PRIME business club

Date: Wednesday 28th January 2009

Time: 1:45pm - 5:00pm

Venue: The Circle, 3 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4WF

Status: PRIME event

PRIME is running a free workshop for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about becoming self-employed or starting a business in Sheffield.

Find out if self-employment is right for you. The workshop will help you identify skills you have, explore business ideas and produce an action plan to take those ideas forward.

To book your FREE place call PRIME on 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

Date: Wednesday 21st January 2009

Time: 9:15am - 12:30pm

Venue: The Circle, 3 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4WF

Status: PRIME event

PRIME is running a free workshop for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about becoming self-employed or starting a business in Sheffield.

Find out if self-employment is right for you. The workshop will help you identify skills you have, explore business ideas and produce an action plan to take those ideas forward.

To book your FREE place call PRIME on 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

Date: Wednesday 14th January 2009

Time: 1:45pm - 5:00pm

Venue: The Circle, 3 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4WF

Status: PRIME event

PRIME is running a free workshop for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about becoming self-employed or starting a business in Sheffield.

Find out if self-employment is right for you. The workshop will help you identify skills you have, explore business ideas and produce an action plan to take those ideas forward.

To book your FREE place call PRIME on 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

Date: Tuesday 9th December 2008

Time: 9:45am - 12:45pm

Venue: The Circle, 3 Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4WF

Status: PRIME event

PRIME is running a free workshop for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about becoming self-employed or starting a business in Sheffield.

Find out if self-employment is right for you. The workshop will help you identify skills you have, explore business ideas and produce an action plan to take those ideas forward.

To book your FREE place call PRIME on 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

Date: Tuesday 2nd December 2008

Time: 9:00am - 13:00pm

Venue: The Pointe, Darts (Doncaster Community Arts), 16 South Parade, Doncaster DN1 2DR

Status: PRIME event

For more information about starting your own business come along to our free workshop session for beginners

To book your free place, please call 0800 783 1904

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Date: Thursday 20th November 2008

Time: 13:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue: DNCC Commerce Centre, Canal Wharf, Chesterfield, S41 7NF

Status: PRIME event

If you’re looking for a change in your working life, or maybe to get back into work, PRIME is running a free drop-in event in partnership with Derbyshire Enterprise Agency at the Chamber of Commerce in Chesterfield next Thursday 20^th November.

The afternoon event, entitled ‘Curious about self employment?’ is open from 1.00 to 4.0pm, and has been organised to coincide with the national Enterprise Week campaign.  This is an ideal opportunity for anyone who has an interest in self-employment, but has yet to take the first steps, as you will be able to meet a variety of local agencies who can help with different aspects of setting up a business for the first time.

Anyone who is interested in attending should call Derbyshire Enterprise Agency on:01246 212902 or email caroline.colley@dncc.co.uk

Programme:

1.00 - 1.15 Registration and Refreshments
1.15 - 1.20 Introductions
1.20 - 1.50 Business Link - Vaughan Roberts
(including start up offer, workshops and mentoring)
1.50 - 2.10 PRIME - Nicola Tomlinson-Murphy
2.10 - 2.25 Case Study - Pending confirmation
2.25 - 2.40 Tea and Coffee Break
2.40 - 2.55 HMRC - Susan Brierley
2.55 - 3.10 Business Link eBusiness Programme -Diane Simpson
3.10 - 3.25 Chesterfield College - Helen Parsons
3.25 - 3.55 Questions and Answers
3.55 - 4.00 Evaluation Feedback and Close

STOP PRESS: APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.
PRIME has obtained corporate sponsorship for four new training and mentoring posts in the North and South of England.

The training posts are full time, while the mentoring co-ordinator positions are part time (17.5 hours a week).  All the jobs will involve travel, but can be based anywhere feasible in the North or South of England.

Training Officers

To develop, organise and deliver a range of training products, such as workshops for PRIME clients and course materials. You will also help market them to potential beneficiaries and sponsors. Successful applicants are likely to have considerable experience of delivering business information and training.

There are two full-time positions, one for the North and the other the South of of England. The jobs will be home-based (for which an allowance is payable), or it may be possible to arrange a desk in a local PRIME partner organisation. Frequent travel will be required.

Job description and person spec for Training Officer

Application form for Training Officer

Closing date

Friday 5th December 2008.
Interviews: To be held on Monday the 15th of December.

Mentoring Co-ordinators

To develop a volunteer mentoring service, which we hope to extend eventually to all PRIME clients.

We are looking for two people, part-time, one based in the North and one based in the South. The job will involve recruiting, training and co-ordinating volunteer mentors for PRIME clients, initially in their early pre-enterprise phase. The successful applicants will ideally have some experience in mentoring in the context of disadvantage and self-employment.

Job description and person spec for Mentor Co-ordinator

Application form for Mentor Co-ordinator

Closing date

Friday 5th December 2008.
Interviews: To be held on Wednesday 17th December 2008.

Application requests can be sent to prime@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7833. Or you can download the application form and background documents from the links above.

Please note that only applications on our application forms will be accepted.

STOP PRESS: APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.
PRIME has obtained corporate sponsorship for an innovative new loans scheme that will open to the public in 2009. We are recruiting now for the key post of loans officer.

The successful applicant will bring experience of business loans, preferably in the CDFI sector, to the development and administration of an innovative new loan scheme for the over 50s. The post is based in our central office in South London.

You will be responsible for helping to set up the new loan fund, and then running it on a day-to-day basis. You will need an understanding of small businesses, and be able to develop a workable system for assessing business plans - and providing some feedback to those whose plans are not yet investment ready.

You will have willingness to be hands-on, and the experience and drive to make things happen at an exciting time in PRIME’s development.

Application requests can be sent to prime@ace.org.uk or call 020 8765 7833. Or you can download the application form and background documents below.

Application form

Job description and person spec

Please note that only applications on our application form will be accepted.
Closing date: Friday 5th December 2008
Interviews: (to be held in London) on Friday 12th December 2008.

Date: Tuesday 20th November 2008

Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm

Venue: The Honey Pot, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Square, Bromyard

Status: PRIME recommended event

 

Social enterprise and co-op awareness day. Drop in any time. All welcome.

Contact Clare Foster at claref@midwest-rural.org.uk  

Date: Friday 21st November 2008

Time: 11:30am - 2:00pm

Venue: The International Business Centre, Delta Crescent, Westbrook, Warrington, WA5 7WQ

Status: PRIME recommended event

 

Opportunity to meet and talk with local advisers who can help you start and grow your business. Please let the organisers know if you are attending, so that they know how much food to prepare.

Please contact Cheshire and Warrington Business Venture on 01925 715 175 or stella.libertini@wbv.org.uk  

UPDATE:Missed the programme? Watch on BBC iPlayer.

“Charles At 60: the Passionate Prince” transmits at 8.30pm on BBC One on the 12th of November. The BBC has had unprecedented access over the course of a year to observe the Prince at work in the UK and abroad, at home at Clarence House in London, at Highgrove in Gloucestershire and Birkhall in Aberdeenshire.

“This important documentary sheds new light on the Prince of Wales”, says Nick Vaughan-Barratt, its Executive Producer. “It shows the Prince using his substantial influence to further a wide variety of causes – some of them unfashionable, some controversial – and it provides a rare opportunity to hear him speaking directly, not just about what he does but why he is so passionate about the many causes he espouses.”

More about the programme at the BBC web site

Full list of Prince’s charities and social enterprises

Note: PRIME (the Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise) was born around ten years ago, as a direct result of the approach of the Prince’s 50th birthday. He realised that for most people getting a job gets increasingly difficult with age. His post bag was full of letters from people desperate to work but unable to find anyone to employ them - because they were “too old”. PRIME is one of the 18 charities the Prince has personally founded.

Prince Charles has also founded six social enterprises. Their trading activities help fund the charities. The best known is the highly successful organic brand Duchy Originals, the most recent The Highgrove Shop.

Date: Tuesday 18th November 2008

Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: Hyndburn, Globe Centre, St.James Square, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 0RE

Status: PRIME recommended event

Advice on business for the over 50s. Drop-in format, Q & A for potential start ups, existing start ups on panel plus partners to answer questions.

Please contact Aileen Evans at centa@fsmail.net  

Date: Monday 19th November 2008

Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Venue: The Old Curiosity Shop, The Square, Bromyard

Status: PRIME recommended event

 

Women’s enterprise event. Please contact Clare Foster at claref@midwest-rural.org.uk  

Date: Monday 17th November 2008

Time: 10.30am - 4:00pm

Venue: Shire Hall, Union Street, Hereford, HR1 2HX

Status: PRIME recommended event

Drop-in event in Herefordshire. Contact Clare Foster at claref@midwest-rural.org.uk

Date: Tuesday 18th November 2008

Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Venue: Conference Room, St Helens Chamber, 7 Waterside Court, Technology Campus, St Helens, WA9 1UE

Status: PRIME recommended event

The seminar ‘Be your own boss when you are over 50′, is free to attend and features presentations on the most frequently asked questions when starting a business, as well as a chance to arrange a one-to-one meeting with a business start-up adviser, refreshments and a chance to network with like-minded people.

For more information or to book a place, please contact Lauren King on 01744 742096.