Lord Young, Enterprise advisor to the Prime Minister, has launched a report that reviews the changing face of small businesses in the UK over the past 5 years, with case studies and a review of changes to business legislation and education support measures, changes that may well help small businesses operating on the IHBC’s listing of conservation service providers, ‘HESPR’.
The survey highlights that there are now 5.2 million small firms in the UK which account for 48% of employment and 33% of private sector turnover. Of particular interest to IHBC members may be the case studies (one featuring a surveyor and another of business who works with ‘pop up’ shops to make it easy to find premises) as well as information on recent changes to tendering procedures and ways of accessing finance for smaller firms.
If you are a provider of services relating to the conservation of the historic environment you may wish to consider joining the IHBC’s HESPR service (Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition).
The benefits to a small business of joining HESPR include:
- Searchable online service with hosted and managed web pages for each HESPR business, containing full contact details and links
- Web links from IHBC’s Home Page, the starting point for IHBC’s 30000 page web resource with 1/4million hits per month
- HESPR company listings published in IHBC’s Yearbook, circulation 5000+ (including planning authorities & other heritage regulators and leaders)
- Free tender notification service (see archive)
- One free ‘Jobs etc.’ advert & email package p.a. (worth up to £400)
- Dedicated search facility for HESPR-related events on IHBC’s events calendar (email for details)
- HESPR fliers circulated at select IHBC events, such as the IHBC’s Annual School, and IHBC-partnered events
- HESPR promotion on IHBC networks, including social media etc
