Nelsons Wins Award Hat-Trick

Nelsons picked up three key industry awards at this year’s Derby & District and Leicestershire Law Society Awards ceremonies. The firm was crowned the ‘Large Law Firm of the Year’ at both the Derby & District Law Society Awards 2019 and the Leicestershire Law Society Awards 2019 – with associate and solicitor Dianne Collins also picking…

Small Business Sunday Success for Kedleston Safety

Derby based Health and Safety Consultancy Kedleston Safety and Derby Hub member gets a Twitter Boost from Theo Paphitis. A Derby based firm has received a business boost from Retail Entrepreneur Theo Paphitis. Last week, Suzanne Dixon, owner and MD of Kedleston Safety, tweeted Theo about her business during ‘Small Business Sunday’ and was one of six weekly winners to gain a retweet…

Equity Release – how does it work?

I’m often asked, “how does equity release work?” There are two forms of equity release. Lifetime mortgage; The loan is secured against your property and you retain ownership. You can protect a portion of the property for inheritance purposes. Interest is charged and added to the balance, which is cleared when you (or the second applicant if the loan…

Equity Release Case Studies

Equity release has been around for a long time and it’s becoming an increasingly popular way for me to help my clients. I’m often asked by people I meet out and about “what do people use it for?” Let me tell you a story or two about my clients (all names have been changed) Mrs A owned her home…

Regional Recognition for Ask the Chameleon

Local business Ask the Chameleon has won a prestigious regional award in recognition of its success and will now represent the East Midlands in the national finals. Ask the Chameleon, headed by director Rachel Hayward, was crowned micro business of the year at the East Midlands Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Awards 2019. The FSB…

Networking Event With Aspiring Business Owners

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to the 2019 Networking Event kindly sponsored once again by Nelsons on Wednesday 13th March, 5.30PM – 6.30PM in the Atrium at Kedleston Road. We hope you’ll agree with this always a great event, enabling us to support 1st year business students who are completing a module about Developing an…

Business Woman Proud to Visit House of Lords

Burton-based Ask the Chameleon director Rachel Hayward joined some of the top UK’s top small businesses to receive special recognition at an exclusive house of lords reception. Ask the Chameleon was recognised as one of this year’s Small Biz 100, which had been running ahead of last weekend’s Small Business Saturday which was celebrated across…