The cost of being ill and self employed ?

£3,000 price of being ill and self-employed

Self employed people are amongst the hardest hit when it comes to the financial impact of being in hospital according to a report.

The report, published by Medicash, examined the true costs of illness and s

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Pondless stream system products

Hi folksNeeding a bit of help to source some pond related products in UK or Ireland. It's a pond pump vault (essentially a perforated inspection chamber for a pump to fit into) and a spillway to start the stream off.http://store.aquascapeinc.com/c/po

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HMRC calculators and tools

All calculators and tools

• Basic PAYE Tools
• Bereavement guide
• Check if you're affected by the High Income Child Benefit charge
• Check whether your bank/building society interest can be paid without tax taken off
• Child Benefit - date of next payment
• Ch

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Photographs wanted.

Good Evening All.

For those of you that do not know me I am very shortly going live with my lawn care business here in Germany.

Whilst my web site is still in Beta we (the designers) have been throwing ideas around. I had the mock web site made up from

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iZettle

iZettle Phone Payments

 

Has anyone else come across the iZettle offer? What do you think about it?

"iZettle, the social payments company, creates services for person-to-person and business-to-consumer commerce. The first service includes an app and a m

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Council in court after parks workers suffer debilitating hand injuries

A Merseyside council has been sentenced after 29 employees were diagnosed with a debilitating condition that has left them with ongoing problems with their hands.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council af

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Plant nursery sussex

Hi, i was wondering if anyone could recommend some good plant nurseries in east and west sussex, preferably ones that offer a trade accountThanks in advance

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Do you drive a Transit?

Just a really quick question to gauge my insurance costs.

I drive a transit T350, and I pay £99 per month for fully comp insurance. I have 6 years protected no claims. I also disclose that it is sign written, has wooden racking and is parked on my dri

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Thoughts on the Stihl battery range of products

I have just been having a look through the new 2013 stihl brochure.I am about to order the 130 Kombi however the battery range caught my eye.I see that they have now released the back pack battery. It gives approx 230 minutes constant use dependant u

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Depression awareness garden

Hi folksI'm posting to let you all know about the depression awareness garden I have designed for Hampton Court which is being supported by charities including JWSSMF, TASC, Mental health Foundation One in Four amongst many others.The garden tells my

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BALI / APL or approved installer - which are the best?

We are a member of Bradstone Assured and will be shortly joining another similar installer scheme.

We are thinking of joining BALI or APL. Does anyone think that the more trade bodies you sign up for just replicate the same ideas or principles?

Can any

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Landscape industry's watershed moment

It's great when people light the 'blue touch paper', lob it in, walk away and watch......

Many must be sitting uncomfortable in the Industry, especially the Old Guard with the recent suggestions being made elsewhere on Forums.

Was it wrong for those

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Resin bond chippings.

I have been asked by a customer about laying a resin based chipping on their drive way.Where abouts can I buy this product from?CheersMark

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Premium membership payment options

Pro Practitioner (includes Pro Designer)

• £40.00 per year - taken as a single payment
• £42.00 per year - taken as 2 x six monthly payments of £21.00 each
• £44.00 per year - taken as four quarterly payments of £11.00 each
• £46.80 per year - taken as 12 m

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Sub contracting

Just wondering if say a ball part figure you were paying a guy 12.50 hr and charging him out at 15.00hr so you make 20.00 on a 8 hr day what is the true figure you make is it worth it at the end of the day it's hard to get anyone with experience at l

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Contract Notice - Construction of Jubilee Square, Leicester

Leicester City Council’s Transport Strategy Team would like to invite contractors to tender for the construction of the Jubilee Square Project via Pre-Qualification Questionnaire, Invitation to Tender and Tender evaluation process. Jubilee Square pro

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Chelsea Flower Show - Trade stand build - Contractor required

I have a client that wishes a trade stand built at this years Chelsea flower show. The design is very simple and approx 90 m2 of paving (supplied by client) raised wooden planters, planting, simple self contained water feature. All materials other th

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kikuyu grass - anyone heard of it?

It's apparently a (fairly coarse) type of grass that's quite resilient to bitch spot/dog urine. No mention of it in a forum search so I thought i'd see if anyone had any experience. I expect it's so aggressive that it becomes a pest, and probably sho

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grass quiz

We operate an independent lawn care company in Notts. This year we have come up against Grain Thump on 2 occassions with startling results which I thought I would share as a fun quiz. Both lawns need a lot of attention, are full of moss, thatch , dra

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January's fastest growing websites were dominated by the financial services sector, say compete

January's fastest growing sites were dominated by the financial services sector.

Data from American research site compete says with tax season in the United Sates in full swing, tax solution websites are grew rapidly from the start of 2013.

This mayb

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