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SFEDI showcases its transformation of UK prison education at prestigious Entrecomp conference in Brussels
This month saw Ruth Lowbridge MBE, SFEDI Executive Chair, and Nic Preston, CEO SFEDI Awards, attend the DigComp and EntreComp EU Commission Practitioners and Stakeholders Event: ‘Inspiring Use and Building Community’. This prestigious event was held at the Crowne Plaza in Brussels, with the conference looking at the European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) and the […]
How intrapreneurship and the power of positivity changed company culture
Lisa Soderman is the Business Development Manager for the Dolphin Centre, a Darlington-based leisure centre that has taken a pioneering approach to intrapreneurship, and that has recently secured its status as an IOEE Enterprise Academy. Working with Lisa on her journey is SFEDI Group’s Executive Chair, Ruth Lowbridge MBE, and together they have developed One […]
IOEE Academy inspiring young people into employment in the heart of Bristol
CCBED is the Centre for Capacity Building & Enterprise Development; a Bristol-based social enterprise that focuses on helping to tackle unemployment and underemployment in people aged 19 and above in disadvantaged local communities. Originally a SFEDI Awards Centre, CCBED has recently gained its IOEE Enterprise Academy status. This month we met Aliu Bello, its founder […]
Enterprisingly Me
‘Enterprisingly Me’ is a monthly feature where you can follow my entrepreneurial adventures. Names have been changed to protect the innocent but everything you read really happened. I hope my story inspires you to take your first steps, or if you already have, then it lets you know you’re not on your own. Starting and […]
An enterprising outlook for IOEE Centre of Excellence academic
Entrepreneurship lecturer Dr Louise Chalkley of Anglia Ruskin University shares with us her thoughts on enterprise, education and the unexpected adventures life can present. Cambridge-based Dr Louise Chalkley has been an entrepreneurship lecturer at IOEE Centre of Excellence Anglia Ruskin University for four years. However, the 46-year-old’s route to academia has been varied and unconventional, […]
Blue Patch Business Awards 2017
Applications are now open for Blue Patch’s annual Business Awards, which is now in it’s second year. SME’s and fledgling businesses across the British Isles are urged to come forward and nominate themselves for one or more of the following business categories: New Business Award – if you have a new business (under 2 years […]
Spotlight On… Lee Sharma
Lee Sharma is the CEO of Simply Do Ideas; a unique and innovative online platform that provides a place for people with exciting enterprising ideas to take that spark of inspiration and turn it into a viable business plan. We first met Lee in May 2016, when Simply Do Ideas had just achieved IOEE Academy […]
Spotlight On… Sean O’Tuama
Sean O’Tuama is the CEO and founder of Firemole; a Cork-based company that has developed a safety gadget that warns people if their electrical devices, such as mobile phone chargers, are getting dangerously hot, by sounding an inbuilt alarm. In only a year, Sean has gone from ‘idea stage’ to viable business, even passing on […]
Rocketeer Enterprise brings Digital Learning to Education
Rocketeer Enterprise is an IOEE Enterprise Academy on a mission – to change the world, one entrepreneur at a time. Rocketeer specialises in understanding how to benefit from being in the midst of the current digital and technology revolution, through supporting educational organisations, start-up companies, and wannabe entrepreneurs to succeed in the field of enterprise. […]