Mark Rowland

2 months ago | aatcomment.org.uk | Mark Rowland

Accountants and bookkeepers discuss the administrative burdens they would like to see HMRC scrap. The Government has scrapped plans that would have required businesses to report employee working hours to HMRC from April 2025/26. These plans were unpopular among businesses as they’d have created additional administrative, regulatory and financial pressures. Fortunately the Government has decided against them, in an attempt to ‘reduce red tape’.

Aug 29, 2024 | streamhatchet.com | Mark Rowland

Written by Mark Rowland Published on 29 Aug 2024 After nearly two months, 22 tournaments, and the awarding of $60M in prizes, the Esports World Cup (EWC) is over. Pro teams from around the world competed in MOBAs, Fighters, Shooters, Battle Royales, and RTS titles for the right to call themselves the world’s best gamers. The spectacle of the EWC would have been impossible without the financial backing of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman who has grown the Saudi gaming industry...

May 13, 2024 | sportengland.org | Mark Rowland

Nelson Mandela famously expressed the power of physical activity to keep his mind calm while imprisoned on Robben Island when he said: "Exercise is key not only to physical health but to peace of mind too."The expression 'peace of mind' is used here as another way to describe good mental health. It refers to what psychologists call 'the regulated state’ – a feeling of safety and connection between our body and mind when they're not hijacked by our ‘fight, flight or freeze’ response.

Feb 18, 2024 | allevents.in | Mark Rowland

Join me to hear the stories of the birth of modern theatre in the "Viper's nest of vagabonds and thieves" that was Elizabethan Bankside. About this EventModern theatre was born indirectly out of Henry VIII's split with Rome in 1534, but it was in Elizabethan London when its popularity really exploded. Fearing the "miracle" or "mystery" plays that had held sway under the Catholic church might give a voice to religious sedition, Elizabeth I banned all religious plays early in her reign.

Nov 14, 2023 | managers.org.uk | Mark Rowland

It was during a meeting in January 2019, not long after she’d been appointed as headteacher of Woodlands Primary School in Cheshire, that Dr Victoria Carr CMgr MCMI realised the extent of the challenge. After months of wrangling to get a view of the school's finances, she was finally given the full picture: the school was £500,000 in debt. “I excused myself from the meeting, went into the toilet, shut myself in a cubicle and put my head in my hands,” she says.