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Introducing Sam Eve

Hello, I am the Regional Coorindator for the Central Region.  My job is to help you get your business started by acting as a sounding board for your ideas and concerns.  I will do whatever I can to help you find the right resources you need to get your business off the ground.  So if you’re banging your head against a brick wall, don’t be shy, pick up the phone or drop me an email and find out how I can help. Tel: 07738 034 115.  Email: sam.eve@lcdisability.org


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BT competition

BT Offers Ringing Endorsement

Up and coming entrepreneurs can take their ideas to the next level by winning a new £10,000 business development competition.

To mark the recent Small Business Week 2008 (13-20 October), BT Business - a branch of British Telecom – has launched a UK-wide search for the most inspiring start-up venture or innovative idea for a new product.

The BT Business Grant contest offers a £10,000 first prize to the contestant who is judged to be either:

  • An entrepreneur with the best idea for a new start-up business.

Or

  • An established business with an innovative idea for launching a new product or expanding into a new market.

Urging firms to enter the competition, BT Business managing director Bill Murphy said:

“The entrepreneurial spirit is so important for the UK economy and we at BT Business feel it’s vital to support the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing opportunities like this.”

Entries must be made online at the BT Business website by 31 December. Five finalists will be invited to attend an interview in London during January to discuss their ideas in greater detail, with the one lucky winner set to be announced on 28 February.

For more details on the contest and to enter before the 31 December closing date, visit the BT Business website (opens a new window)


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Bank of Scotland Social Awards

 

 

Bank of Scotland Social Entrepreneur Awards, in association with The Sunday Times, are the first of their kind and an exciting development of our long-standing commitment to social entrepreneurship in the communities we serve.

They want to recognise – and reward – the UK’s two most exciting established social entrepreneurs, and will be awarding one recipient up to £5 million interest free funding for 3 years or a cash donation of up to £500,000, and a second up to £1 million funding interest free for 3 years or a donation of up to £100,000 cash.

 

CLOSING DATES
FOR ENTRIES
February 23rd 2009

JUDGING BEGINS
February 2009

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
June 2009

 

 

 

 

You can apply online now at www.bossocialawards.co.uk

or call 0845 603 2672

 

 

 


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Make a Wave Awards - Tight Deadline

The Oguntê - UnLtd - Make A Wave Award is a ‘kickstart and thinking” scheme (worth up to £1000 in a combination of grant and training) made to women in the UK who can show that a very small amount of money, paired up with a resourceful brain, can be used to make a difference.
 
So, if you are an aspiring female social leader, if you haven’t had the opportunity to shine yet and would like to pilot your project or your campaign, please apply!
 
We are looking for ideas that fit with the values of UnLtd’s mission to reach out and unleash the energies of people who can transform the world in which they live. UnLtd call these people social entrepreneurs.   Your ideas need to be aligned with Oguntê’s Women in Social Leadership vision: inspiration, entrepreneurship, networking, confidence, and sustainability.
 
DOWNLOAD Guidelines and Application forms
http://ogunte.com/innovation/index.php/new:-make-a-wave-award

APPLICATIONS TIMELINE
 
Submit your application no later than Friday 12th December 2008. NOON (12pm GMT) Successful awardees will be notified by the end of January 2009


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