Mentoring and the Big Society: MEECOE’s Experience on How Peer-to-Peer Business Networking Can Promote Growth
Business support and community regeneration policy are being radically restructured by the Coalition Government. As mentioned in last week’s blog post, one new program that will be implemented next year nationally is the Business Networking Network. MEECOE[1], is able to provide some real life experience on the subject matter based on some of our innovatory … Continue reading
Life after EMDA: Leicester and Leicestershire’s Local Enterprise Partnership
In recent months, the Regional Development Agency (RDA) for the East Midlands region, East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA), has been winding down their activities and will eventually be scrapped by March 2012 due to public sector budget cuts. A recent Government white paper that was released on October 28th, 2010 provides a road map outlining … Continue reading
14th Ethnic Minority Business Conference Booking Information
The 14th Ethnic Minority Business Conference is the UK’s benchmark event on diversity and entrepreneurship. This year, it focuses on the theme of ‘Making diversity everyone’s business’, and directs its attention to the dynamic changes in national enterprise policy and practice. Practitioners from the private and public sector outline their innovative approaches to promoting this … Continue reading
Behind the Scenes at CREME – Planning the Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference
The Annual Ethnic Minority Business Conference is one of the main highlights in the CREME calendar each year. It is an opportunity for all of our stakeholders to meet up and hear about current developments in business support for ethnic minority businesses, new policy initiatives as well as CREME’s research projects. It is now 14 … Continue reading
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