The Great British High Street Of The Year Awards 2016
The Great British High Street Competition is a Government and business-led initiative which celebrates our nation’s much-loved high streets. Now in its third year, it showcases the people, businesses and partnerships that are putting their high street at the heart of their communities.
The 2015 Competition was a huge success. Over 230 high streets took part and the campaign to find the winners made a huge dent in the public consciousness, with over 200,000 votes cast for the finalists. This year,
Government gives UK businesses £57m boost to bring ideas to market
A new funding boost of £57.5 million has been announced for the UK’s energy and infrastructure, biomedical and quantum technology sectors.
The best ideas will compete for funding to develop new sustainable energy and transport solutions, bring new healthcare advancements to market and drive forward commercial advances in quantum technology (used in electronic devices such as clocks and computers).
The series of competitions will open over the next 2 weeks and be run by Innovate UK and its partner organisations. The competitions
Humber Business Resilience Forum (HBRF) – helping business combate cyber crime
The HBRF brings together businesses, Law enforcement and academics to ensure that businesses can access the most up to date expertise and information to protect themselves from security threats. The HBRF aim is to create a secure Humber region where businesses and organisations can flourish.
Members of HBRF will learn how to make their organisations more resilient to cyber security threats. The HBRF is open to organisations of all sizes and sectors across the Humber region.
It combines the expertise of academia,
Active Humber – Use you business skills to help local sports clubs
Inspiring and innovating through sport and physical activity.
Active Humber is an organisation that exists to use the influence of sport and physical activity to make a positive impact on people’s lives. The Active Humber team build strong and effective relationships to create accessible and sustainable opportunities through sport and physical activity.
We work with national, regional and local partners to improve and increase participation in sport and physical activity, and provide and administer resources to support the sustainable growth of sports
Fit For Work – Free Occupational Health Assistance For Employers
Fit For Work, a free, government-led initiative that helps businesses grow through improving their productivity and profitability via effective management of staff sickness absence. Sickness absence has serious implications for employers and staff so the free support provided by Fit for Work can be invaluable to businesses affected, particularly small businesses that do not have their own occupational health support.
Free occupational health assessments to help employees return to work after absence of four weeks or more. Access to online and
Yorkshire and Humber lawyers asked to help competition law awareness
Yorkshire and Humber-based lawyers are being asked to help promote awareness of new competition law compliance materials to business clients.
Around 120 law firms headquartered in Yorkshire and the Humber will be contacted by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and encouraged to share the CMA’s easy-to-use competition law information with their small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients.
The information is intended to help SMEs recognise anti-competitive practices, comply with competition law and report suspicions of illegal anti-competitive activity.
The approach is part of
Investments on track to add £1.42bn to Humber economy by end of Parliament
Projects and programmes invested in by the Humber LEP and delivered by partners are on track to add £1.42bn to the Humber economy by the end of 2019/20 – a return of £5 GVA benefit for every £1 invested.
As part of this 12,050 gross FTE jobs will be created, 600 safeguarded and 62,228 properties will have reduced flood risk.
An impact assessment which forms part of the LEP’s Annual Review 2015/16 – launched on Friday 10 June – shows investments to
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses access to funding – deadline extended
Due to a high level of interest The deadline for application for the 10,000 Small business Programme has now been extended to Monday 30th June 2016.
Do you run a successful business or social enterprise and are looking to grow?
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing greater access to education and business support services. 10,000 Small Businesses is funded by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation
The programme provides high-quality, practical education specifically tailored
Innovate UK is investing up to £15 million in innovative R&D projects
Innovate UK is to invest up to £15 million in innovative R&D projects. These projects are designed to help businesses develop new products, processes and services with commercial potential. The aim is to enhance UK competitiveness, growth and improve national productivity.
The competition is open to the best business-led ideas or concepts. These can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area, including Innovate UK’s 4 priority sectors for growth.
Projects should demonstrate disruptive, cutting-edge innovations and businesses should demonstrate ambition
International Festival For Business – 13th June to 1st July
The International Festival for Business 2016 (IFB2016) will be the world’s top business event this year. Attended by more than 30,000 delegates from the UK and 100 countries around the world, it will be a buzzing marketplace to make connections, do deals and inspire you to challenge the way business is done, innovate and change in a world that never stands still.
IFB2016 is completely free to attend, with free events and free expert advice. All you have to do is