Outsourcing certain business functions is a great way for small to medium-sized businesses to scale up. Many business owners believe that outsourcing is for large businesses and corporations that have hundreds of staff. However, there are many benefits for SMEs too. In particular, HR services require expert knowledge and doing it yourself can take up a lot of valuable time. Not to mention, it can be a huge waste of resources. Here are a few reasons small businesses should outsource HR services to third-party providers.
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There are many ways in which you can support your chosen charity, and most, if not all, will be very happy with any time or money that be spared and donated. Whether you choose to go it alone or whether you decide to get a team together or even get your work involved. Holding a sponsored event can be a great way of raising funds for your favourite causes.
At some point in their lives, almost everybody finds themselves confronted with a legal issue of some description – whether this is personal or in business. Dealing with it in the most effective way possible is obviously highly important. While it’s impossible to go through the individual courses of action that you can take, you can learn more general points in the following article.
Free Food: October 2020 and the start of a new challenge at Frugaldom. This autumn, I am attempting to create a forest food garden on the edge of our 'Legacy Woodland' tree planting project, which borders marshland and is flanked by a small river. The plan is to do this at zero cost so it provides us with free food in the future.
REMINDER: Today we are making raw apple cider vinegar. It's been quite some time since we picked our apples and the harvest, although not yet including much from the new orchard, was plentiful. Many apples were given to friends and relatives, many more were stewed for sauce, crumbles and pies and yet more were turned into jelly with a combination of foraged berries and blackcurrants. The remaining apples are stored in black bags outside, chilled by the good old Scottish, winter weather.
I wouldn't say I am living a particularly frugal lifestyle and to be perfectly honest, I wasn't even entirely sure how to start. However, after a couple of hours research and reading about other people's experiences, I realised that, for me, frugal living wouldn't just be beneficial but necessary.
Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be so single-minded and focussed on your goals that you actually achieve them all, one by one, consistently? Or do you go about things in a half-baked manner wondering where all your time has gone, forgetting half of what you should have done?
Frugal living in the countryside means no mains sewers, sometimes no mains water and certainly no ‘nipping to the shop’ to buy an individual item if you run out of it, so it is always handy to know how to make your own products, such as laundry cleaner.
This is a blog about my first ever adventure into the world of home brewing and craft beers. I'm not a beer drinker, as a rule, but this is different - it is customised to practically guarantee that I'd like it. I was not disappointed! Indeed, this would make a fantastic, extra special Father's Day gift for giving on 19th June 2016.
