Student Story: Small Business
Name: Christine McInnes     Course: Start Your Own Small Business Institution: City Lit Here, Christine McInnes tells us about her Start Your Own Small Business course experience. I needed help with my gilding small business and felt that I would benefit from professional guidance. I had started my own small business with no support from anyone and I had no template or notion of what business was. I just knew I wanted to work for myself – I was skilled and I wanted to make a living doing what I loved. I also had no idea if I was...

Kitchen Confidence
Reignite your love affair with home cooking this year… From cheery Anthony Worrall Thompson to sultry Nigella Lawson, celebrity cooks are helping create a renaissance in home cooking. Interestingly, neither Anthony  nor Nigella trained as chefs, creating  their careers from a simple passion for good food. Our relationship with food is changing. There has been a slow shift away from ready-meal mania: between 1998 and 2002 the demand for ready meals rose by 29 per cent across Europe and 44 per cent in the UK alone. We now consider the amount of packaging...