Carlisle based financial planners and friends of the network, Stan Sherlock Associates, is celebrating two successes to start the new year. The team has just been shortlisted for the National Family Business of the Year award with Family Business United. Family...

One of the North’s leading independent rural property advisory firms and partner to the network, H&H Land & Estates, has expanded their team as they welcome Chartered Surveyor Helena White. Based in the Kendal office, Helena will advise clients on rural...

The government has extended the ban on business evictions until the end of March because of the continuing Covid pandemic. Stephanie Johnson, Associate Solicitor at network partner Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors, provides an update. There will also be a review of...

Chesterfield-based Investors in Community, the platform that The Family Business Network uses for charitable donations, has expanded its team after seeing a 68% increase in the number of charities using the platform since March. New additions include the Teenage...

Network Partner Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors' Head of Employment & HR Joanne Stronach reports on the government's plans to crackdown on what it describes as unfair employment contracts that restrict worker freedom. The measures could include banning the use of...

Newly qualified solicitor Emma Blamire from Network Partner Cartmell Shepherd Solicitors combines her legal career with helping out on her family’s farm near Carlisle. If Emma Blamire had to choose one place to live in the world, it wouldn’t be far from her home in...

Cumbria Community Foundation is urging more community groups in the Wigton area to apply for funding through the Joyce Wilkinson Charitable Trust Fund. Joyce Wilkinson, who lived in Westward, left a lasting legacy to her community and a wonderful way to be remembered....