Northwest Region Awards
EN Magazine North West Entrepreneur Awards 2010 – EN Magazine’s North West Entrepreneur of the Year Awards scheme, now in its ninth year, exists to honour the achievements of the region’s most tenacious and successful entrepreneurs – and to provide encouragement and a standard against which they can measure themselves to those who Read more…
Enterprise UK is running a series of ‘Manifesto Camps’ exploring the biggest issues for entrepreneurs in the UK and how these problems could be solved; with ideas feeding into the Enterprise Manifesto.This week’s session looked at the future of entrepreneurship, including the best ways to encourage social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Setting the scene for Read more…
Social Enterprise day was celebrated in Sunderland’s National Glass Centre today with Mutual Inspiration’s Social Enterprise, Collaboration and Sustainability Conference.
Around 50 delegates from the North East social enterprise arena descended on the fabulous venue to discuss such topics as:
-The recession, social enterprise opportunity or challenge?
-Finance and franchising social enterprises
-Opportunities for social enterprise in the emerging Read more…
Google has an answer for everything. Its Google trends search allows you to see a graph of how many people have search for something over the past six years. A search for ‘Make Your Mark’ shows quite familiar and daunting spikes in searches during mid-November.
Anyway, below is the graph of searches in the UK for Read more…
A look at why businesses run by women access less private equity and venture capital than those run by men.
Is the recession demarcating class divides in ‘Middle Britain’? On the one hand you have recession-proof Guardian readers lauding the miracle of frugality that the recession is bringing – cycling and recycling is King and they rejoice that the world has seen its senses and buys organic. On the other, we have the ultimate harbingers Read more…
Nominations for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2010 have now opened. Lord Mandelson suggests that ‘recipients of The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) are outstanding individuals who are inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs and giving them the skills and attitudes they need to succeed’ and that ‘they hold the key to unlocking Britain’s entrepreneurial talents Read more…
I’ve recently come across a neat little funding pot managed by St Katharine & Shadwell Trust (SKST) for social and community enterprises in the city of London, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets.
If you’re running a venture or thinking of starting one up that has a social or ethical purpose you can apply for a Read more…
Leaving Lowestoft at 5.30am, I was most anxious to ensure that my early start was going to be worth it. Upon arrival at The Royal Albert Hall, I knew I was not going to be disappointed. The organisation was spot on with 2000 delegates arriving, and a sense that all attending were impressed by the Read more…
The Young Foundation in partnership with education foundation Edge is offering up to £100,000 of investment for burgeoning organisations who work with young people. The Learning Launchpad fund will provide pots of cash for those who work with disadvantaged communities and offer alternatives to traditionalist education. Check out the website for more info.
On Tuesday 24 February we held the second in our series of webchats focusing on money saving and finance. We spoke to John Davies, Marketing Director of Barclays Local Business who gave us his top tips:
Not all banks have stopped lending!
John Davies: Part of the reason why there is less supply of lending is because Read more…
Today I read an article that advised me that I should regularly monitor my competition to see what they are up to, to work out their sales strategy and showing me a few ‘back door’ ways to keep tabs on what my competitors are doing online.
I put down the article and said to myself “Absolute Read more…
On Tuesday 10 February we held the first in a series of webchats focusing on money saving. We spoke to Alan Young, Home Business Expert and Clive Lewis, from the ICAEW (Institute of Charted Accountants in England and Wales) who gave us their top tips:
1: It’s good to talk
Alan Young “Word of mouth is 100% Read more…
Get live advice from Alan Young, Enterprise Nation and Clive Lewis, ICAEW ..check it out
As you know we do like a bit of web magic around here, so it is with glee that we begin the first of our special Access to Finance web-chats. Today is all about the Rise of the Frugal-preneur and the lovely people from cmypitch (blog roll friends) will also be hosting the chat. Get Read more…
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