Spear's Wealth Management Survey

Spear's Submits Proposal to Planning Ministry to Strengthen Heritage Protection

From William Cash

Advancing our 'Save Our Historic Landscape Campaign', Spear's has submitted a letter to the Planning Ministry, on the invitation of planning minister Greg Clark, to call for greater heritage protection under the new National Planning Policy Framework. Spear's editor-in-chief, William Cash, explains why heritage protection is the only way to keep Britain Great.

1 Per Cent Campaign: London Library

Spear's readers can help emerging writers to enjoy access to the London library, developing his or her work and benefiting from the connections that London Library membership brings.

1 Per Cent Campaign: Big Issue Foundation

Wealth-management houses, private banks and law firms can give vendors — those who have the self-motivation to drag themselves out of poverty and hardship but lack the opportunities — the opening they need to rebuild lives broken by personal crises. And, in the process, they will contribute to the shattering of stereotypes surrounding homelessness and gain a deeper understanding of a social issue that urgently demands new and creative solutions.

1 Per Cent Campaign: Impetus

Set up by Stephen Dawson and Nat Sloane in 2002, venture philanthropy organisation Impetus is driven by a clear vision: to break the self-reinforcing cycle of poverty responsible for so much social unrest in the UK. The entrepreneurial spirit and business acument of Spear's readers can be channelled into helping charities that help disadvantaged people out of lives of crime and poverty.

1 Per Cent Campaign: Durand Academy

Greg Martin, director of the Durand Academy and the Durand Education Trust, has transformed a cavernous Victorian building in Stockwell into a self-financing, high-performing primary school and is now opening a secondary school. Spear's readers can play a part in this remarkable project.

The Spear's 1 Per Cent Campaign

Today we launch our 1 Per Cent Campaign. We will be partnering with a number of charities and organisations who can offer our readers, the 1 Per Cent and those who work with them, imaginative and significant ways in which to help the less fortunate.

Why Prenups Should be Legally Binding

Divide and Conquer

Until pre-nups become binding, divorce settlements won’t get any simpler, says Caroline Garnham 

Christmas Cheer, Eurozone Blues and Government Ponzi Schemes

Season's Bleatings

Few of us ever get what we want at Christmas — least of all poor old Alessandro Tomé, who just wants to be left alone 

New York Needs an Annabel's Style Nightclub

Boite the Heck?

Sure, the Beatrice was good, clean, grungy fun, but let’s face it, New York is crying out for a proper, grown-up, Annabel’s-style nightclub, says Daisy Prince 

Spear's New Campaign: You Are the 1 Per Cent

If you are reading this, the chances are that you are either in the 1 Per Cent or you work or are associated with the 1 Per Cent