Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund Reaches Key Milestones
The Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF), supported by the European Regional Development Fund, has achieved a number of significant milestones over the last three months, owing to the strong momentum generated across the region. Having been a part of its development from the beginning, it has been exciting to see NPIF being effectively utilised to make a real difference to businesses in the North.
The achievements we’ve witnessed so far are testament to the entrepreneurial spirit found in the North. Our
How Skills Support For The Workforce Can Help Your Business And Employees Grow
The Skills Support for the Workforce and Skills Support for Redundancy programmes are designed to deliver responsive workplace learning courses across the Humber region to meet individual, employer and regional economic needs.
By up-skilling the workforce, the Skills Support for the Workforce (SSW) and Skills Support for Redundancy (SSR) programmes aim to reduce the risk of long-term unemployment and enhance employee skills and career prospects.
Skills Support for the Workforce (SSW)
The SSW programme provides fully funding workplace training to SME’s to meet
Innovation loans to demonstrate infrastructure systems
Up to £10 million is available in loans to UK SMEs in a pilot programme offered by Innovate UK.
Small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on late-stage infrastructure systems projects can apply for a share of £10 million in a pilot loans competition – the first opportunity to access Innovate UK’s new alternative financial support scheme.
This loans competition aims to help businesses overcome barriers to scaling up innovation in infrastructure systems. It will do this by enabling them to demonstrate their
Construction firm set to build its business with £100k NPIF funding
L-r: Ian Atkinson, Investment Manager at Mercia Fund Managers, Director of Westlinks Joiners and Locksmiths Brian Gilliland and Jon Brunton, Humber LEP Growth Hub Business Advisor
A Hull company which provides construction services to the social housing sector has secured £100,000 funding for expansion from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF).
Westlinks Joiners and Locksmiths Ltd undertake major renovation, maintenance and adaptation work for a wide variety of commercial and public sector clients, housing associations
Business & IP Centre Hull – Business Prize Offer
Business &IP Centre Hull are looking for entrepreneurs with innovative and creative business ideas which have the potential to make a big impact in their field. This is your chance to win cash and support to help get off the ground or expand your business.
Most Innovative Community Enterprise (all ages) – Funded by JRLT
Open to entrants of all ages who:
Have just started a community enterprise or have been operating within the last 12 months
Are a resident of Hull
We are looking
GDPR messages for the boardroom
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply in the UK from 25 May 2018. The government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will not affect the commencement of the GDPR.
With so many businesses and services operating across borders, international consistency around data protection laws and rights is crucial both to businesses and organisations, and to individuals.Having clear laws with safeguards in place is more important than ever given the growing digital economy.
Current research shows that the knowledge
Scunthorpe Youth Market
Try out your business idea at Scunthorpe Youth Market
The first ever Youth Market in Scunthorpe is taking place on Saturday 2 December for young entrepreneurs aged 16 to 30 to try out their own business idea.
Have you a got a great business idea but not sure where to start? Do you want to run your own business? Are you aged between 16 and 30? Book your place on the Youth Market.
You can sell everything from t-shirts to bread and everything
Continued growth in the Humber aided by NPIF
Never has the time been better to invest in the Humber. That’s the message being communicated to inward investors and local companies as the area rides on the back of significant investments made to benefit its key sectors.
The Humber is in the midst of an economic resurgence, with the estuary very much a key asset in driving that growth. Key sectors in energy and offshore wind have resulted in the region being recognised at the forefront of worldwide wind energy
For Entrepreneurs Only – FEO360 programme
Applications are now open to Small Business owners for places on the 2018 FEO360 programme!
Calling all Small Business Owners in Hull and East Yorkshire! FEO360 is back! This FREE programme is designed and presented by some of the region’s leading successful entreprenuers, giving YOU the peer support you need to develop your business, and most importantly, yourself. The FEO360 programme offers you a fresh, full-360 perspective on your business, enhancing your attitudes and skills in key areas such as time
Win a shop and start your own retail business
Have you got a brilliant business idea and the ambition to run an outlet in a premier Shopping Centre?
Do you live in the Lincolnshire area?
Freshney Place Shopping Centre has teamed up with The Business Hive Club to launch a Dragon’s Den style competition to find a budding entrepreneur with a big future.
The prize for the winner will be a fantastic retail unit in the busy Freshney Place Shopping Centre, Grimsby, Lincolnshire’s Premier Shopping destination, entirely free for six months.