Posts Tagged ‘enterprise 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] -
Members HBV Enterprise makes page 3!
Tuesday 19 February 2013Of Hackney today! To view the article, please click HERE [caption id="attachment_4507" align="alignright" width="300"] David from HBV advising a local client[/caption] [more] -
Pension Reform – Women, low earners and self-employed to benefit under new “Single Tier” pension arrangements
Monday 21 January 2013I know that National Enterprise Network members will join me in welcoming the Coalition Government’s plans to simplify the state pension system with the creation of the "Single Tier" pension, which will for the first time ensure the availability of a pension for the country’s 4.2 million self-employed. The reforms create ...[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] -
North East BIC Wins National Incubation Award
Thursday 22 November 2012We're absolutely delighted to see that National Enterprise Network Chairman Paul McEldon's North East BIC have been awarded Business Incubation Champion in the UK by UKBI. Read their press release here! Well done to all concerned and keep up the good work! [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] -
National Enterprise Network supports ‘Get Britain Trading 2012’ launch event alongside Business Minister Mark Prisk
Monday 27 February 2012Westminster event to tap small business confidence revealed by Forum of Private Business survey as part of Get Britain Trading, an initiative supported by National Enterprise Network. The Forum of Private Business is today welcoming the Business Minister, Mark Prisk MP, to an event in Westminster celebrating the role of small ...[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]