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23/03/2025

18/03/2025

Do you own, manage or work at a restaurant, cafe or takeaway? The FSA has recently published new guidance on how to provide written allergen information for consumers. Make sure you know your responsibilities.

https://www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/news/updated-industry-guidance-issued-for-food-allergen-information-in-the-out-of-home-sector

18/11/2022

Innovate UK is offering loans between £100,000 and £2million to micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Loans are for highly innovative late-stage research and development (R&D) projects with the best potential for the future. There should be a clear route to commercialisation and economic impact.

UK registered businesses can apply for loans for innovative projects with strong commercial potential to significantly improve the UK economy.

18/11/2022

Since 6 April 2022, almost 21,600 Self Assessment customers, who were unable to pay their tax bill in full, have set up a payment plan to spread the cost into manageable monthly instalments – an increase of around 3,900 customers on the previous year – HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed....

20/09/2022

If you are making food from home, and selling (or simply supplying) it to others, then you are a home-based food producer, and it is important that you are fully compliant with the rules and regulations surrounding the production of food items from home.

You would benefit from using our online toolkit, which is designed to assess your specific business needs and give you a bespoke report on what you need to put in place to comply with the food legislation relevant to your business.

Our toolkit saves you lengthy online searches and enables you to find simple and relevant advice in one place. It can help to guide you through the law on safety, information, labelling and composition of your food, as well as providing information on distance-selling rules.

The toolkit can be found at:

www.tssw.org.uk/business/homebased-food-producers-toolkit/

All you need to do is answer some questions, download the report, and review the information in it. That information will include links for you to follow to ensure that you are fully apprised of your responsibilities.

No personal data is collected by the toolkit - but we welcome feedback and commentary.

16/09/2022

If you are making any kind of food from home - and selling (or simply supplying) it to others - you are a home-based food producer.

Why not access our online toolkit? This is designed to assess your specific business needs and give you a bespoke report on the rules you need to follow and the regulations you need to comply with, including those surrounding labelling, product description, safety, and distance selling.

Instead of spending lots of time looking at guidance from various sites, you can use our toolkit to find all the advice that is relevant to you.

The toolkit can be found at:

www.tssw.org.uk/business/homebased-food-producers-toolkit/

All you have to do is answer some simple questions and download your report. Then simply review the information it contains and make any changes that might be required in your business.

And, if you change the type of food you make - or the way you work - you can easily run the toolkit again for fresh advice on your new business.

No personal data is collected by the toolkit, and we welcome your feedback about it.

15/09/2022

Do you make confectionery at home? And are you selling (or simply supplying) it to others? If so - you are a home-based food producer. This applies to any food item you might be making at home.

There are rules that you need to abide by and about which you can easily learn via our online toolkit. This is designed to assess your specific business needs and gives you a bespoke report on everything that you need to comply with.

Just visit our page at:

www.tssw.org.uk/business/homebased-food-producers-toolkit/

Then, all you need do is answer our questions before downloading your own bespoke report, which includes links to relevant information and help.

Should you decide to change from confectionery to a different product, you can run the toolkit again using your new information.

The toolkit does not collect personal data and we welcome feedback on its use.

04/07/2022

The Business Fire Safety Awareness Tool is an interactive tool to help small business owners understand their legal duties for fire safety in the workplace. It is now available to access for free here:

 ‘An interactive tool to help small business owners understand their legal duties for fire safety in the workplace’.

12/01/2022

Devon Chamber of Commerce
Federation of Small Businesses Plymouth Small Businesses and Services
Omicron Hospitality and Leisure business grant applications for local businesses are now open. A link to the form and eligibility requirements can be found here:

Updated 13 January 2022 Omicron Hospitality and Leisure business grant In December, the Government announced the introduction of new grant support for hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses in England. The scheme offers support to businesses in recognition of the fact that the rise of the...