About this Event
In this Briefing, we will be joined by Rob Basini from the Federation of Small Businesses in Wales, Jo Roberts of Fabulous Welshcakes and Vicky Mann of Near Me Now and VZTA town centres apps, to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing small businesses in Wales currently.
Following the pandemic, businesses have encountered the long term impacts from lockdowns, a cost of living crisis which has impacted on customers, a cost of doing business crisis, rocketing energy costs, rises in interest rates and inflation, and significant challenges around recruitment and retention of staff. The impacts of Britain leaving the EU continues to affect many businesses in several ways. As businesses look to recover from what’s been such a difficult time for so many, we will also look during this session at what opportunities exist for small businesses to grow.
Rob Basini will give overview of the realities of business life for small businesses in Wales, and will touch on some key indicators, the role governments need to play, and the importance of business support, of Higher and Further Education in developing a skilled and able workforce, and of profit in allowing businesses to continue their journeys towards net zero.
Manylion y Digwyddiad
Yn y Sesiwn Hysbysu dros Frecwast hwn, bydd Rob Basini o Ffederasiwn Busnesau Bach Cymru, Jo Roberts o Fabulous Welshcakes a Vicky Mann o Near Me Now ac app canol trefi VZTA, yn ymuno â ni i drafod yr heriau a’r cyfleoedd sy’n wynebu busnesau bach yng Nghymru ar hyn o bryd.
Yn dilyn y pandemig, mae busnesau wedi dioddef effeithiau hirdymor cyfnodau cloi, argyfwng costau byw sydd wedi effeithio ar gwsmeriaid, argyfwng costau busnes, cynnydd costau ynni, cynnydd mewn cyfraddau llog a chwyddiant, a heriau sylweddol o ran recriwtio a chadw staff. Mae effeithiau Prydain yn gadael yr UE yn parhau i effeithio ar lawer o fusnesau mewn sawl ffordd. Wrth i fusnesau geisio ail-adeiladu ar ôl yr hyn sydd wedi bod yn gyfnod mor anodd i gynifer, byddwn hefyd yn edrych yn ystod y sesiwn hon i weld pa gyfleoedd sydd ar gael i fusnesau bach dyfu.
Bydd Rob Basini yn rhoi trosolwg o realiti bywyd busnes i fusnesau bach yng Nghymru, a bydd yn cyffwrdd â rhai dangosyddion allweddol, gan gynnwys y rôl y mae angen i lywodraethau ei chwarae, pwysigrwydd cymorth busnes, Addysg Uwch ac Addysg Bellach wrth ddatblygu sgiliau a gweithlu galluog, ac elw wrth ganiatáu i fusnesau barhau â’u teithiau tuag at sero net.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Postgraduate Teaching Centre, Cardiff Business School, Colum Drive, Cardiff, United Kingdom
