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Good Money Week, which runs from 24 to 30 October 2020, is ‘the campaign to raise awareness of sustainable, responsible and ethical finance’ in the UK.

The back-and-forth between the Houses of Parliament on the Agriculture Bill continues. On Tuesday 20^th October the Lords voted to reinsert powers into the Bill which were removed in the last Commons vote.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have confirmed that tax relief can be claimed for homeworking expenses incurred by employees for the whole of the 2020/21 tax year, regardless of the period they were required to work from home.

In the third of our series of weekly Brexit Blogs, Chris Solt of Lovewell Blake says that Brexit will force a change in the make-up of all our shopping baskets, whether there is a deal or not.

On Saturday 10 October, Minette Batters, the President of the National Farmers' Union (NFU), published a piece in the Daily Mail that she professed she "never wanted to have to write", fearing the death of the British family farm.

The Fundraising Regulator has published updated guidance for charities on what they should be disclosing in their Trustees Report in connection with their fundraising activities.

Returns for those holding money in cash savings accounts took another fall a fortnight ago, when the government-backed savings provider slashed their interest rates.

In 2008, as part of the firm’s 150^th anniversary celebrations, Lovewell Blake launched the Lovewell Blake Community Fund with the aim of raising £150,000 in 5 years for good causes across the region. The firm’s partners and staff rose to the challenge, surpassing their initial target and to date have raised over £275,000.