Takahashi McGil is run by husband-and-wife team Mark McGilvray and Kaori Takahashi. The duo met at the Wimbledon School of Art, and now make hand-chiselled furniture and homewares.
“Much of what we buy is mass-produced,” says Judith Harris, who chose the duo to join Toast’s New Makers initiative. “Because of this, we are turning more to the handmade, objects we can connect with on a more human level.”
Continue reading...Data shows that people of colour are worse off than white counterparts and black households face the biggest deficit
Selina Flavius is one of a growing number of women in Britain who are talking about money – but as a black woman she faces two challenges. “We experience gender equality and the gender pay gap, which is more spoken about,” she says. “But there’s also the ethnicity pay gap.”
The 38-year-old founded the website Black Girl Finance last year to help others like her. “Some of it was societal and some of it was personal. I wanted to create a safe space where we could focus on our finances,” she says.
Continue reading...Opening a shared account when you’re renting can take away the stress of splitting the monthly outgoings. ‘Providing all parties have good credit history, a joint account for paying bills is the easiest way to neatly manage finances in a rented property,’ says Mustard estate agents, which covers Milton Keynes, Towcester and beyond. But there […]
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Code of practice also set up to aid landlord negotiations amid lockdown fallout
A temporary ban on the eviction of high street businesses for non-payment of rent has been extended by the government until the autumn.
The moratorium on evictions was extended on Friday from 30 June to the end of September. The government also published a code of practice to marshal increasingly tense negotiations between landlords and tenants as both sides grapple with the extreme financial pressure created by the coronavirus shutdown.
Continue reading...From ultra-modern with an indoor Jacuzzi, to a two-bedroom country cottage an eye test’s drive from Barnard Castle
Continue reading...Although most properties in the UK are not at risk of flooding, millions are, even in areas that are not immediately waterside. When parts of the country are devastated by floods and the news is dominated by pictures of unfortunate homeowners mopping up their basements, the natural human reaction is to think, ‘That could have […]
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