Employer guide to apprenticeships and traineeships
An Information guide for employers showing the benefits of apprenticeships and traineeships to their business.
This guide gives employers the information and benefits of recruiting apprentices to their business.
The benefits of apprenticeships are becoming increasingly obvious to more and more businesses. It’s a fact that apprenticeships develop a motivated, skilled and qualified workforce. Businesses that offer apprenticeships view them as beneficial to their long-term development.
The guide also offers information for employers considering offering traineeships to young people, including the benefits of
Interactive Healthcare Fund
For small creative and digital businesses (SMEs) who wish to bring innovative digital health and wellbeing products and services to market
Funded by Creative England’s Regional Growth Fund and managed by Creative England in partnership with the Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).
Key Information
£250,000 will be available via investments of up to £50,000 per application
Companies must be based in England, outside of Greater London (innovations that have potential to benefit Yorkshire & Humber communities are welcomed)
The fund will open
Humber LEP Newsletter – February 2016
The Latest edition of the Humber Local Enterprise Newsletter is now out.
In this months edition:
£58m Local Growth Fund approved projects
Grant feeds growth for animal nutrition firm Agrimin
STEAM event to support careers choices
Humber Enterprise Zone projects and Programmes
Tata steel task force
Skills Pledge
View the newsletter here
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Childcare New Business Grant Scheme Extended
The future of the Childcare New Business Grant Scheme is currently under review. While this review takes place, the current scheme will remain open to new applications up to and including the 31st March 2016.
Claimants accepted to the scheme will have until the 17th June 2016 to submit a valid, Ofsted or CMA certificate to enable the grant payment to be made.
Application will be accepted for new business and new businesses who are operating within the 1st 12 months since
FSB Newsletter 19th February 2016
The latest South & East Yorkshire FSB Newsletter is now available. The array of issues addressed in this week’s edition includes:
FSB Business Opportunity 2016 – Making serious contacts.
Events for Sheffield Year of Making
World of Work Week professional networking event
Cyber crime and business – what’s the future
‘Mystery shoppers’ required for Meadowhall Young Enterprise project
Hull forum for local construction employers
Digital Demons United at Glanford Park
Yorkshire Coast Expo 2016 – Scarborough Spa
Would you like to grow your business?
February 2016 is proving to be a
UK Steel Enterprise – Kickstart fund will help boost start-up businesses in North Lincolnshire
Dozens of entrepreneurs to benefit from new initiative
UK Steel Enterprise has announced the launch of a new fund that will help boost dozens of start-up businesses in North Lincolnshire over the next twelve months.
The Kickstart Fund initiative, launched in partnership with North Lincolnshire Council and the Growth Hub, has been introduced in a bid to support people looking to establish a business or become self-employed by helping with initial costs – especially for those with limited funds.
Grants of between £500
Digital innovation in the sharing economy
Innovate UK is offering 6 businesses up to £30,000 (excluding VAT) each to encourage innovation in the sharing economy, across the themes of trust, tourism and travel, opening up new sectors, home improvement, construction, and data and analytics.
The contest
Through our IC tomorrow programme, we are looking for proposals from companies with innovative digital ideas relevant to the sharing economy. The companies will not only benefit from funding, but also have the opportunity to collaborate with commercial partners to accelerate development
From Brid to Hull, effects of Growth Deal can be felt
With almost £20m released in 2015/16 and £40m planned for release in 2016/17, the Humber LEP’s Growth Deal is supporting projects that help to drive the growth of the Humber economy.
Funding from the Government’s Local Growth Fund is being invested alongside other public and private sector funding in projects that will help to create an infrastructure that supports growth by improving access by road and rail, safeguarding from flooding, support businesses by unlocking projects to provide the right office space,
FSB Newsletter 12th February 2016
The latest South & East Yorkshire FSB Newsletter is now available. The array of issues addressed in this week’s edition includes:
In this weeks issue:
Join FSB at Yorkshire’s primary networking event
The profit of good health in Doncaster
Yorkshire Coast Expo 2016 – Scarborough Spa
Women in Business and the International Athena Award
Supplier engagement and business networking event
Workshop for company directors and business start ups
Higher and degree apprenticeships: addressing the skills gap
World’s largest offshore wind farm to create 2,000 jobs off East Yorkshire
South Yorkshire businesses
Shadow Small Business Minister visit to Hull’s Enterprising Young People
Shadow Small Business Minister, Bill Esterson, is to visit Hull on 16th February. He is meeting organisations that are involved in the city’s youth enterprise agenda and some of the young entrepreneurs who have received support.
Whilst he is in Hull he will meet with a number of young entrepreneurs who have received support from the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, teachers involved in the Be Enterprising Group of teachers and tutors as well as representatives of London Youth Support a