‘Local Advice’ Archives
Mid Suffolk Countryside Team
We manage the Council's nature reserves and picnic areas. Managing the sites involves keeping a balance between providing recreation for the public and protecting wildlife. Events often help visitors learn more about the wildlife present as well as being fun. Make the most of the great outdoors with countryside activities in Mid [...]
Walk Over Hot Coals For The Hospice
Walk Over Hot Coals For The Hospice It may be the height of summer, but things will be hotting up for St Elizabeth Hospice this autumn. That's when the charity will be holding its first ever Firewalk where Guinness World Record holder Scott Bell will be showing people how to walk over hot coals. This sizzling family event will have a Halloween [...]
Web Design
Website design is a very personal thing and a hard art to get right. There are so many factors to making a site correct for you and your customers, that it can only be done with face to face meetings and with the person, or team, building your site understanding your business and your way of running that business. A website can be a great tool [...]
Keith Wood Associates
As everyone will have noticed we have changed government recently and the new Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne has announced 22 June as his first Budget - 2010 Budget Mark Two. The actual content of the 2010 Budget Mark Two will provide plenty of scope for speculation, with some of the expected measures being: VAT will go up to 20% [...]
Cash Is King
No matter how much money your business earns or how much profit you make, if you don't get paid on time then your bank account will soon be overdrawn. Being owed a small fortune is of no help when your bills need paying today. So, what can you do to ensure that your customers pay you on time? Improve the way you invoice Make sure that you [...]
New Life Mobility. Helping Make Life Easier
A local company with national ambitions New Life Mobility is a local company with national ambitions. Local Suffolk businessman Steve Cackett is the owner and founder of the mobility business. The business which is located in the Tower Ramparts Shopping centre in Ipswich supplies a wide range of mobility products which help older people or [...]
PMR-GCA Support East Anglia
Polymyalgia Rheumatica & Giant Cell Arteritis Have you heard of Polymyalgia Rheumatica or the connected condition Giant Cell Arteritis? Not many people have - unless they are suffering from them! However, the doctors say that PMR is quite a common occurrence amongst the elderly, although GCA is rarer. In some people PMR comes on suddenly, [...]
VAT Online Requirements
Most small businesses will be aware that online filing of VAT returns becomes mandatory from April 2010. Businesses with an annual turnover of £100,000 or more will be required to file and pay VAT by electronic methods from April, as will businesses that register for VAT from 1 April 2010, irrespective of size. This applies to VAT returns that [...]
Keith Wood Associates: Tax Return deadline
Tax Return deadline As you will have realised the deadline for filing your tax return on-line for the year ended 5 April 2009 has passed. Almost 6.5 million taxpayers filed their self assessment returns online ahead of Sunday's deadline. Now is the time to prepare for 2010 and avoid any last minute rush, unexpected tax bills and higher [...]
Your Garden
Garden Matters With Ken Crowther - House Plants If you were given a present of Hyacinths in a bowl for indoors, keep in a cool, shady spot where the temperature is about 10C (50F) and leave the container there. Once you can see the flower head peeping through move the bowl to its flowering position. For the longest flowering season this [...]
