Like Kitty, we enjoy a wash and brush up now and then. Our website www.insightassociates.co.uk has had a makeover and is packed with a number of extra features designed to help small business owners ride out the tough times. There is now a Business Health Check test, helping you to judge whether you are effectively addressing vital areas of financial management among a host of really practical new features.

The website has finance tips, guides, events, calendars and breaking news, and analysis on every topic affecting business management, including Managing Director Garry Mumford’s popular ‘Insight blog’.

We hope you enjoy the website’s new look and that our help and information benefits your business – let us know what else you’d like to see. There are clearly tough times ahead and David Cameron makes it plain that we are going to be buffeted by further financial storms in the upcoming Budget. We hope our new website will provide business owners with shelter from the rain. As ever, Garry is also available to discuss ways of energising, stabilising and even rescuing your business, free and with absolutely no obligation. Kitty knows all about staying dry.

Tuesday 15th June sees the new Harlow Business Exhibition held at Harlow Greyhound Stadium. Over 50 exhibitors and 500 guests are expected on the day and it promises to be an excellent opportunity to meet and mingle with business owners, suppliers and exhibitors from the local area and beyond.

Admission is free but you will need to register first – you’ll also automatically be entered into a free draw with some excellent corporate goodies as prizes. The relaxing venue is easy to access from Harlow Town Centre and has plenty of free parking.

We are profound believers in the importance of networking and staying visible at local business events so we are delighted to report that Kitty has overcome her natural aversion to dogs and we will be exhibiting at the event on stands 20 and 21. We hope to meet you for a chat. Unable to resist a competition, we will also be inviting visitors to our stand to guess how much money is in our ‘jar of gold’. The prize, for whoever is closest to the correct amount, is a Champagne balloon flight.

Come fly with Insight Associates! Or at least visit Harlow next Tuesday. We hope to see you there.