Posts Tagged ‘Business support’
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Connect with a successful entrepreneur and get help for your business
Thursday 2 May 2013Here is another guest blog, this time from Sue Hayes, Managing Director at Barclays Business who tells us more about Connector! Sue Hayes, Managing Director at Barclays Business gives you and your clients the opportunity to meet Farida Gibbs, the multi award-winning CEO of Gibbs S3, Europe's fastest growing technology staffing ...[more] -
Surprise, surprise clients still prefer face to face support!
Friday 4 January 2013The Business Link helpline was established to support those clients who were not able to access the www.businesslink.gov.uk website or who were not able to find what they were looking for on there. With later decisions to migrate all Government web support through www.gov.uk, quite why BIS commissioned (or continued with) a study ...[more] -
EDBS share a very enterprising year
Monday 26 November 2012With 2012 almost finished, East Durham Business Service (EDBS) has been in touch with National Enterprise Network, to tell us how about some of their most enterprising start-up businesses of 2012. Rebecca Wilson, 19, set up her very own Dog Grooming business, Dog Grooming by Rebecca, in February this year after facing ...[more] -
So we’ve seen another Global Entrepreneurship Week come and go, how was it for you?
Tuesday 20 November 2012Well for me it was good to see that it was as busy, if not busier than ever for our members – those organisations helping people all day every day of the year to start up and run businesses which survive and thrive. I had the pleasure to be at the ...[more] -
Business Link – another change but is it for the better?
Thursday 24 November 2011Following on from our earlier blog about the closure of the network of regional Business Links by the end of this week (Friday 25 November), Richard Dearden, Chief Executive of National Enterprise Network member NBV, offers his view on the closure based on his long history working with pre start ...[more] -
Business Link – what next?
Wednesday 23 November 2011The current network of regional Business Links will be closed down fully by the end of this week (Friday 25 November) and replaced by an enhanced online platform with navigation support from a call centre. As the leader of an enterprise support organisation that has had a relationship with Business ...[more] -
National Enterprise Network gets mentoring!
Thursday 17 November 2011In this dedicated blog, National Enterprise Network Chief Executive Dawn Whiteley offers her thoughts on mentoring following the launch of the new government initiative Get Mentoring on Wednesday 16th November 2011. Yesterday saw the launch of Get Mentoring, a new initiative to get a further 10,000 mentors recruited, trained and deployed ...[more] -
My Parting Shot – by George Derbyshire
Wednesday 4 May 2011By George Derbyshire, retiring Chief Executive of NFEA - the national enterprise network Until recently there was a tradition that retiring British ambassadors sent the Foreign Office a valedictory dispatch, a parting shot, a chance to get a few things off their chests about their hosts, their employers in the FO ...[more] -
NFEA says: Don’t cut face to face advice
Wednesday 4 May 2011NFEA's departing CEO has said in a recent Telegraph article that the end of Business Link funding in November risks failing start-ups. In his last week in post at the end of April 2011, George Derbyshire was interviewed by the Telegraph's enterprise editor Richard Tyler, in which he reiterated that the ...[more] -
NFEA London member launches new start up scheme
Thursday 28 April 2011NFEA London member and national disability charity Livability has launched a brand new service, the Livability Enterprise Agency, to help disabled and disadvantaged people set up their own businesses. The service will provide one-off workshops to help people start thinking about self employment as well as longer courses covering business planning, ...[more]