Home businesses wanted for 2008 award
The excellent home-business web site Enterprise Nation is now accepting entries for its 2008 home business award. The closing date is Friday the 15th of August 2008, and the winner will be announced on the 1st of September.
The free competition is easy to enter, requiring just 200 words under each of three headings on the entry form. Your [...]
Likely interruption of service 20-22 June 2008
STOP PRESS: We have now made the switchover. We are running this web site at a new hosting firm (called Media Temple). We hope you notice a general improvement in speed, but more importantly, experience no sudden drops in speed or loss of service.
We made the change because our previous arrangements were not good at [...]
Getting your hands on Olympic gold
With spending on London’s 2012 Olympic bid now projected to top £9 billion, what chance have small businesses of getting their hands on any of the loot?
Well, at least some. You may not be able to grab 10-digit sums, but you can at least bid for some of the smaller contracts on the www.competefor.com site.
The [...]
London radio station covers over-50 entrepreneurs
Older entrepreneurs were the topic of Westside Radio’s Friday morning business programme. Presenter Pooja talked to Annabel Rhodes of cosmetics start-up Rhodes to Heaven, and to Laurie South of PRIME. You can listen to the programme on The Big Dream blog.
New law defines unfair trading
Quietly coming into effect at the end of May, the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 summarises in one place most of the things you are not allowed to do when selling to consumers. The parallel Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008 does the same thing for businesses selling to other businesses (B2B).
The [...]
Business Advice Open Day - Reading
Date: Thursday 12 June 2008
Venue: Madejski Stadium, Junction 11, M4, RG2 0FL
Status: PRIME attended
The Open Day programme is the biggest government business support road show, designed to provide free information and support to businesses, through a series of exhibitions across the country.
It is organised by HM Revenue and Customs, who invite local organisations and representatives [...]
Working for Yourself in Walsall
Date: Thursday 19th June 2008, 11:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: The Blakenall Community Centre, Blakenall, Walsall, WS3 1LW
Status: PRIME Event
Free workshop for people over 50 running their own business or thinking about starting up. Help on working for yourself including, marketing, computing, planning and pensions.
Lunch provided.
To book your place on this workshop Free phone: 0800 783 1904
Email: martin.sarling@ace.org.uk
Starting a new business in Belfast
Date: Tuesday 17th June 2008
Time: FREE Exhibition with workshops 1.00pm to 5.30pm, Public presentation 5.30pm to 8.00pm
Venue: Grosvenor House, Glengall St, Belfast BT12 5AD
Status: PRIME event
Essential Enterprise Day is a free PRIME event for anyone over 50 who is thinking of starting a business or planning to be self-employed. There is an exhibition in [...]
Save on business books
PRIME has teamed up with publisher Kogan Page to get you a discount off any of the publisher’s books. Kogan Page specialises in business books, and have many relevant small business titles. To get the discount just order via this PRIME book shop link, which shows a selection.
At the moment the discount is running at [...]
Ann Davidson of My Village News
“Services are falling away thick and fast. There are fewer post offices, fewer bus services. Villagers were in danger of becoming isolated from one another.” This was the thought process that sparked Ann Davidson into creating My Village News, a local magazine which is attempting to bring her community back together.
After being made redundant [...]
Free book for before you start
If you are still thinking about whether to start in business or not, the Essential Business Guide has an 80-page workbook to help you think through the issues. You can download it as a PDF for free to read or print out. The company - which writes books and courses for small businesses, also has [...]
Work for PRIME in Doncaster
STOP PRESS: APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.
PRIME is hiring. We are looking for someone to get a new project going for us in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. You will be responsible for the delivery of PRIME’s programme in the Doncaster area. A self-starter with strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, you will organise and deliver pre-enterprise workshops, [...]
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