Forthcoming Event

BISTwo ‘pathfinder’ Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will lead a national seminar, to improve regulation & stimulate growth on 31 October 2012.
 
The FREE event will aim to share best practice throughout the UK’s LEPs using workshops and case studies. The seminar has come about after businesses in Pathfinder LEPs expressed concern about their relationship with local regulators.

Some are apprehensive of making contact with local officers or simply find it difficult to speak to the right person. Others cite the approach and attitude of regulatory services officers, and access to advice as problems for them.
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ACEArts Council England are offering you an exclusive opportunity to talk to Dame Liz Forgan, Chair, Arts Council England, in a live chat online on Thursday 20 September 2012. .
 
Submit your questions now through our Facebook page or via Twitter using the hashtag #ACElivechat. This is the third in a series of regular live chats in which ACE invite their audience to talk with key representatives from the Arts Council to find out more about what we do, and how we are spending public money to achieve our mission of 'great art for everyone'.
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FRC: The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is inviting Preparers and Users to discussions with IASB staff to help gather evidence on the implementation of IFRS 8 ‘Operating Segments’.
 
The aim of the meeting is to assist FRC in formulating a response to the IASB’s post implementation review that reflects the views of the UK. IFRS 8 is the first international accounting standard to be subject to a post-implementation review (PIR).  You are invited to participate in either of the following meetings to be held at the FRC offices:
Preparers - 20 September, 2012 – 4-6pm
Users 9 October, 2012 – 4-6pm
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UKOCUK Online Centres will be holding their Digital evolution, local action conference in London and you’re invited!  

The conference aims to inspire social change in local communities by providing delegates with a view of the high level policy areas that affect them, as well as providing practical hints on how to implement it in their own situations.  It 
also aims to uncover the barriers organisations face when engaging with new online tools.

Digital evolution, local action is the UK’s only conference that supports & inspires community organisations to do more using technology and it is taking place at the BT Centre in London, on Tuesday 27 November 2012. .
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