It s not been a good year to be running a pub and despite the route for the country to get out of lockdown - and hopefully not go back into it - being mapped out, there are fears many pubs could close permanently.
The same is true for community hubs, theatres and sporting organisations, hit hard by people being ordered to stay at home and their doors being closed.
But there is a ray of good news. Chancellor Rishi Sunak s announcement of a £150million Community Ownership Fund in last week s Budget was a largely unexpected one.
It means communities have been given a financial lifeline to protect their favourite local pub or sports ground from being sold for housing or going bust.
After two years in Brooklyn, his money struggles forced him to drop out of school and move back to his hometown, Houston, where he lived on his mom s couch.
He was halfway through his degree and hoped to pick up where he left off at a more affordable local college. But when his credits were rejected and he was informed he d have to start over as a freshman, he decided to change course. When I started reading and studying and seeing all the people that were really big world changers, it wasn t necessarily that they were all in college, he said. The biggest difference was they were in control of their finances, they knew how to budget, they knew how to invest, and most of them were owning businesses and owning companies.
Edmund Wood had no idea what kind of a business he wanted to create – he just knew that he wanted to leave his managerial role at a noodle factory and launch a start-up.
It was during a trip to Bordeaux, when he tried a vanilla infused rum, that he was inspired to make his own hazelnut creation.
Edmund says: My inspiration came from flavours I loved as a child such as Florentines, Snickers and Dairy Milk Whole Nut and more recent ones like a Kinder Bueno.
Noodles to nuts: Edmund ditched his job as a manager of a noodle factory to create his own hazelnut rum
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Kola Tytler is a UK-based doctor and founder of Dropout, a European consignment shop in Milan.
He is also one of the founders of Yeezy Mafia, a forum that offers information about Yeezy drops.
Tytler developed a formula that analyzes which pairs of sneakers to buy for resale purposes.
Kola Tytler might be one of the best-dressed medical professionals around.
As the founder and majority owner of Dropout, a Milan-based sneaker and streetwear consignment shop, Tytler is a major figure in the European sneaker and streetwear scene. Not to mention, he is one of the original team members of Yeezy Mafia, a web forum that offers exclusive information regarding upcoming Yeezy releases.
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This Black History Month, there s a heightened call to dismantle systemic racism.
Insider and the National Black Chamber of Commerce highlighted leaders advancing racial equity.
These leaders shared their influence on Black and brown communities and their future goals.
This Black History Month seems different from those of recent years.
There s an overwhelming outcry from the American public, specifically from Black people, people of color, and their allies, to combat systemic racism and enact equity.
In May, video footage of the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man, went viral, sparking an uproar. Business leaders denounced the killing and promised to do their part to effect change. Suddenly there was more attention put on the antiracist work of Black people and people of color, work that s been going on for decades.