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The Oxfordshire Guardian article – Fallowfields Hotel is calling for a cut in VAT rate to 5% for hospitality businesses

July 5, 2012

Well, I hear you saying, he would wouldn’t he? The point is we know people are still eating out but spending less. The demand is there, so lower VAT for hospitality, ensure that all hospitality businesses implement the reduction by reducing their prices. The natural laws of competition will help in this regard. The experience [...]

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Short video clips of the Fallowfields grounds

October 7, 2011

  These lovely short clip videos have been created by Chris Smith of the Oxford Media Factory, please check out his details at the end of this post.  1 Quail Corner- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSFe9_akCdk These little birds provide eggs and of course meat for the table. They need to be caged, as, they are incredible escapologists and, to [...]

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The Govenment’s Tourism Strategy is about as useful as a wet blanket!

April 22, 2011

Picture this – the UK’s Tourism industry is this country’s 3rd largest export earner; it comprises over 200,000 business in the UK; it provides over 4% of this country’s jobs, and, spends about £90 billion into the UK economy. Then, last year, the PM himself, pledged to make our visitor economy one of the top 5 in the [...]

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Are we being taken for fuels?

March 5, 2011

From my farm, orchards and kitchen garden, we produce a fair bit for our hotel restaurant, however, every day we have six or seven deliveries from suppliers, bringing us the essentials to run our business. These delivery vans can do no more than 10/15 miles to the gallon. It is frightening to think of the enormous fuel [...]

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February News in Hospitality and Tourism

February 25, 2011

Vat Rate – Travelodge chief executive has called for the Goverment to reduce the rate of VAT for the hospitality business to 5%. there has been a provision in EU law since 1975 which would enable this. The argument is our hotels are just too expensive. The average rate of VAT for hotels in Spain, [...]

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News from around the hospitality sector.

December 10, 2010

Congratulations – The Cornish Cheese Company has taken the crown and become World Champion at this year’s British Cheese Awards In London, there has been a rush of bookings in April around the date of the Royal Wedding – wish they were getting married in Kingston Bagpuize church! Customers are beginning to return to the [...]

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The World’s most admired countries.

November 28, 2010

The UK has maintained its fourth place in a league table of the world’s most admired countries. We are ranked behind the USA, Germany and France in the annual survey by NBI. Last year France was second and Germany third so they have swapped places this year. There are a number of other categories surveyed [...]

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Keeping Trade Local

November 27, 2010

Everybody appears to be “talking the talk” about keeping trade local. But are we really putting our money where our mouths are? Surely we all know that the engine of our economy, the small local shops, are still struggling in 2009? Over 12,000 of them closed. Every week, nearly 40 pubs closed last year. In the [...]

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Ahhh, daylight, I think I now understand QE!

November 17, 2010

My last post, nearly a month ago was about the economy. Since then, I have been busy finalising my budgets for the remainder of this year and for the next financial year. Then I decided to approach my beloved bankers with a financial project. A month of brain torturing activity, as I don’t really “do” [...]

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How on earth am I to sensibly budget for next year?

October 27, 2010

Share |   Here we are, just coming out of one of the worst periods in recent business history…and I am beginning to look forward to the future rather than continually watching my tail. In the seventeen years of being in business here at Fallowfields, I have never had as much difficulty in getting my head around my businesses’ budget [...]

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