PRIME business club

PRIME is currently working with Success Doncaster to help you assess your idea and decide if this could be the right move for you. To take up this offer you should reside in the DMBC area.  

For more information about starting your own business come along to our free Workshop Session for beginners!!

We will focus on:

• What your strengths are and how you might be able to use them by working for yourself
• What you have to do to ‘officially’ start ‘trading’
• How to start looking for customers, finance and premises

To book your FREE place call PRIME on: 0800 783 1904

Date: Monday 23 March 2009

Time: 10am - 1pm

Venue: The Circle, Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4FW

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 31 March 2009

Time: 5pm -7pm

Venue: The Circle, Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4FW

Status: PRIME Business Club event

 ‘A good website will make money not cost money’

 Do I need one?

What do I put on it?

How much will it cost?

How do I get one?

Do I need to understand how it works and how to change it?

Mike Teare from Abbeydale Associates will guide you smoothly through getting your business on to the World Wide Web. This session is also useful for anyone with a website who wants to check if it’s working effectively. This is a FREE event.

“We’re not spotty geeks!

We’re not prima donna designers!

You’ll get sound advice from plain-speaking Yorkshiremen

We’re highly recommended - ask any of our clients”

Abbeydale Associates

www.abbeydale.net

To book your free place telephone 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

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Date: Monday 23 March 2009

Time: 5pm -7pm

Venue: The Circle, Rockingham Lane, Sheffield, S1 4FW

Status: PRIME Business Club event

‘Let’s talk finance’   

An opportunity to spend the evening with three knowledgeable speakers and ask them questions on the topic of finance and tax. This is a FREE event.

Lee Siddall is a Business Specialist for HSBC, he will talk about account opening, savings, business insurance, lending (commercial credit cards, loans, overdrafts), external lending options as well as business plans and cash flow forecasts.

There will be a selection of brochures and copies of business plans and forecasts to take away.

Neil Flowers is one of the Financial Planners at the HSBC city centre branch, and his role covers a host of different products such as investments, protection (both personal and business), pensions and wills, which he will discuss and answer any questions about.

Cynthia Chamberlain is a Business Advisor for HMRC, she will give a presentation entitled ‘thinking of working for yourself’. The presentation will cover:

• How to register as self employed
• National Insurance
• Tax allowances and rates
• Record keeping
• Tax returns
• Payment of tax/NIC
• Employing someone

You will also be given details of where you can get free help to give you the confidence to get your tax right first time.

To book your place telephone 0800 783 1904 or email prime@ace.org.uk

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Date: Thursday 26th February 2009

Time: 5:15pm - 7:30pm

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

Status: PRIME event

Confidence and motivation for business
Facilitator
Pat Carr
From 360 Degree People a Coaching and People Development Company
http://www.360degreepeople.co.uk/

Some days you may feel more confident than others about starting your business or finding new customers. This session will help you to say “yes I can” and give you tools and techniques to stay motivated and confident in what you’re doing. Pat Carr is an experienced coach, trainer and consultant who set up her own business in her 40s and has enjoyed great success. She is looking forward to working with PRIME and unlocking the potential of everyone who attends the session.

For more information and to book your place please contact Sara Robinson on 07833178682 alternatively book via the PRIME central office on 0800 783 1904. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
email prime@ace.org.uk

PRIME has other free workshops coming up for anyone who is over 50 and thinking about becoming self-employed or starting a business in Sheffield.

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PRIME is currently working with Success Doncaster to help you assess your idea and decide if this could be the right move for you. To take up this offer you should reside in the DMBC area.  

For more information about starting your own business come along to our free Workshop Session for beginners!!

We will focus on:

• What your strengths are and how you might be able to use them by working for yourself
• What you have to do to ‘officially’ start ‘ trading’
• How to start looking for customers, finance and premises

To book your FREE place call PRIME on: 0800 783 1904

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 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: Tuesday 18 Nov 2008

Time: 9.30am to 4:30pm

Venue: Poundland, Airedale Shopping Centre, Keighley, BD21 3QQ

Status: PRIME recommended event

Enterprise event providing free information and refreshments, with the option of booking a business advice meeting. Relevant for Pre-starts with concerns of raising finance. Over 50s welcome.

For more information, please contact Mr Rav Panesar on 01535 607 775 or rav@airedaleenterprise.org.uk

Date: Friday 21 Nov 2008

Time: 10.00am to 1.00pm

Venue: The Workstation, Paternoster Row Sheffield, S1 2BX

Status: PRIME event

This free event explores the issues surrounding starting up in business, and is especially aimed at those over 50.

Topics covered include:

Is self-employment right for you?
Finding the right business idea
What sources of help are available.

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

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Date: Wednesday 19 Nov 2008

Time: 4.00pm to 6.30pm

Venue: Meet at The Workstation, Paternoster Row Sheffield, S1 2BX, followed by short walk to The Cube 189 Shoreham Street, Sheffield, S1 4QU

Status: PRIME event

Business Club aimed especially at those over 50.

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

Travel directions and map (PDF)

STOP PRESS: APPLICATIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.

PRIME is hiring. We are looking for someone to get a new project going for us in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. You will be responsible for the delivery of PRIME’s programme in the Doncaster area. A self-starter with strong organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, you will organise and deliver pre-enterprise workshops, provide one-to-one support to clients and run a peer-to-peer business club. Experience of the business advice sector is important.

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

Application form

Job description

Please note that only applications on our application form will be accepted. This post is funded initially through to 31st March 2010 and is based in Doncaster.

Closing date: Friday 16 May 2008
Interviews: (to be held in Doncaster): Tuesday 27 May 2008.