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Oxford Edge, a Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the University of Oxford launched by Christ Church and supported by Blenheim Chalcot, has closed its 2026 StEP educational accelerator: an eight-week programme run jointly with Oxford University Innovation that helps students turn early ideas into viable businesses.

Blenheim Chalcot portfolio company Salary Finance today announced that it has reached an agreement to be acquired by Stream, a leading global workplace finance platform. The combination will bring together two complementary businesses with a shared mission to improve the financial wellbeing of working people. Founded in 2015, Salary Finance has been backed by Blenheim Chalcot since inception.

Blenheim Chalcot today announces that Nordic Capital has agreed to acquire Liberis, the leading embedded finance platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Following completion of the transaction, Liberis will combine with Qred, one of Europe's leading digital SMB banks, to create a market-leading global platform for SMB financing. Liberis has been part of the Blenheim Chalcot portfolio for more than 15 years.

On 3 June 2026, Babyzone CEO George Looker gave oral evidence to the joint Work and Pensions and Education Committees as part of their inquiry, Realising Potential: Delivering the Child Poverty Strategy. George appeared on the first panel alongside representatives from Trussell, West of England Mayoral Combined Authority and EFL in the Community. Two legs to stand on George's core message to the Committee was clear: tackling child poverty requires two things working together.

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi capped off his record-breaking IPL 2026 campaign by winning the Orange Cap and Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards after finishing as the tournament’s leading run-scorer. At just 15 years and 65 days old, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest to win the IPL Orange Cap, overtaking Sai Sudharsan, who won the IPL Orange Cap at the age of 23 years and 237 days last year.

From their June 2026 cohorts onwards, every new UK learner studying a CIPD qualification with Avado will receive free access to Wellhub as part of their studies. That means over 400 UK gyms and fitness classes, plus premium wellbeing apps including Headspace, Calm and Strava — making Avado the first HR qualification provider in the UK to offer wellbeing support at this scale alongside an accredited learning programme.

Fospha's Deep Dive With Google Reveals Full-Funnel eCommerce Playbook Fospha has published a landmark report based on a structured study of 25 retail eCommerce brands across 28 market deployments in Q4 2025, conducted in partnership with Google. The findings are striking: brands that allocated 10-20% of their Google budget to Demand Gen saw 2x higher ROAS compared to those allocating just 0-5%, while adding two new Google channels delivered a 37% ROAS uplift.

They explore a critical question: what should brands understand before letting AI shape their marketing budgets? In a focused ten minute session, three themes emerged. First, most brands are not measuring the full impact of their marketing. Blind spots remain across key channels such as marketplaces and social commerce, where traditional click based measurement fails to capture the majority of performance. Second, trust in data remains a major barrier.

With a workforce of over 300 specialists, Agilisys has worked as a trusted digital partner with more than 120 local authorities across the country, and after almost three decades in the capital, has decided to move its main base to the repurposed Civic building in Wigan town centre.

Babyzone have launched their 2025 Strategy and Impact Report, outlining an ambitious plan to transform early years support at scale. The charity will expand from8 to 20 hubsacross the UK, doubling access to free, barrierless spaces for families. Each hub will act as aliving laboratory, generating data through the Parent Confidence Index, which already shows84% of parents use Babyzone techniques at home.