Blog Posts

More about Community Catalysts….

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my blog.  I think the best way is to share where my working life started and the influence on my values and behaviours throughout my work. At 14 I started…

Takeaways from the recent Budget

Chancellor Rishi Sunak presented the 2021 Budget on 3 March 2021. We asked the expert members of our ‘Finance sector’ peer group to comment with their thoughts. The press headline was “Corporation Tax increased to 25%”. In fact, the finer…

Why You Need a Will

The Covid-19 pandemic has been the cause of untold misery and the deaths of millions around the world since the beginning of 2019. Millions of families have endured the loss of their loved ones, many of which have been in…

February Update – Another record-breaking month!

What an incredible start to the year it’s been here at The Oxford Business Community Network (OBCN), following a record-breaking month in January (read more here) we’ve gone one better. In the month of February, we started with 116 tickets…

The current housing and mortgage market

I thought I would start with giving you all a quick insight into what the housing market and mortgage market is looking like since the pandemic kicked in last year. House Prices First fact that hits me is that, despite…

Are you serious about your data?

A member profile by OBCN founder Mike Foster. Last week, I caught up with our members Databasix UK, who are an organisation with the vision of bringing people and data together, in order to change the way that data is…

Variety is the spice of life

This is a blog about portfolio careers by Rachel Brushfield, The Talent Liberator from Energise – The Talent Liberation Company. Introduction I have been running my own business Energise for over 24 years and have always enjoyed variety. In 2011,…

January Update – what an incredible month!

What an incredible month it’s been here at the Oxford Business Community Network (OBCN), following member Ben Thompson, who runs Thompson & Terry Recruitment joining Mike Foster on the leadership team. More can be found here. Outside OBCN, The Business…