Enterprise Support
NNWN offers enterprise support to women in a number of ways:
By offering individual Information, Advice and Guidance sessions across North Northumberland.
By running training and support sessions on specific aspects of enterprise that women have requested, for example PR and marketing, book-keeping, website development Watch out for our next meeting which will introduce an online accredited learning opportunity in business development.
By signposting women to other business support agencies, and making sure that the business support agencies are all keeping in touch with each other.
Enterprise Support Programme
WOULD YOU LIKE SUPPORT IN STARTING UP OR DEVELOPING YOUR EXISTING BUSINESS IN LEARNING NEW OR ENHANCE YOUR SKILLS?
DO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS IDEA OR HAVE YOU STARTED YOUR BUSINESS?
NNWN would like to offer YOU the opportunity to discuss YOUR ideas with groups of WOMEN in similar situation as YOURSELF
We are planning a series of workshops and would like to support women into enterprise by giving you the opportunity to have your say in developing and planning your business, you may have a business idea and just need some direction as to where and how to develop it
BUSINESS PLANNING
Researching your business
How to develop a Business Plan
Funding
Operational Plan
MARKETING
Creating a simple website
Improving your website
Using your website as a Marketing Tool
Brands, logos etc
FINANCE
Cash flow—finance plan
Bookkeeping
Tax Returns & NI contributions
Self Assessment
FOR MORE INFO contact 01668 219879
Two web links for women
Servane Mouazan (Women in Enteprise Ambassador, Hightly Commended Social
Flying Start Programme for Women
Get specific help now…if you want to be working for your self – doing what you love to do – then this FREE programme is for you. (Flying Start is supported by The National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship is a government funded not-for-profit company working in Higher Education in the UK)
Are you…a student or a graduate (European citizens) of a UK university (of up to 5 years) from anywhere in the UK, planning to start a business based in England in the next 12 months, or already started a business (within the past 6 months)?
To be eligible you need to have:
A clear idea of what you will do, who will you do it for, who it will serve and who it will benefit.
Passion for what you do.
You don’t need to know anything about business or have studied business.
Join other women from across the UK and learn how to turn your passion into a sustainable and successful business. There is a new free 12 month long programme is for women who are current students or recent graduates from English Universities who plan to start a business based within the UK in the next 12 months.
The programme kicks off with a 3 day residential to be held at the Park Inn in York on 7, 8, 9th January 2008. More information about the programme is below.
Interested? Call Lorna Collins on 07850 682 833 for a chat or go to
http://www.flyingstart-ncge.com/newwomen/
Northumberland Women's Mentoring Partnership
Are you looking for a mentor to help you with your business or are you running a business and would like to offer someone some support as a Mentor? Would you like to join a mentoring support group, to further develop your business?
If yes to any of these questions…then please read on….
The importance of mentoring for women's entrepreneurship and regional economic development is increasingly being recognised. WIN hopes you will then be inspired to join the new initiative, which aims to encourage both male and female mentors to support women from a variety of backgrounds and stages of business development, from pre-start to growth, and there will be a variety of resources to help them do so.
Women into the Network (WIN) has recently completed a pilot scheme, where around 20 mentoring partnerhips have been establsihed. NNWN is keen to keep this going for new people and is talking with WIN and the project's initial funder (Northumberland Strategic Partnership) to see how we might be able to take things forward.
If you would like to know more or register an interest please contact NNWN initially and we will gte back to you once there is an update.
Other useful contacts:
Alnwick and District Businesswomen's Group - contact Andrea Perrett for more info via hala@nnwn.org
Alnwick and Berwick Business Advice Centres
If you have any questions please call Kate Sims Alnwick Centre Administrator on 01665 605706.
Women into the Network - a region-wide women's enterprise networking project Link here>>
North East Women's Enterprise Strategy
NNWN is represented on the steering group to oversee the implementation of the regions' Women's Enterprise Strategy.The stratgey will be launched at One North east on 13th November. We would be happy to pass on any comments you may have on the strategy (1) , its implementation plan (2) and the women's enterprise pilot (3).
