Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneurs’
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Shell LiveWIRE would like our help!
Thursday 7 March 2013Win a £100 Amazon voucher by entering their short survey. With this year's Budget on the horizon, Shell LiveWIRE like to hear your views, and those of your clients on the challenges of being an entrepreneur today, and what you would like to see in this year's Budget. They are also ...[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] -
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] -
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] -
It’s how you tell ‘em…
Tuesday 15 March 2011Expect to see some positive media coverage shortly….about positive media coverage. According to BIS, new research shows that media coverage of entrepreneurs: “is helping more people to consider a career as their own boss” And: “one in five non-entrepreneurs are being motivated to start their own business having watched programmes such as Dragons Den, ...[more] -
Shining a light on Home Enterprise
Friday 3 July 2009Home based businesses are just part-time pin money jobs...Home based businesses are largely e-Bay traders and others dependent on e-commerce...And anyway, they are an insignificant part of the whole small business scene. Wrong, wrong, wrong! According to a study by the University of Strathclyde, the majority of home based businesses have other ...[more] -
NES Entrepreneur of the Year announced
Monday 29 June 2009Norman Straight, owner of Straight Clean window cleaning in Norwich, was named NES Entrepreneur of the Year at a dedicated award ceremony in Birmingham last week. Norman founded Straight Clean in January 2008 as a means to move away from being unemployed, to a job with the flexibility to also allow ...[more] -
A gaggle of geese, a school of dolphins……a list of entrepreneurs?
Tuesday 6 January 2009I can't find a collective term for entrepreneurs, so I'm proposing that when more than three of them are together, we call them a list, a list of entrepreneurs. Why? Many of you will remember Rachel Bridge, small business editor of the Sunday Times, from when she came to speak to ...[more]