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The Children's Foundation has places available for this year's Great North Run.

Social capital, the concept that refers to the quality, number and nature of contacts, can benefit women aiming to grow their business, a new survey has claimed.

The 2012 Olympic Games will have a huge impact on businesses from all over the UK, not just London, it has been claimed.

Abolishing the whole regional business support apparatus of RDAs and Business Link and replacing them with a single, web-based Business Information Service is one of the proposals containted in a new report from the Conservative Party's independent task-force on business support.

A new national survey of female business owners has found that over 80% have never applied for a government grant, with the majority saying 'they were not aware they would qualify'.

US Investment bank Goldman Sachs has pledged over $100m to promote entrepreneurial skills for 10,000 women in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

According to the author of The Sunday Times Rich List 2008, women entrepreneurs are more likely than men to use their wealth in charitable ways.

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has said that completing a tax form such as a self-assessment tax return should be a simple task.

Plans to extend the right to request flexible working could be a nightmare for small business owners, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

Agency workers will receive the same rights as permanent staff after 12 weeks' employment, under a new deal struck between the Government and the unions.