One of the Lake District’s most popular confectionary shops is growing rapidly and expanding its offering following enterprise mentoring support. The Chocolate Cottage, based on Stock Lane in Grasmere, was launched by husband and wife team Richard and Angela Barker. The couple spotted an opportunity for a local confectionary shop specialising in hand-made chocolates and […]
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IOEE presents its 3 point vision for Enterprise Skills
With the election on the horizon the IOEE wants to ensure that enterprise skills are firmly on the agenda to ensure small businesses gain access to the skills and support they need to survive and grow. With this in mind we’d like to present our three recommendations for the future of enterprise skills which we […]
Minister Jo Swinson Joins Meet A Mentor in Glasgow
Business Minister Jo Swinson joined female entrepreneurs today, as they pitched their businesses to established entrepreneurs in the search for a mentor. The ‘Meet a Mentor’ event in Glasgow is part the series around the UK funded by the Government Equalities Office and run by the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE). The events connect […]
Gallery Entrepreneur Explores Mentoring
Dorothy Nkemdirim has always wanted to be a professional artist. Leaving a successful career in human resources behind her, she has embarked on a new phase of her life, taking photographs and painting to create art, using natural landscapes as inspiration. Although Dorothy attended a Meet a Mentor event in the hope of meeting a […]
‘Mentoring started off as a bit of a hobby but now it’s becoming something more structured’
To describe Doug Gleave’s professional history as eclectic is an understatement. He’s been an engineer, a community worker, a lecturer, a recording engineer, a studio manager, an environmentalist and a social housing community consultant, amongst other diverse pursuits. However, mentoring has been the common thread to run through Doug’s colourful career: “I’ve been mentoring for […]
Karen Gallagher shares 25 years business experience at Meet A Mentor
London-based Karen Gallagher has a varied and interesting business background. Starting her first business 25 years ago, a structured finance asset management boutique. Having spent over 25 years in senior posts running and streamlining various businesses, the serial entrepreneur has decided to turn her hand and her experience to mentoring and coaching. She attended her […]
Why it’s good to talk
A project to offer farmers expert support as they develop their businesses is developing a unique way of offering mentoring to farmers. The Get Mentoring in Farming programme is run by the SFEDI Group and supported by the Lloyds Banking Group, LANTRA, BBA, The Farming Community Network, Waitrose and the National Federation of Young Farmers’ […]
Hiring is top of the agenda for female entrepreneurs in 2015
New research on behalf of the Business is GREAT Britain campaign has highlighted that the top goal of UK business women for 2015 is to hire more employees – and with nearly a million women-led SMEs in the country this could lead to almost 140,000 new jobs being created next year. Over 1,000 female business […]
Government launches the Business Growth Service
Last year, businesses told the government that it was hard to find the right support to unlock their growth potential, and that finding finance can be difficult. To address this the government has brought the business support offer together on the GREAT Business website. The site, which originally launched in November 2013, provides advice and information for […]
“There is always more to learn and someone to learn from” – Nike Jonah shares her entrepreneurial journey
Nike Jonah, who runs a small, specialist consultancy for clients operating in the arts and cultural sector, attended a Meet a Mentor event in London as a mentee. By almost anyone’s standards, Nike Jonah’s career has followed an exciting trajectory. Creative and ambitious, she began by studying fashion design, before adding business and financial marketing […]