The future of maritime has been given a massive funding boost by the UK Government with an increase in training subsidies for cadets and ratings.
Funding for cadets boosted to £43 million pounds over next two years to help build the maritime sector.
Eligible seafarers will now get half of their training paid – providing a real investment in the future of maritime and securing future growth. Previously, the subsidy was 30% but increases to 50% for all new and existing tonnage tax groups and Support for Maritime Training (SMarT) funding. This now means that maritime companies can take advantage of an extra £13m of funding
Hull & East Yorkshire – Creative Business Survey
The Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (HEY LEP) are undertaking some research into the business support and financial support needs of creative businesses in the region. This work will inform our business support offer for the “creative industries” where we lack up to date insights, and will also help us to develop bids and secure future funding.
By “creative industries”, we specifically mean businesses that operate – either in full or in part – in the following sub-sectors:
Advertising &
New guidance brings clarity on employment status for workers and businesses
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published new guidance on employment status to support HR advisers, individuals and businesses to gain a better understanding of which employment rights apply to them.
This new guidance brings together employment laws into one place for businesses and individuals to access – including advice for micro businesses, start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have less capacity and legal expertise to understand the law. The government release also clarifies
Business Toolkits
We have access to lots of business tool kits to help your business. The business toolkits are very helpful in promoting your business.The HEY Workforce website is for Effective recruitment, people management and support helps your business to thrive. Thinking about how you can best build and support your workforce is time well spent and provides access to a range of tool kits to help. They are here
The Hey Star-ups website has access to lots of toolkits to
The government aims to provide businesses and workers with greater clarity
The clarity is over employment status and the rights and employment protections people are entitled to at work.
Featuring real world examples of what an individual’s working day or contract may involve – and how that translates into their employment status – the guidance will help smaller businesses that have less capacity and legal expertise to understand the law and reduce the risk of companies being fined for unknowingly breaking the rules.
At the same time, workers can see what rights they
HEY Workforce
The HEY LEP’s Economic Growth and Workplace Wellbeing Strategy PDF file was published earlier this year and one of our priorities is to lead the transformation of the HEY LEP area skills profile, to deliver a highly skilled, healthy, and productive workforce, reducing inequality and increasing life chances for our communities and one of the key objectives is a healthy workplace.
To help achieve this priority we have worked with
partners to create HEY Workforce, a new digital resource containing a wealth
£4.8m Beverley Enterprise Centre officially open for business
29-unit development features offices and workshops following demolition site regeneration
The £4.8 million Beverley Enterprise Centre has been officially opened. The project secured £1.5m from the European Regional Development Fund and £500,000 from the Getting Building Fund, secured by the Hull and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership, as part of the Government’s commitment to the Northern Powerhouse
Boasting 29 units for businesses, it sits on the Grovehill Industrial Estate, and was brought forward by East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
Described as a landmark
HEY Growth Hub Business Intelligence Gathering Monthly Reporting Template
Please complete the attached form below to answer the following questions:
Q1 General business and economic headlines – Any useful intelligence/news gathered in the HEY region this month? This can be positive or negative and relates to any issue affecting business performance, productivity, investment etc. Includes intelligence on general business confidence and attitudes
Q2 Hot topics this week? Any factors businesses are talking about this month? Can include any matter related to “doing business”
Procurement Opportunity – #GrowMySME Business Growth Scheme Humber Social Enterprise Accelerator (Humber SEA 2) RFQ
You
are invited to submit a quotation to support the work of our advisers through
the delivery of sector specific workshops.
Background
The Hull and East Yorkshire (HEY) Growth Hub is part of the Hull and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (HEY LEP) and provides quick and easy access to local and national resources along with information to support businesses to start and grow. The HEY Growth Hub supports businesses, from pre-start to established businesses, to access help with grants, funding, innovation, exporting, growth
The Governments new product safety marking for businesses
The government has announced a range of changes to make it simpler for businesses to apply new product conformity markings for most products placed on the market in England, Scotland and Wales.
The UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark is a mandatory mark on certain products, such as mobile phones, to indicate that they conform to Great Britain legislation. Businesses have until 1 January 2023 to start using UKCA marking which replaces the Conformitè Europëenne (CE).
To make it simpler for businesses to