The £200m sixth round of the Regional Growth Fund has been launched by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. Around £460m from the first five rounds of the fund has been received by North West companies with aims to support business growth and…

National conference and live events services provider Saville Audio Visual has just been appointed as AV supplier to the Jockey Club Racecourses for the Northwest region. The appointment covers flagship racing venues at Haydock Park,…

Next month the One World Festival will return for 2014 with a 'World in One City' theme as a main feature of the International Festival for Business. Set to take place on Sunday July 6th (12pm-6pm) in Williamson Square, the "cultural…

Children as young as five at schools across Merseyside are set to be taught a lesson about the risks of using loan sharks. Ready-made lesson packs will be used by teachers in primary schools throughout the region to warn their pupils about…

A joining of the city’s two football clubs brought the crowds to the third Liverpool Business Week event. It was standing room only after more than 150 people packed into the Hard Day’s Night Hotel to listen to the chief executives of both…

Liverpool Waterfront Business Partnership (LWBP) is haling the success of it’s inaugural International Waterfront Forum at Tate Liverpool by confirming speakers are already lined up to represent Sydney and Toronto for 2015. Other…

Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old education activist from Pakistan, who made a remarkable recovery after an attempted assassination by the Taliban, has been confirmed as the headline speaker for World Merit Day. World Merit Day The ‘World…

Nicola Horlick, CEO of Money&Co, will be the keynote speaker at FD Solutions’ finance seminar on 26 June. Money & Co announced its first £1m crowd-funding loan secured on behalf of a client last week. Nicola Horlick (pictured) said:…

Pavis Financial Management has appointed Tom Calland as a trainee investment advisor. Liverpool-born Calland joins the firm next month following completion of a masters degree in Economics & Finance at the University of Liverpool, where…

The Mind Your Own Business (MYOB) programme, which launched ealier this month at The Old Hall at the Cotton Exchange, continued with the second of four events. Around 40 delegates assembled at the venue, which will be home to all four of…