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We are delighted to share that the Inspiring Enterprise project has been awarded an additional £1.4 million from the National Lottery Community Fund and European Social Fund to continue its life-changing work in the Hampshire and Surrey area. The WSX Enterprise –led project, Inspiring Enterprise, helps unemployed people and people ‘not in work’, such as […]

We often get asked questions about getting a mortgage if you are self employed. In this blog Inspiring Enterprise partner Val Buckingham from Fredricks Foundation explains the options. One of the misconceptions about the mortgage market is that it is now very difficult for self-employed people to get a self-employed mortgage loan in order to […]

Guest blog by Esi Hardy. For small businesses, making your business accessible and inclusive for disabled employees to succeed may seem daunting.  We see the corporates, with their unlimited budgets spend on Diversity & Inclusion strategies without batting an eyelid. However, it doesn’t have to be as hard and it’s not as costly as you […]

From a young age Kirstine had always loved jewels and gemstones, but it wasn’t until she undertook a jewellery-making course that she began to wonder if she might turn her passion into a business. At the time Kirstine was doing contract work as an organisational change manager but found this exhausting and stressful, and so […]

Michael Hamblin lives in Kingsclere between Basingstoke and Newbury. He used to work as a car mechanic and naturally has a love for cars. Due to the heavy physical work as a mechanic, unfortunately Michael developed knee problems and never really got back to normal. Finding it difficult to move he had to stay at […]

Esi Hardy is the founder and Managing Director of Celebrating Disability who offer disability equality and inclusion training and consultancy for your business. She has was a participant of the Inspiring Enterprise Project. Here she gives her top lessons in developing business confidence: When developing my confidence as a new business owner, what I found […]

Action Hampshire is one of the delivery partners for the Inspiring Enterprise programme. their main focus is on supporting people to start up their own social enterprise. Here, business adviser Seb Mayfield explains what Social Enterprise is… “With the number of social enterprises increasing rapidly in the UK, the chances are that you will have heard […]

The Biscuit Barrel sketch group were participants of the Inspiring Enterprise project and are going from strength to strength. The Biscuit Barrel is an outrageously hyperactive sketch group, who clocked in fifty-eight sketches in the space of an hour at last year’s Fringe; the highest sketch-rate at the festival no less! Best described as ‘the […]