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 […]
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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 […]
Free Webinars for Small Businesses during National Apprenticeship Week
If you run a small business and have ever thought about taking on an apprentice, why not sign up for one of the free webinars run by Apprenticemakers during National Apprenticeship Week #NAW2016. Apprenticemakers is the national support hub for business interested in recruiting apprentices. It provides resources and an online community to help employers […]
SFEDI aims to support Apprenticemakers uptake with it’s new Champion Training
This month, SFEDI run activity, Apprenticemakers, has been fine tuning its new Apprenticeships Champion Training, which was piloted with two cohorts of business support professionals in December. Certificated by the IOEE, the one day course is designed to support people that have an active role in promoting the benefits of apprenticeships to small and medium […]
“We’re hugely committed to the SFEDI Directory, we’re early adopters, we’ve engaged with it and we’re committed to letting others know about it.”
Robert Turnbull works as an adviser for New Anglia Growth Hub, run by the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, and is one of 39 Growth Hubs situated across England. Offering business support and advice to small and medium sized businesses in Norfolk and Suffolk, his was the very first team of Growth Hub Advisers to be […]
IOEE joins London South Bank University board
Sarah Trouten, IOEE Chief Executive, has been invited to become an inaugural member of London South Bank University Business School’s advisory board. This is an exciting time for the Business School, which is currently working towards an ambitious vision to put entrepreneurial education at the very core of its students’ experience. Of course, this is […]