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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 […]
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Emily Whittingham is a visual artist who is a resident at The Sorting Office, designer/maker studio in Eastleigh. Here she talks about how Inspiring Enterprise helped her…. “I’ve always loved making art but it was only really in the last year or so that I finally decided to go for it as a […]
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At our recent Inspiring Enterprise Development Day we asked the teams what their highlights of the project were and here are some of the comments: “Being told by participants what difference we have made to their lives for the better” “The joy on someone’s face when they sold their first items” “My client bursting into […]
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The WSX Enterprise-led Inspiring Enterprise programme has attracted additional backing to carry on its life-changing support to unemployed people. The contract was expected to finish in December but due to its high level of success and continuing stream of enquiries, funders have agreed to carry on supporting the project. To date Inspiring Enterprise has helped […]
Read MoreThis is how Andy Pringle started his inspiring and motivating talk about starting a business to a group of start ups in Basingstoke. He spoke at the November networking session of Inspiring Enterprise, a project helping unemployed people become self-employed or start their own business. Andy is an experienced advisor and mentor when it comes […]
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I am waiting in the queue at Costa’s looking at all the sugar laden cakes and tarts. Do people still eat those these days? The sugar tax, the increase in vegan and vegetarian food, obesity…you would have thought that a more healthy option would do well. Now I am not a buyer for the coffee […]
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I suddenly realise I am really hungry when I walk into Shamala’s kitchen. She is cooking several dishes for our lunch today to show off her skills and discuss her options going forward. Shamala is a highly skilled senior teacher who due to ill health had to leave the teaching profession. But she and her […]
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Inspiring Enterprise project officers Erica Sandford and Claire Dawson, both with Surrey Community Action, have been working with Sophie Foote, Manager of the County Care Community Skills Project, to assist adults with learning difficulties to launch a successful business making and selling sweet bags. They have produced a business model for the group and have […]
Read MoreInspiring Enterprise have been helping a Social Enterprise set up and develop in Wickham. The Project in Wickham, set up by Sue Cooper and her team of volunteers collect and recycle food and products – which otherwise would be sent to landfill – from major supermarkets with permission. Goods are then laid out on Monday, Thursday […]
Read MoreOur friends at Enterprise First offer a very useful Bookkeeping Course. Essential for when you start or run your own business. They take place once a month, last 3 hours, are free and take place in Aldershot. You sign up using the links below. Always been slightly nervous of how to keep accounts? Want to […]
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