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For businesses that are finding it difficult to gain access to capital through traditional lending sources, such as high street banks and lenders, worry not. Today, there is a plethora of alternative finance options available to entrepreneurs and established business owners.

Sustainability is a confusing word. With transparency and authenticity being seen as key to brand loyalty – it’s time businesses made sure that every element of their operations makes a positive impact.

Wellness is now part of the conversation in everyday life, yet when it comes to the workplace, many employers are still lagging behind. Here’s how to catch up...

Sitting within the borough of Tower Hamlets, Bow is part of eclectic East London. Discover why your business would benefit from being based here, plus some of the area’s popular haunts.

Stuck in the rat race with no time to reflect more deeply on your work path? Try listening to a podcast on your commute or lunch break. Mercedes Bankston from the Founder Institute shares her top four suggestions

As one of the capital’s fastest-growing and most exciting areas, Hackney attracts people from all over the world with its creativity and vibrant urban life, but why should you do business here? Here are our top 5 reasons to base your company in this part of the city.

Established businesses are steadily beginning to venture beyond the confines of the City, attracted by the hustle, bustle and creativity of other areas. East London is now high in demand as a home for growing and established businesses; it’s convenient, lively and inspiring.

Set within one of London's fastest-growing and most exciting areas, Workspace welcomes its new Hackey-located building, Mare Street Studios, to its growing portfolio of spaces. Its doors are due to open in early 2020 to a swath of scene-setting professionals seeking out one of the most fashionable postcodes in London.

1 in 7 of us in the UK are “neurodiverse”, but what does it mean to be neurodiverse and how can employers adjust the work environment to cater to this particular hidden disability? Journalist Helen Parton talks to the design experts and discovers how Workspace is driving positive change.

When did you last make a major mistake at work? Getting it wrong may feel awful in the short term but it can ultimately help you succeed in business.

We caught up with Raz Ghafoor, Co-founder at start-up ThirdEye. He shares how he turned his belief that AI will change the world into a game-changing business that fights theft.

We chat to Henry Milroy, Co-founder of Pan 'n' Ice, based at Canalot Studios in Ladbroke Grove. He tells us how dreaming big can pay off and how he stumbled across a mind-boggling new way to serve ice cream.

We meet photo innovator Oliver Reed, whose company Say Fromage have settled into their new home at Workspace’s Fuel Tank in Deptford

Bank loans are an important source of funding for any business, helping to fulfil orders, employ staff or finance patent protection applications. This guide uses a handy acronym to help you fully prepare for a loan application and maximise your chances of receiving capital.

Our brand-new centre, and former printer ink factory, is now home to 37 stunning offices and studios. But that's not all it has to offer. It boasts a prime central location with superb links to the City – a hub for businesses, both big and small.

We speak to Emanuela Vartolomei, a leading independent thinker on the future of financial services and Founder and CEO at investment information initiative All Street Research. She shares her journey, along with entrepreneurial advice for budding founders.