OakNorth, the neobank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, and Founders4Schools, the award-winning ed-tech charity for teachers, today announce a new partnership to support 100,000 secondary school students (11-16 year-olds) – including 40,000 from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds – over the next three years. The programme will provide secondary school students with mentorship andContinue Reading

New graduates face an increasingly tough jobs market, with advertised roles down by a third from last year. According to data from Adzuna, the jobs website, about 23,300 job vacancies were advertised for graduates in September, compared with 34,300 in the same month last year. Across advertised roles, wages fellContinue Reading

A national roadshow to support and raise the profile of small businesses all around the country is being launched by Small Business Saturday to help firms cope with persistent economic challenges. With an aim to spotlight and celebrate the vital contribution of the nation’s 5.5 million small businesses to theContinue Reading

UK’s Small businesses are slowly regaining confidence in the economy, despite falling revenues and tightening recruitment, a survey shows. Optimism was measured at -8 points in the third quarter of the year, up from -14.2 points in the second but still below the first-quarter reading of -2.8. It means thatContinue Reading

A social token (fan token) is a blockchain token that is sold or issued by a content creator. A social token is a contract between a holder and an issuer that gives the holder certain privileges and access. Social tokens typically offer exclusive content or experiences from the creator. InfluencersContinue Reading

Online retail sales have contracted at the sharpest pace on record this month, dragged lower by people cutting back on their spending because of higher interest rates and an uncertain economic outlook. Monthly internet sales dropped to a weighted balance of -78 per cent in the year to October, theContinue Reading