Guildford's Friday Swimmers has today been announced as one of the organisations to receive the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.

New research by consumer champions MoneyExpert.com has revealed that 1 in 4 feel worse off this year than they did two years ago. This may be because saving itself has gotten harder: the average Brit only saves £891 a year, with 1 in 5 not putting any money at all aside for a rainy day.

The auto repair centres of the future will have more female workers, use holograms and robotic assistants, but the industry is currently facing a diversity struggle, with just a quarter of Brits (26%) and less than one in five women (19%) considering a job in a car garage.

Paul Adams from Branston Adams stopped by to talk about why he personally chose to walk 12miles for Phyllis Tuckwell.

The latest report from leading small business loans platform Funding Circle and Oxford Economics, ‘The Big Business of Small Business’, highlights that while the value of new bank lending to large businesses increased by 43% between 2015 and 2018, it has decreased to SMEs by 3%[1] - more than £1 billion per annum.

New research out today suggests many British employees are feeling disillusioned at work as well over half (57%) of employees regularly work longer than their contracted hours and a quarter (25%) are too scared to approach their boss about flexible working. In fact, 62% would consider a change of jobs instead.

The UK is facing a disability employment crisis. One million disabled people shunned by UK jobs market due to outdated attituded and scandalous silence at board meetings. We spoke to Jeff Dodds, MD at Virgin Media, Mark Hodgkinson, Cheif Exec at Scope and Charles Bloch, a case study who is disabled and has been turned down for employment numerous times despite being qualified.

Val Buckingham from Fredericks Foundation spoke to Henriette from Inspiring Enterprise who help unemployed people and people not in work, such as students and carers to start their own business or social enterprise.

Dave Nyss and Hannah Mazhar stop by to discuss loneliness in the SME community and the benefits of Collaborative Networking.

Dave Nyss from Real Learning stopped by to talk about anxiety and how to manage it.