Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

George Osborne was delivering his seventh Budget. Chancellor George Osborne surprised everyone by vowing to introduce a "national living wage" of £9 an hour by 2020 in the first Tory budget since 1996. This caught parliament by surprise. The Liv...

 New DWP postal addresses DWP is modernising how it receives and processes post by gradually transforming the department’s paper led system to a modern, digital solution. This transformation has resulted in changes to office postal addresses and...

George Osbourne is about to relax the hours of Sunday Trading. Osborne said: “Even two decades on from the introduction of the Sunday Trading Act, it is clear that there is still a growing appetite for shopping on a Sunday. There is some evidence tha...

Colchester Equality inaguaral meeting Income inequality adversely affects health, the economy, rates of crime, social mobility, education & trust. Greater income equality benefits everyone. Come to our launch meeting Thur...

Planning billions in welfare cuts George Osborne is planning to use his first Conservative budget to lift all but the very richest households out of inheritance tax. Meanwhile he is going to announce billions of pounds in welfare cuts. The Institute...

Iain Duncan Smith’s official parliamentary credit card was suspended after he ran up more than £1,000 in expenses debts. The Work and Pensions Secretary is among 19 MPs who have had their credit lines suspended since the start of the year because the...

A Career in Technical Theatre goes behind the scenes, to understand how a production is brought to life.

A Career in Technical Theatre is the second of our two new films.  Our second film ‘A Career in Technical Theatre’ also fared well. Toby Harris, Ed Cepaitis Starr Sawyer and Jess Hastings were the crew on this film. You can see both films in Wor...

ABC Film ‘A Career in Professional Sport’ has taken first place in the Colchester Institute - Colins Awards.   Harry Genge, Callum Olive, Brandon Hill, and Ned Woodcraft -Best Documentary More news on the team shor...

Colchester Charity, the April Centre ceased trading in late April this year. The April Centre had offices in Colchester and Clacton and over 80 tenants. Tenants that had been made homeless for a variety of reasons, had a deduction they were told take...