4/7/2025 2:18:31 PM Spring Budget 2025: What this means for the retail sector By Tony Sturge Steve Baluchi Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ 2025 Spring Budget introduced a series of measures that are set to impact the retail landscape, some more...
4/3/2025 12:24:34 PM Enforcing security over shares: Why this serves as a powerful tool for lenders By Patrick Donnan Tom Rees When lenders provide financing, a key element of any lending decision will be the availability and quality of any security provided, with...
3/14/2025 9:47:13 AM Exploring the Future of Retail: Challenges, opportunities, and insights By Daniel Beddison Last week, I attended FRP’s Retail Breakfast event, where a panel of industry experts shared valuable insights into the evolving retail...
3/10/2025 11:17:18 AM COVID Loans: A financial lifeline or a growing burden for UK taxpayers? By Anthony Simmons Tony Sturge As the UK approaches the five-year mark since the COVID-19 pandemic, we reflect on the vast financial measures extended to businesses....
2/28/2025 10:49:20 AM Why Charity Trustees need our support more than ever! By Warren Brooking Charities shape our communities, but how do we support them in times of crisis? Rescuing Relate, the national counselling charity, was...
11/25/2024 2:40:45 PM Motor Finance – preparing for uncertainty By Daniel Conway Much has been written in recent weeks about the motor finance industry. The resounding theme that I’ve taken away from reading insight...
11/18/2024 10:46:59 AM We Reap What We Sow By Luke Wilson There are always triumphs and setbacks in life and business, but will the post-budget world amount to anything more than the cyclical,...
10/22/2024 2:46:27 PM Working up a storm - the FRP Question Time pre-budget review By Luke Wilson With a select group of business leaders eagerly awaiting the outcome of Ms Reeves Budget, there was an inquisitive air and a lot of...
10/17/2024 10:35:37 AM Stuck between a rock and a hard place: Rising wages and narrowing margins – what’s next for SMEs? By Luke Wilson Last week, The Times published an article citing a study of 90,000 UK SMEs, showing an average wage increase of 8.2% in the year to...
10/7/2024 4:03:07 PM Walking through Black history: the untold stories By Jenna Gadhavi Last week a group of us at FRP along with some of our clients, had the privilege of joining a walking tour by Black History Walks through...
10/2/2024 12:43:41 PM “Pharmacies closing, rising costs, shortages putting lives at risk…” By Ian Corfield Justin Matthews It will have been worrying to the consumer to see such headlines, yet from our recent experience these are real issues that the retail...
9/30/2024 11:50:41 AM Are we swapping gas dependence for battery dependence? By Simon Baggs As many will know the key problem with renewable energy is its intermittency. When the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow, then...
9/30/2024 7:55:10 AM Who benefits most from CSR? A reflection on our journey By Aisling Ridge A while back, a wise colleague posed an intriguing question: "Who gains the most from CSR - the charity or the business?" It was a good...
9/12/2024 1:51:52 PM The lighthouse to avoid the rocks... A look ahead By Luke Wilson As ever, ‘back to school’ and the shift into Autumn provides an opportunity to reflect on the state of play in the UK economy. For the...
8/13/2024 4:20:36 PM Building Futures: What’s next for UK infrastructure? By Simon Baggs Olivia Perkins, Morgan Sindall Infrastructure’s Managing Director, sits down with our Restructuring Advisory Director, Simon Baggs, to...
6/10/2024 2:54:16 PM Navigating the growing demand of the UK Data Centre Industry By Anthony Demetriades The UK's data centre industry is experiencing robust growth fuelled by the surge in digital technologies and the impact of landmark...