finance
16 Mar 2023
The Budget was mixed news for manufacturers and SMEs across the region, according to Neil Lloyd, managing director of Shropshire law firm FBC Manby Bowdler.
Neil, who is also the chairman of the Training & Manufacturing Group (TMG), said plans for a new investment zone in the West Midlands Combined Authority area could kickstart a fresh era of investment in innovation and new technology.
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15 Mar 2023
One of the region’s leading financial companies today welcomed the ‘steady-as-you-go’ approach taken in Jeremy Hunt’s Budget but warned that the cost-of-living crisis was still causing huge issues for families and businesses.
Experts at Q Financial Services say the Budget will maintain the economic stability restored by the Chancellor in the wake of Liz Truss’s short-lived regime.
But Q...
08 Feb 2023
A Shropshire financial firm is helping the chain take the strain by throwing its weight behind an innovative cycle delivery scheme.
Q Financial Services is sponsoring work to promote Shropshire Cycle Hub’s free Cycle Delivery Scheme in Wellington which delivers shopping to people’s doors across the town.
A team of volunteers use electric bikes to deliver shopping from town centre stores to...
16 Jan 2023
A fast-growing Shropshire financial firm is sponsoring a year of adrenaline-fuelled events – and helping raise cash for a special charity.
Q Financial Services – which has offices in Wellington and Shrewsbury – has extended its sponsorship deal with Adrenaline Sporting Events (ASE) to cover all 11 of its 2023 events.
Q team members will take part in the events to raise cash for the Little Rascals...
12 Dec 2022
Fortune really can favour the brave – that's the message from a leading Shropshire financial firm for savers looking to boost their income in the face of a recession.
Bank interest rates are now about three per cent, but 10 per cent inflation is wiping out any benefit from traditional savings accounts, according to Lee Fellows, director of Q Financial Services.
Lee advises those with money to...
05 Dec 2022
An event to highlight the many funding options available to businesses in the Marches has been hailed a huge success.
The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership hosted the event for intermediaries working with businesses across Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin to help them direct their clients to the huge range of funding and support on offer.
The event, staged at Telford College...
14 Nov 2022
Turbulence in the UK financial markets has had a huge knock-on effect for homebuyers – but the mortgage your bank offers might not be the best deal for you, according to one leading advice firm.
The financial upheaval of the last few months has led the Bank of England to raise base interest rates on a scale not seen for many years, with mortgage lenders following suit.
Dan Harris, a partner at Q...
19 Oct 2022
A leading Shropshire building contractor has made a strategic appointment to its senior management board to build on its continuing commercial success.
Charlotte Davies, the former finance manager at Pave Aways Building Contractors, has been promoted to the newly created role of finance director. She will sit on the senior management board and work alongside managing director Steven Owen,...
18 Oct 2022
A special event to help make sure businesses have access to the grants, loans and business support available is to be staged by the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership.
The networking breakfast - to be held in Telford on December 1 - will introduce business intermediaries to the many strands of funding support available to small and medium businesses in the Marches area.
The event will be held...
23 Sep 2022
One of the region’s leading financial experts today said the mini-budget gave much-needed clarity over the Government’s future economic policy – but said the Chancellor must make driving down inflation and lowering interest rates a top priority.
Mitch Gough, director at Q Financial Services, said moves to cut taxes and Stamp Duty, reverse the planned increase in National Insurance and scrap...
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