in May, according to the Lloyds Bank UK Sector Tracker, providing reason for optimism around future UK food price inflation.

Small businesses, social enterprises, charities, local authorities and universities can apply for a grant of £40,000 to support ideas that are ready to test, or concepts that have been tested and are ready to progress further.

Being awarded a CBE is the highest-ranking order of the British Empire Award, excluding a knighthood or damehood.