As the only national business support organisation, NFEA is well placed to comment on a wide range of business support topics and issues. In this dedicated blog, we’ll share thoughts from our travels, shout about NFEA activity and feedback on discussions and issues within the sector. And we’d love your thoughts too – you can respond back to any of our posts through the site.
You can also visit our news area here for up to date stories on NFEA activity.
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Friday 27 November 2009 by Hayley Williams
We'd like to congratulate NFEA North East member the PNE Group for its recent efforts in hosting a delegation of senior managers from social enterprises across Europe. The group visited Newcastle to mark the start of a project which aims to strengthen third sector organisations in five EU countries.
PNE will ...
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Tuesday 24 November 2009 by George Derbyshire
Emma Jones, currently a co-opted member of the NFEA Board runs Enterprise Nation and is a great champion of home based businesses. At her Conference last week she released her latest research findings highlighting that over 2.8 million businesses are based in the home -and it's a growing sector. Business ...
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Wednesday 18 November 2009 by George Derbyshire
...but I got cross last night.
I was at a Global Entrepreneurship Week event put on by the Associate Parliamentary Group for Business and Finance. They staged a panel debate with five successful young entrepreneurs, including Jay Bregman, of eCourier and Natasha Faith of La Diosa; a designer jewellery company, both ...
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Monday 16 November 2009 by George Derbyshire
Let me relate two interesting and contrasting experiences, both drawn from my personal life in recent weeks.
Item 1.I noticed a problem on my account with...well let's just say a large national organisation. And I got it sorted out. 3 e-mails, 4 letters, numerous phone calls and ten weeks later.
Item 2. ...
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Friday 13 November 2009 by George Derbyshire
Interesting meeting of ACT in the East of England on Wednesday. A good cross-section in the audience- business angels, business advisers, IIP practitioners, HMRC, Business Link.
Principal guest and speaker was Lyn Morgan, Director of Enterprise at EEDA who spoke in a frank way not only about all they were doing ...
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