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The Business Crime Hub is here to support businesses across London. With current events across the Country effecting businesses we thought it would be timely to re share the advice we recently developed to support businesses prepare and protect themselves during demonstrations and protests.
We are delighted to confirm the The Earls Court Development Company and London Gatwick are co-partners at our London Labour Reception at the Labour Party Conference in September. We look forward to welcoming politicians, opinion formers and BusinessLDN members from across the capital for short speeches and networking. The reception will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the priorities for the new Government and London businesses in the months and years ahead ✔ 📢 Final sponsorship opportunities are available for the Monday daytime, get in touch to find out more. For more information, please visit our website - https://lnkd.in/e57Y4Ppe.
📽 Missed out on the launch of our blueprint for a UK collective carbon offsetting fund with Arup? 📽 Playback below to see Muniya Barua, Sarah Brownlie (nee Thienel), Stephen Thompson, Robert Jenkins, Matt Prescott and Ben Smith discuss how the carbon credit market is evolving, and how consolidating the £150m UK firms currently spend on offsets each year can drive increased impact. Full report: https://lnkd.in/e8Za666H
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BusinessLDN is continuing to bang the drum about a technical but vitally important issue of demand for purchasing Section 106 affordable homes. We have produced this briefing note with Pascal Levine from DS2 outlining the problem and some potential solutions. The Government has set out a raft of reforms to support its ambitious housing targets, which are welcome. However, the impact of much of it will take time to deliver so we also need immediate action to support stalled schemes which can deliver housing now. A link to the briefing in comments below along with some coverage of this issue. #getbuilding #affordablehousing #housinginLondon
There are still opportunities to sponsor categories at the 20th anniversary of the Building London Planning Awards, in partnership with the Mayor of London. The awards evening on the 16th October will bring together business leaders and key stakeholders from across London to celebrate the exemplary work going on in the capital. The categories available for sponsorship include: 🏘 Best New Place to Live 🏢 Best New Place to Work 🏗 Best Mixed-Use Scheme 🏙 Best Heritage or Culture Project ♻ Best Project for Sustainable Planning 📢 Best Community Engagement Outcomes 🌇 Best Borough Led Projects 🏆 Mayor’s Award for Good Growth If you would like to have a conversation about sponsoring a category, please contact Sean Fleetwood at sean.fleetwood@businessldn.co.uk.
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Thanks to Howard Dawber for being the guest speaker at our BusinessLDN ‘London as a place to invest’ roundtable yesterday and thanks to Julie Carlyle and everyone at our partner EY for hosting the session. So many enduring strengths for London to build on, but arguably the most important is the breadth & depth of the capital. London is home to a uniquely balanced portfolio of firms and sectors. This diversity - and the talent pool that supports it - is a key draw for global investment. We also earmarked some nice quick wins for government to help get growth and investment going. These include a slick, joined-up concierge service for international investors between No 10 and City Hall (and ditto for elsewhere in the UK), along with some early clarity on what will be the toolbox of financing models & incentives to crowd in private investment for infrastructure and other public services. Thanks to everyone for taking part. Look forward to seeing you at another session soon. If you'd like to hear more about our ‘London as a place to invest’ work, please drop me a line.
Read our August email update for all the latest on: 🌳 Our work with Arup on a blueprint for a business-led UK Collective Carbon Offsetting Fund 🏡 Recommendations, compiled alongside PwC UK, for making the Greater London Authority's new City Hall developer a success 📑 Member opportunities to feed into consultations on this year's Budget, planning reform, employment rights and the future of travel in the capital 🤝 Upcoming dates for the diary as we continue our Leading London, Meet the Deputy Mayor and Borough Leader series 🎙 Fresh content from our podcast channel, blog and members' corner https://lnkd.in/e7HckDx6
In City AM, our Muniya Barua and Anna Purchas of members KPMG UK discuss findings from the latest London labour market pulse check, drawing on research from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation and S&P Global. Article in full from Charlie Conchie ⬇
London’s labour market is stuck at a “standstill” as firms hold back expansion plans despite signs the UK economy is picking up pace, a new survey has shown. Job vacancies and placements across the capital hit fresh lows through June as job openings recorded their 16th consecutive month of contraction, according to a survey compiled by S&P Global for KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. In its latest labour market pulse check, S&P Global recorded a reading of 47.6 for London’s jobs market. Any reading reading below 50 indicates contraction. Permanent placements also slumped again to 46.6, with the latest figures marking 21 months since the last positive reading in September 2022. Anna Purchas, Vice-Chair and London Office Senior Partner at KPMG, said firms may have hit pause on expansion plans as the country was gripped by uncertainty surrounding the snap election in early July. ✍️ Charlie Conchie Read the full story here 👇 https://lnkd.in/dSGh4Hya
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is running a webinar on how to apply for funding to support upskilling in use of artificial intelligence on this coming Thursday 1 August - find out more and register ⬇ https://lnkd.in/dA-WhxS3
✍ "Restoring the fortunes of our high-tax, low productivity nation in the face of dire government finances and stretched public services will be akin to turning around a tanker in choppy waters... "Unlocking the investment needed to produce a step-change in our economic performance will require a laser-like focus on delivery." ✍ In his latest opinion piece for the BusinessLDN blog, John Dickie outlines what London businesses are hoping to see from the new Government. He recommends low-cost measures which can collectively have a high impact on growth - such as clarity around future tax policy, scrapping stamp duty on share transactions and apprenticeship levy reform - whilst stressing the need for long-term action, especially in delivering major transport projects, to spur private investment. Read in full ⬇ https://lnkd.in/eFWYG4Mx