Latest Financial Support for Businesses
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme extended until October
The furlough scheme sees the government paying 80% of employees’ salaries up to £2,500 a month. In April...
GreenBox launches online cannabidiol shop
A new Brixton-based company GreenBox that promotes well-being products derived from cannabidiol (CBD) has launched online. Paul Gurney launched www.greenbox.co.uk in April after realising there...
Brixton Village NHS hamper donations
NHS Hampers were put together by Brixton Village management and tenants and delivered to Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill today (Friday 30 April).
Brixton Village...
Squire & Partners launch One Love NHS project
A team at Squire & Partners – architects and designers based at The Department Store in Brixton – including in-house clothing and textile designer...
Cornercopia launches online shop as Ginger sits it out
Ginger, the Cornercopia cat, is setting an example for us all by staying in and passing up the chance to people-watch in the still-open...
A stitch online …
Brixton-based sustainable womenswear brand Lowie is hosting a free weekly online crafting workshop – the Patch Up
More than 30 people attended the first on...
Brixton Village traders still open for business
Brixton Village and Market Row are open from 8am-5pm Tuesday to Saturday, but closed for the foreseeable future on Sundays and Mondays.
A spokesperson for...
Mayor’s ‘Pay it Forward’ scheme to aid small traders
London mayor Sadiq Khan has launched “Pay it Forward”, a scheme to help people who want to support their local independent shops, restaurants, cafés,...
Dig deep for Brixton’s record stores
Saturday is Record Store Mail Order Day 2020 – Medya Gungor celebrates Brixton’s stores and encourages everyone to support them through the pandemic
Saturday 18 April...
Virtual school for advertising talent seeks students
The Brixton Finishing School, the acclaimed 10-week digital creative and accelerator programme for underrepresented young people in the advertising and media industries, has launched...
You’ll never work alone …
Lambeth libraries offer members access to a wide range of business and study reference sources and other resources, as well as help with driving...
Brixton Local – so good they named it twice …
Two online initiatives to bring together Brixton’s physically separated sellers and buyers have launched this week.
The Brixton Business improvement District (BID) today (8 April)...
Atlantic Road scaffolding there until Christmas
The forest of scaffolding on Atlantic Road that holds up the overground station platform above it is likely to be in place until the...
Support for Brixton’s self employed explained
Brixton accountants One Abacus explain what yesterday's (26 March) announcement by the Chancellor will mean for the self-employed
Coronavirus Self-employment Income Support Scheme
This was announced...
Brixton accountants put together information to help small businesses
One Abacus – a local firm of accountants – has collated information to help small businesses and freelancers see what measures have been put...
‘Full fibre’ broadband plans for Brixton
Brixton businesses and residents with a need for speed from internet connections that are among the slowest in London are invited to a drop-in...