{"id":9578,"date":"2015-02-13T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9578"},"modified":"2015-02-13T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:04:06","slug":"a-golden-age-for-small-businesses-hespr-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9578","title":{"rendered":"A golden age for small businesses, & HESPR too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lord Young, Enterprise advisor to the Prime Minister, has launched a report that reviews <\/span>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\u2019s listing of conservation service providers, \u2018HESPR\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 Of particular interest to IHBC members may be the case studies (one featuring a surveyor and another of business who works with \u2018pop up\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

If you are a provider of services relating to the conservation of the historic environment you may wish to consider joining the IHBC\u2019s HESPR service (Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The benefits to a small business of joining HESPR include:<\/p>\n