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Field
and Lycett's Young Rural Entrepreneur of the
Year 2008 Award - deadline looming!
Thank
you very much for your support of our Young
Rural Entrepreneur Award and any coverage you
have given has been greatly appreciated. This
is just a reminder that the closing date is
looming and any further help you can give in
spreading the word of this competition would
be really valuable.
Calling
all entries for the Young Rural Entrepreneur
Award 2008 and the chance to win £10,000!
With
the closing date coming ever closer, if you
or someone you know are under the age of 35
and run a UK business with a rural theme, enter
now for your chance to walk away with a cash
prize of £10,000.
After
the success of last years inaugural award,
Lycetts, the UKs premier countryside insurance
broker, is now searching to find the 2008 Young
Rural Entrepreneur of the Year.
The
award celebrates and supports the entrepreneurial
talent that exists in the countryside, when
uncertain environmental and market conditions
have forced farmers to change their farming
habits or in some cases, get out of farming
completely.
In
2007 brother and sister, Ben and Charlotte Hollins
of Fordhall Community Land Initiative and Family
Farm, proved themselves worthy winners of the
award with a novel and enterprising approach
to funding and managing the successful conversion
of a struggling farm tenancy into a flourishing
community owned business venture.
Charlotte
adds, The cash boost did help with the
refurbishment of the farm, but the award helped
in so many other ways. Winning the prize created
a huge amount of PR for us, in the local media,
the national trade press and various magazines.
As a result we have been able to attract more
supporters for the miscellaneous events that
we organise on the farm, more potential shareholders
and greater involvement with local schools.
Nominations
can be submitted by or on behalf of an individual
who meets the awards criteria.
Prize:
£10,000
Closing
date: 4th August 2008
To
enter: visit http://www.thefield.co.uk
If
you have any questions please dont hesitate
to contact me at emma.blane@lycetts.co.uk
Kind
regards,
Emma
Blane
Young
Rural Entrepreneur Award Co-ordinator
Emma
Blane - Tel No: 0191 232 1151 Fax No: 0191 232
1873
emma.blane@lycetts.co.uk
http://www.lycetts.co.uk
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to enter.
Seminar
Invitation : Secretary of State for Business
and Regulatory Reform v Amway
27 June 2008
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The decision in Secretary of State for Business
and Regulatory Reform v Amway last week should
prompt all direct selling companies and particularly
those with a multi level compensation structure
to examine and consider change to their business
model and practices.
In
a half day seminar we will examine the basis
of the case against Amway, the changes it made
to its business model, the lessons to be learned
from the case and provide some practical advice
about commission plan structures, income claims,
marketing materials, joining fees, distributor
compliance management and control of and responsibility
for the sales force in general in the context
of the decision.
The
seminar will take place at:
Whittlebury
Hall Training Centre, Whittlebury, Near Towcester,
Northants NN12
8QH
Registration
will take place from 9.30am and will include
lunch at 1pm.
To
secure your free place at this seminar, please
can you respond to this email t o confirm your
attendance stating any dietary requirements.
We
look forward to seeing you there.
Kind
regards
Jenny
Cheung
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Roger
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Builders Association, part of the National Federation
of Builders said: "It is very serious indeed.
It is tough times for everybody and the worst
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If
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land purchases in the last year, and then have
found sales dip, as many have, then it is highly
likely they will be finding it difficult to
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Several
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fightyourcorner.com reports an increased number
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"We get calls from visitors to our website:
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with the "blessing" of the Edinburgh
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Businesses. Since then, the team of advisors
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has developed through out most of the UK.
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Budget
response from Tony Robinson OBE, at SFEDI
After
what has appeared a fairly muddled four years
we're just relieved to see an Enterprise Strategy
and do recognise that many of the comments that
SFEDI and
the SFEDI Advisory Board (all the major national
small business membership and business support
organisations) have made have been listened
to. It will achieve some simplification too.
SFEDI has a major role in providing its standards
which underpin enterprise skills and know how
and all qualifications for the new enterprise
academies and self employment as a career and
other potential and existing small business
owner development programmes. Full marks for
appointing a respected entrepreneur and expert
on the regulatory burden, as Sarah Anderson
is, to head up the regulatory review focusing
first on employment matters. Government don't
yet understand that the self employed network
with other self employed to handle growth rather
than take on staff. So, hopefully Sarah can
get us to the point where we look to grow our
businesses through employment.
Mentoring
is proven and so pleased that at last the government
looks to be about to trust us in the private
sector to provide the kind of support that prospective
and existing small and home business owners
demand. SFEDI quality standards for Business
Advisers and Business Mentors will be used to
ensure the quality but it is massive progress
the realisation, proven in all our research
that business to business mentoring tops the
'must have'.
As
I'm a member of the Ethnic Minority Business
Task Force I'm delighted that government will
implement our recommendations. Naturally we'll
accept any further support for disadvantaged
communities, women entrepreneurs and the over
50s. The access to finance, enterprise academies
and work with football clubs are all headline
grabbers but could be great. So thanks lots.
However,
although some of the responsibility for implementing
the strategy is with the private and social
enterprise business support sectors far too
much responsibility still has been given for
implementation to goverment agencies. This was
a real opportunity to leave Business Link as
a very useful signposting service and portal
but to 'go with the grain' of what small business
owners trust for delivery i.e. the existing,
quality assured enterprise support and training
community including enterprise agencies, chambers,
business clubs, accountants, private sector
mentoring, coaching and training providers etc.
A
lot of the report concentrates on celebrating
what has been achieved rather what needs to
be achieved through integrating enterprise in
a strategy across all government departments,
particularly with DIUS, (incl. new Commission
for Employment and Skills and LSC) DWP etc.
We invite them to attend our next SFEDI Advisory
Board meeting to clear up some of the muddled
thinking and loosely used statitics. For example
the report praises the increase in start ups,
self employed and small businesses. 500,000
start ups and 4.5 million small businesses and
then claims how wonderful it is that 70,000
employers, many of them small businesses, have
benefited from the £1billion Train to
Gain funding - 70,000 v 4.5 million!. Just how
much of Train to Gain is helping small and home
business owners gain the enterprise skills and
know how to survive and thrive.
The
self employed are mostly ignored yet 70% of
start ups, which will include at least 200,000
necessity self employed, no other option, will
have no employees. There is a clear bias through
the report when it refers to small firms to
mean those few percent that are 20-50 employees.
For example near the end it quotes figures of
40% of small businesses with an average of over
£250,000 turnover. The average is £65,000
turnover which is why we have the VAT limit
where it is. So they're talking about VAT registered
businesses perhaps?
Similarly
they're going to invest more in leadership and
management training for I think the sixth successive
year, due to a CBI recommendation. Yet surveys
of small business owners including SFEDI's own,
recently of 2,800 small business owners, showed
that they wanted enterprise skills (the stuff
SFEDI describes) such as winning customers and
managing cash flow. Although the strategy says
it is 'not about picking winners' the majority
of the money goes to the potential and existing
small businesses that government regard as higher
employers, higher educated, higher turnover
with higher finance requirements, higher innovation
aspirations and therefore in their opinion higher
growth potential.
There
is a lot for SFEDI to admire in this Enterprise
Strategy and be grateful for but we'd have preferred
more of a focus on enterprise skills and know
how for all and 'going with the grain' for delivery
of this, underpinned by SFEDI standards and
proven good practice, as we believe this will
ultimately be more successful. They deny picking
winners but the bias of the investment is in
that direction and frankly you can't pick winners.
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7
January 2008
Leading Government Enterprise Advisors Show
Support for Sean Taggart and Describe Government
Policy for Small Business Owners as Discriminatory
Two
small business owners who have been leading
enterprise advisers to Government; Tony Robinson
OBE, founder of SFEDI, the business enterprise
training and support standards setting body,
and Elsa Caleb, director of SFEDI and former
member of the governments Small Business
Council, have expressed support for Sean Taggart,
managing director of Kent-based Albatross Travel.
Mr Taggart has just resigned from the Department
for Business and Regulatory Reform's (DBERRs)
Small Business Forum, claiming that the voice
of small business has been neutered
in Whitehall.
Both
have been quick to agree with opinions cited
by Taggart for his departure, particularly his
comment that the Small Business Forum had become
merely a 'tick box' for an SME engagement
agenda that appears to focus more on one-off
events rather than meaningful long-term dialogue
and understanding.
The
SFEDI Board of business owners shares Mr Taggarts
frustration, comments Tony Robinson, recently
recognised for championing UK entrepreneurship
by the International Association of Book-keepers
and a member of DBERRs Ethnic Minority
Business Task Force.
We
give our recommendations in good faith based
on what prospective and existing small business
owners want. Yet when policy is turned into
programmes, we end up with a couple of hundred
thousand management-led organisations becoming
awash with billions of pounds of government
training and support budget, whilst 4.3 million
self employed and small business owner-led enterprises
receive, comparatively, peanuts and higher costs
for meeting regulation. Its a form of
discrimination.
He
added: Whats worse is that small
business owners often get someone sent by government,
who couldnt start or run a small business
in a month of Sundays, wasting their time by
asking them pre-set questions or giving them
prescribed solutions so that the governments
engagement targets are met. This is despite
SFEDI laying down the competence standards to
be met by all those providing support to small
business owners.
Elsa
Caleb, founder of EJC Associates Ltd, a previous
winner of both the European Federation of Black
Women Business Owners Award for Training and
Woman of the Year for Social Enterprise, said:
Seans resignation is a warning shot
for government. At SFEDI we believe government
should help every new start up and small business
owner, in their first year of trading, to meet
enterprise friendly regulations and gain the
know-how and support network to survive and
thrive. The training and support they receive
must meet SFEDI standards in order to guarantee
quality. We dont want big company boiled
down leftovers. Government should be funding
those who cant afford training and not
supporting those companies which can. It sometimes
seems to intervene where it is easier to achieve
headline grabbing targets and not where it is
necessary to intervene.
Elsa
and Tony agreed that despite them urging government
to go with the grain, too much money
is wasted when it does try to help small and
home business owners. Government doesnt
trust those who are already the trusted advisers
to small business owners so instead sets up
its own expensive consultant-designed infrastructure,
marketing agencies and job roles for every new
programme. It should be enabling advisers in
enterprise agencies, community based business
support, small business membership organisations,
chambers, private sector training and support
providers, professional service practices, business
clubs and the like to do the engagement and
delivery job for them.
Despite
us giving up huge amounts of time at great cost
to help with policy and programmes, it seems
that the regulatory burden is just as great
and very little of the Train to Gain, Learn
Direct, Skills for Business Network, Investors
in People and Business Link money has been spent
on useful, practical business development training
and support for micro business owners and the
self employed.
We
need help from all small business owners and
all the small business membership and support
organisations on the SFEDI Advisory Board to
unite to get the attention of government so
that Mr Taggarts efforts are not in vain.
Ends
Notes
to Editors:
SFEDI
is the UK standards setting body and endorsement
body for prospective and existing small and
home business owners and all those that support
them. More details on SFEDI, its work and endorsement
programme and logos can be found on http://www.sfedi.co.uk
The
UK SFEDI Advisory Board Enterprise Support Awards
take place at BAFTA on 17 April 2008. Details
are at http://www.sfedi.co.uk/uk-enterprise-awards.
SFEDI
Advisory Board Organisations supporting and
hosting tables of their guests at the UK Enterprise
Support Awards so far include:
Lloyds
TSB
Federation of Small Businesses
Inbiz Microbusiness and SME training
specialist
National Federation of Enterprise Agencies
The British Chambers of Commerce
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
IAB Qualifications for Business
Kent Enterprise (part of Kent University)
GoSkills the Sector Skills Council for
the Passenger Transport Sector
Lantra the training organisation for
the land-based sector
Customer First (UK) the organisational
standard setting body for customer service for
business support
SFEDI
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BusinessZone.co.uk
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Partners to the SFEDI Advisory Boards
2008 UK Enterprise Support Awards
Leading small business advice websites BusinessZone
and UK Business Forums have teamed up with SFEDI
and its Advisory Board (http://www.sfedi.co.uk)
as media partners to the inaugural SFEDI Advisory
Boards 2008 UK Enterprise Support Awards.
The presentations take place on Thursday 17
April at BAFTA in London with the awards highlighting
excellence among individuals and organisations
providing support to the UKs entrepreneurs
and small businesses.
SFEDI,
the small business watchdog and standards setting
body, is hosting the event on behalf of its
Advisory Body, which brings together all the
major national small and home business membership,
support and training organisations which
help small and home business owners to start
up, survive and thrive. Members include the
British Chambers of Commerce, the Federation
of Small Businesses, the National Federation
of Enterprise Agencies, Inbiz, Lloyds TSB and
the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
BusinessZone.co.uk
is the leading online community for owners and
managers of small to medium sized businesses
providing free resources including practical
advice features, expert blogs and a guide to
start-up finance. UKBusinessForums.co.uk is
the most active SME forum in the UK, providing
reach to over 14,000 members. It is positioned
solely as a site for discussion, engagement
and interaction, generating 2,000 posts a week,
and over 800,000 page impressions per month.
Tony
Robinson OBE, small business owner and executive
director of SFEDI, said: Theres
a rich community of people in the UK specialising
in meeting SFEDI standards to provide the best
and most practical help necessary for small
businesses. Members of the community range from
volunteer mentors from start up charities, to
trainers and advisers from banks, enterprise
agencies, accountants, private sector specialist
companies helping the long term employed into
self employment to those providing incubator
support for graduate entrepreneurs.
The
SFEDI Advisory Body Enterprise Support Awards
remind us that behind every successful small
business owner, there are often one or two committed
advisors, who have provided expert guidance
through good times and bad. The Awards will
showcase true excellence in the UKs small
business support sector and were delighted
to be working with BusinessZone.co.uk and UKBusinessForums.co.uk
to give this community the recognition it deserves.
Dan
Martin, editor of http://www.businesszone.co.uk
and administrator of http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk,
commented: Many of the UK's entrepreneurs
are more than happy to help and support fellow
small business owners in achieving the kind
of success they have enjoyed. Unfortunately,
however, their efforts are not often recognised.
The SFEDI Advisory Body Enterprise Support Awards
put this right.
"BusinessZone.co.uk
and UKBusinessForums.co.uk are delighted to
be the official media partners of the awards.
I look forward to hearing what I'm sure will
be immensely inspirational entrepreneurial stories.
Categories
include awards for professional advisers, such
as accountants, through to volunteer business
mentors. There is also an award for the business
owner or entrepreneur who has done most to support
other small and home business owners, also sponsored
by BusinessZone.co.uk and UKBusinessForums.co.uk
Nominations can be made online at www.sfedi.co.uk/uk-enterprise-awards.
The closing date is 30 January 2008.
Ends
For SFEDI media enquiries please contact:
Rebecca George - George PR - 01449 737281/07974
161108, email: rebecca@georgepr.com
Notes
to Editors:
SFEDI is the UK standards setting body and endorsement
body for prospective and existing small and
home business owners and all those that support
them. More details on SFEDI, its work and endorsement
programme and logos can be found on www.sfedi.co.uk
SFEDI
is currently seeking sponsors for the individual
Enterprise Awards and for tables of ten seats
at the Awards Lunch on 17 April 2008. Details
are at http://www.sfedi.co.uk/uk-enterprise-awards.
Members
of the SFEDI Advisory Board involved with the
event include:
British
Chambers of Commerce
Forum for Private Business
Federation of Small Businesses
National Federation of Enterprise Agencies
Lloyds TSB
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
Inbiz
Customer First UK
Kent Enterprise Hub
IAB Qualifications for Business
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marketing, customer management and knowledge
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Hello,
I
was simply wondering if you could take one minute
out of your busy schedule to take a look at
this small home business marketing site:
http://smallbusiness.logoworks.com
and, if you find it interesting enough, link
to it from the links page of homebusiness.org.uk.
The
blog features articles geared towards small
business marketing, and provides a few resources
that would be valuable to small business or
home business owners. We offer a lot of small
business marketing content that your site visitors
would find useful.
Other
than benefiting your website visitors, we would
also like to perminently add a link to your
website from our resources site, with your permission.
Let
me know what you think, and thank you very much
for your time.
I
really appreciate it,
Tanner
Christensen
http://smallbusiness.logoworks.com
iTrade
website
This
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UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) department
to help firms in the East of England network
with their international counterparts, exchanging
knowledge and ideas. There is also information
on worldwide business trends, news, events and
courses. Members can discuss ideas in the forums.
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Hi there
I
run Platinax (http://www.platinax.co.uk/)
which is a free resource run by entrepreneurs
to help other entrepreneurs and start-ups get
the most from using the internet. It does this
by providing helpful articles, a business forum
for Q&A, as well as news and a business
directory.
Id
just like to find out whether its possible
to work with homebusiness.org.uk in order to
help raise awareness of Platinax among your
visitors. For example, do you provide any advertising
opportunities?
In
the meantime, any questions, feel free to ask.
Best
regards,
Brian
http://www.platinax.co.uk/
Platinax
Internet Ltd is registered in Scotland: SC291750
Phone:
07963 808470
Email:
brian@platinax.co.uk
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Plan software
Hello,
Home Business Alliance,
I am the Director of a organisation called Company
Partners. I've just visited homebusiness.org.uk
and I think that our web sites have similar
audiences. We are very careful who we link to
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This
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Directory
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Farmers'
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