Coronavirus has brought longer term challenges for businesses in lockdown as they struggle to formuate their own Covid-19 crisis exit plans.

In this week's Monday Interview by Scott Wright, Alastair Davis, chief executive of Social Investment Scotland (SIS), says he believes the extended period of reflection will also increase investors’ appetite to back companies with a genuine social purpose at heart.

Elsewhere, a hotelier says rural premises will not survive the crisis under the current Scottish Government hospitality grant system.

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In this week's Guy Stenhouse column in Business Voices, he asks: "Am I being unrealistic when I see grounds for optimism in the coronavirus crisis?"

In Mark Williamson's SME Focus, Luke and Daryll Morrow update on their Udrafter business: "We are a platform which connects employers with degree-relevant student talent through paid projects. We call ourselves the Home of Micro-Internships."

On Tuesday the CBI-PwC Financial Services Survey is due, while 888 Holdings finals are expectred on Wednesday.

Also on Wenesday, the Treasury Select Committee will sit for a hearing on the economic impact of coronavirus.

On Thursday the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor for March is due, aong with the the ONS: Coronavirus, the UK economy and society, faster indicators.

These are new experimental indicators on the UK economy and society, including information related to Covid-19.

Indicators are constructed from novel data sources and experimental methods.

Updates from PZ Cussons and Rentokil Initial are also expected.

On Friday there is the ONS: Coronavirus and self-employment in the UK.

This is an overview of self-employment across the UK, looking at the industrial, occupational, geographic and demographic characteristics of those who are self-employed.

The ONS: UK Government debt and deficit for December 2019 is also due on Friday, as is a trading update for Flutter Entertainment.

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