The team of business advisers working for New Anglia Growth Hub have become the very This month, New Anglia Growth Hub, which is managed by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), is celebrating team success! Each of the individuals who comprise the team tasked with providing enterprise […]
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A trip to Leapfrog Mountain
Leapfrog Mountain is the brainchild of Jackie Jenks. Over the years this business woman has accumulated a broad range of experience in enterprise support and mentor training. Now, she’s working with a pool of hand-picked specialist trainers located across the UK to offer a range of valuable mentoring and training services as an accredited IOEE […]
Dance studio owner knows the steps to success
Katie Geddes is a trained dancer who, in 2009, combined her professional skills with an entrepreneurial spirit and set up The Dance Studio Leeds (DSL). Classing the business as ‘beyond start-up but still in growth phase’, Katie went along to Meet a Mentor late last year. She chatted to us about the outcome and told […]
Get the Idea goes live
This month, Get the Idea, the learning programme the IOEE has developed in collaboration with global hair stylists TONI&GUY, is going live. Pilots have taken place at a number of educational institutions and we’ve been delighted to hear what learners and tutors think! For some months now, the IOEE has been working with TONI&GUY to […]
Spark the Change – Apprenticemakers hosts panel of small businesses
SFEDI-led not for profit, Apprenticemakers, which supports small businesses interested in apprenticeships, is hosting a panel discussion at the Spark the Change conference at The Brewery in London on July 5th. The panel will be made up of small businesses that have employed apprentices and have created real change in their business and the wider community. Spark […]
IOEE at Venturefest West Midlands
Late last month, a few key members of the IOEE team attended Venturefest West Midlands, a great day-long event that allows entrepreneurs, investors, innovators and enterprise agencies to connect with one another in new and rewarding ways. Held at Birmingham’s NEC, Venturefest is a unique gathering that welcomes enterprising people from across all sectors. It […]
MMU hosts free Best Practice Workshop
SFEDI AND THE INSTITUTE OF ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURS (IOEE) PROMOTE NATIONAL ENTERPRISE STANDARDS MMU HOSTS FREE BEST PRACTICE WORKSHOP FURTHER EVENTS TAKING PLACE AT UK UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH CENTRES Working in collaboration with Enterprise Educators UK, SFEDI and the IOEE have organised a nationwide programme of events to explore and promote best practice in the […]
The EU: will we stay or will we go?
Tomorrow the UK will go to referendum on a question that could dramatically alter the country’s economic and trade landscape. Should Britain remain a member of the European Union (EU) or leave to face the future independently? In the run up to the vote on Thursday 23 June, we emailed our members to find out […]
SFEDI: 20 years at the Heart of Enterprise
We’re extremely proud to announce that this month SFEDI (the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative) marks its twentieth year championing the enterprise learning and skills agenda on behalf of small businesses. To celebrate this landmark anniversary, in addition to holding our annual Celebrating Enterprise 2016 Awards in the House of Lords, we will also be […]
IOEE Enterprise Academy with Enterprising Ideas
Simply Do Ideas is a trailblazing new online platform which provides young people who have enterprising ideas with the tools they need to shape them into viable business plans. In the past month, the organisation has achieved IOEE Enterprise Academy status. We caught up with Chief Executive Officer Lee Sharma, who told us more about […]