When it comes to start-ups, limited companies and freelance working, there’s been an undisputed boom in the UK over the past two years.

It’s hard to pin down a figure for 2017, but we do know that – according to the Centre for Entrepreneurs (a UK-based think tank) – around 660,000 companies were founded in the UK during 2016. The year before that saw 608,000 new companies pop up.

That’s a lot of new companies… and we’ve not even touched on the additional number of freelance businesses springing up all around the country. We’re living in a ‘golden age’ of innovation; with new ideas being put into practice everyday, and brilliant minds being able to execute on ideas more easily than ever before.

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