As a partner of the UnLtd led apprenticeship trailblazer, SFEDI are pleased to announce that the Department for Innovation, Business and Skills has approved the apprenticeship standard for entrepreneurs. For today’s youngsters, apprenticeships are big news. Presenting the opportunity to learn how to be anything from a railway signal engineer to a retail manager, a […]
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National Living Wage
Thank you for participating in the IOEE survey. The results will be published in next month’s Mentoring and Enterprise Monthly newsletter.
National Living Wage
Thank you for participating in the IOEE survey. The results will be published in next month’s Mentoring and Enterprise Monthly newsletter.
National Living Wage
Thank you for participating in the IOEE survey. The results will be published in next month’s Mentoring and Enterprise Monthly newsletter.
How can we support a growing community of self-employed people?
Julie Deane OBE, founder of the Cambridge Satchel Company, has put forward a series of recommendations on how the government can better support self-employed people in an independent review commissioned in July 2015 and published last month. Since 2010, self-employment has accounted for over 25% of the growth in overall employment. The Office for National […]
How will the National Living Wage affect businesses?
In just a few weeks, on the 1st April, the National Living Wage will come into force. For employees aged 25 or older it will mean a rise in their minimum rate of pay from £6.70 to £7.20 an hour. Here at the IOEE, we’ve taken a look at what the increase may mean for […]
The Entrepreneurial Mindset: A valuable tool for life
As the way we work and earn changes and develops into something fresh and unfamiliar, savvy educators are coming to realise that the entrepreneurial mindset is fast-becoming an ever more valuable commodity. Across the UK’s employment landscape, times are changing. In fact, they’ve already changed. The days when an employee joined a firm aged 18 […]
Spotlight on…Nigel Heald and Matt Clayton
The IOEE’s member base is incredibly diverse, with people from all walks of life signed-up to enjoy the privilege, services and benefits associated with it. To let you know just how broad a spectrum of people we work with and what membership represents to them as individuals, we’ve created Spotlight on… which, every month, introduces […]
“Being a mentee isn’t just about thinking ‘right, what can they do for me?’ It’s also about recognising ways you can be mutually beneficial to one another.”
Jennifer Williams-Baffoe, as well as having attended two Meet a Mentor events, also has two businesses, which are connected to one another. The first is Willbaforce, a business development consultancy for the creative industries, which the entrepreneur set up in 2005. She explains her business’s remit: “At Willbaforce, we work with small and micro businesses […]
“I love mentoring. I find it hugely rewarding and will continue to do it for as long as I can.”
Pam Calvert established Communications Management, a reputation and communications strategy company serving the education and skills sector, in 1987. However, in recent years she’s begun to mentor small business owners. We caught up with both Pam and Joe Cripps, one of the people who has benefited from her mentoring. Pam Calvert originally trained to be […]