Creative England Re-launches Business Loans Scheme
Creative England is supporting creative digital businesses to finance growth through the provision of interest free loans.
The Business Loans scheme aims to help fuel the growth of the fastest growing sector in the UK economy, financing business expansion and new projects which will lead to the creation of new, high-quality jobs. The main objective of the scheme is to promote economic growth by providing secured interest free loans.
Loans of between £50,000 and £200,000 per application are available. A small arrangement
Crowdfunder and JCDecaux launch a search for Britain’s 100 hottest tech start-ups
The crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder and JCDecaux, the UK’s leading Outdoor Advertising company, have partnered to help rapidly scale up 100 start-ups across Britain.
Nurture, JCDecaux’s new division, is working with Crowdfunder to find start-up businesses who want to grow, to help them market their brand or product with an exclusive support package – and the chance to win a specially designed advertising campaign for their needs.
For start-up businesses who fund their media budgets on Crowdfunder, Nurture will provide a marketing and design mentoring service
Government set to spend £1 in every £3 with small businesses
Matt Hancock, the Minister for the Cabinet Office has announced an ambitious new target to get more small businesses working on central government contracts.
In 2013 to 2014, central government spent an unprecedented £11.4 billion with small and medium-sized businesses – those employing 250 employees or less. This is equivalent to 26% of central government spend.
By 2020, the government wants to increase this to a third. This would mean an extra £3 billion per year (in 2013 to 2014 terms) going
Investment of up to £10 million in collaborative R&D projects
News Item from Innovate UK.
Innovate UK is to invest up to £10 million in collaborative R&D projects to catalyse innovation to improve the efficiency and experience of the end-to-end journey for people and freight.
We are seeking innovative proposals that facilitate seamless end-to-end journeys for people and goods. The concept of end-to-end journeys aims to expand the thinking around mobility as a service, by developing truly multi-modal travel options and a single point of access for the customer (whether traveller
Cash injection supports job opportunities in Hull
Hull jobseekers are set to benefit from a £20,000 cash injection to support the on-going creation of apprenticeships, training and employment opportunities within the city’s construction industry.
The funding has been awarded to Futureworks (Yorkshire) by the Wates Family Enterprise Trust’s charitable programme, Wates Giving. This will increase investment in work-based learning programmes and career development opportunities for the city’s apprentices and volunteers.
Supported by Wates Living Space, currently building Hull’s £80m PFI extra care housing developments, the grant application signals a
Queen’s Award For Enterprise
There is still time for nominations and applications for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Applications must be made by 30th September 2015.
There are 3 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for organisations, and one for individuals.
For organisations
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are awards for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of:
innovation – for commercial success as a result of innovation
international trade – for growth and commercial success in international trade
sustainable development – for commercially successful products, services and management that benefit the
New £5000 Government grant for small businesses to boost cyber security
New online hub to tackle cyber skills shortage
A new scheme to protect small businesses from cyber attacks has been announced by Government today (Thursday 16 July 2015).
Speaking at the Reform “Cyber Security: assurance, resilience, response” conference in London, Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey has outlined how a new voucher scheme designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) will launch later this month.
The launch of the voucher scheme is part of a package of initiatives designed to increase the resilience
How teenage markets are revitalising UK towns
An interesting article in the Guardian on how a simple idea of setting up local markets for teenage traders has become a huge hit with young entrepreneurs breathing new life into UK markets.
View the full article here.
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Growth on Growth Fund
University of Lincoln to Help Incubatees ‘Fly the Nest’!
The Grow-on Growth Fund is a new £2m RGF funded initiative led by The Research and Enterprise Department at University of Lincoln. The scheme enables early stage businesses located in business incubation environments (e.g. business incubator, innovation centres, enterprise centres etc.) to ‘fly the nest’ and create secure sustainable high quality jobs. Acting as a funder of last resort, the Fund has two objectives:
Facilitate and support early stage companies with growth plans
Young Hull entrepreneurs launch digital game
Hull City Council Press release:
Pupils from three Hull schools are getting ready to launch a new online game following a year of development work, as part of a Young Enterprise project. The students from Gillshill Primary School, Sirius Academy and Malet Lambert originally produced a board game, with support from Engaging Education and the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank. The game, “Hull Enterprise Trail”, shows local organisations that support enterprising young people in the city. After presenting the game to Lord Young