Script

Question draft (not in order);

  • Who are you and what do you do?
  • How long have you been running your business?
  • Do you think being self employed is worth the hassle?
  • Do you think starting a business like yours in 2019 in financially viable?
  • How many staff do you have working with you?
  • Are most of your clientele local or abroad?
  • Do you think Brexit will have any effect on businesses like yours?
  • What have been the most damaging laws introduced that have made running a business like yours more difficult?
  • Why do you think the statistics don’t reflect what you are experiencing?
  • What is your opinion on the raise of the national minimum wage?
  • Chancellor George Osborne has confirmed that there will be help for small businesses, meaning a company will be able to employ four people full time on the new National Living Wage and pay no national insurance. Do you think this is enough?
  • Opinion on auto enrolment of pensions

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Voice over

Intro : As the daughter of a small business owner I constantly heard about the different struggles that self employed people were facing every day in the fight to keep their businesses afloat so I decided to visit my father and his colleagues at their workshop to see how they felt about these issues and the future of businesses like theirs.

Outro : It seems that none of the people I interviewed have experienced any problems at the hands of Brexit yet, however, there is clear uncertainty about the future and what will happen once Brexit is passed. But one thing I’ve seen from this experience is that small businesses, just like the ones I visited, will continue to thrive and fight to overcome any hurdles no matter what is thrown their way.

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Amendments

One of the most recent issues is in relation to compulsory pension schemes. On April 6th 2019 the minimum amount that employers and employees had to pay into a compulsory pension scheme was raised. According to Nathan Long, senior pension analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, this raise is so quote “Workers can now look forward to retirement with more confidence,”. End quote. I asked my interviewees about their feelings towards this raise.
Another big concern for all UK businesses is Brexit due to possible changes to imports and customs. Because of this I decided to see if and how Brexit is affecting small businesses
This is in response to screening feedback which asked me to add in report like voiceovers to add context to things like Brexit and the pension raise.