Of those that reported they currently run a single side hustle, more than two fifths (42%) of them are considering starting a second side hustle.

However, while L&D professionals are getting on the front foot with AI, only 37% of respondents say their organisation has arranged AI training in the past year.

The payments industry has long been seen as the backbone of financial services. New technologies and regulations have recently revolutionised payments to better serve everyone who pays and gets paid. Contributing to a £125bn global industry, the UK payments industry is also a tremendous British success story.

Martin brings over 25 years of international experience in the private capital market and a mission-aligned passion for sustainability to Naked Energy’s leadership.

With a nationwide workforce of more than 400, Clinical Partners supports approximately 40,000 patients annually. The company is growing rapidly, and this acquisition underlines its commitment to enhancing its capacity to serve as many people as possible.

IQ Capital differentiates itself with a unique blend of PhD-level deep tech expertise across sectors combined with wide-ranging experience of helping early-stage founders to commercialise their tech.

The funding will enable WorkBuzz to pursue international expansion, enhance sales and marketing, and deliver new tech innovations to its growing roster of clients.

ATMOS specialises in the development and manufacturing of space capsules capable of safely returning any cargo from space, regardless of scale. Its highly innovative Phoenix capsules represent the first sustainable solution for a large range of payloads and experiments.

The funding will enable Oliva to expand its network of skilled therapists, launch in new markets and languages, develop their pioneering ‘Oliva Care Model’, and leverage AI to enhance their human-to-human online care journeys.

Ten of the most promising start-ups in Northern Ireland have each been awarded £10,000 proof of concept (POC) grants following their involvement in Catalyst’s early-stage entrepreneurship programme Co-Founders.

Art of Cloud has announced the appointment of Liz Rhodes as its new CEO. Rhodes, 49, was previously COO at the Leeds-based Salesforce consultancy and has helped oversee a period of record growth.

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.