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...
16 Feb 2023
An award-winning children’s nursery has been saved from the brink of closure thanks to expert help from a leading Shropshire financial company.
Best Friends Day Nursery, in Chester, faced closure when their landlord gave them notice to quit but the pandemic stopped them from finding a new home.
After a traumatic few years, the nursery is now back up to 14 staff and 52 children and has been...
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...
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...
21 Sep 2022
New figures which show growing numbers of people are cutting their workplace pension contributions to make ends meet during the cost-of-living crisis are deeply worrying, a leading financial expert says.
Lee Fellows, director at Shropshire-based Q Financial Services, says the figures show the impact the crisis is having on families across the region – but also point to a possible pensions...
15 Aug 2022
A partner at a leading Shropshire financial firm has been shortlisted for a prestigious national award.
Twenty-two-year old Josh Timbrell – who was made a partner at Q Commercial Finance just three years after he first joined the company – has been shortlisted for the Rising Star of the Year award at the 2022 Commercial Broker awards.
The awards are organised by the National Association of...
13 May 2022
A thriving Shropshire cupcake and dessert company is enjoying the sweet taste of success after moving into a new home thanks to expert support from Q Financial Services.
Crystal’s Cupcakes has swapped its old base in the Parade in Shrewsbury for a new home at Sweetlake Business Park in the town.
Q Commercial finance partner David Wells helped organise the finance for the move, which has seen the...
05 May 2022
Homeowners are being urged not to panic after the Bank of England raised interest rates to their highest levels in 13 years this afternoon.
Leading Midlands financial services company Q Financial Services says that whilst today’s increase to one per cent is another blow to homeowners hit by the cost of living crisis, there are steps they can take to minimise its impact.
Q director of operations...
04 Oct 2021
A leading Shropshire commercial finance company has strengthened its team with the appointment of a new partner.
Q Commercial Finance, which has bases in Wellington and Shrewsbury, has promoted Josh Timbrell to the role just three years after he first joined the company.
Director Steve Parry said the promotion reflected the hugely important role Josh had played with Q and the company’s ambition...
01 Apr 2021
An ambitious Shropshire financial services company is to open a new office in Shrewsbury town centre as part of its expansion.
Q Financial Services, which launched in 2016, has impressive headquarters at Haygate Road in Wellington.
Now the company is to open its second office, this time in the county town, at The Old School House, 4 St Austin’s Friars, just off Lower Claremont Bank.
Q Financial...