OPPORTUNITY GUIDE Providing business support and advice for the people January 2020 / Issue 4 of . Helping you reach your goals.

BOOST your skills in 2020 Page 4 & 5

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We are constantly looking at Welcome different opportunities available for individuals getting into business, or local organisations. Happy New Year and welcome to the new If you think you can offer something look of the Enterprising Wellingborough to the local business community Business Newsletter, now called the then please get in touch. It may be a Opportunity Guide. programme or initiative that can help We’ve listened to feedback provided businesses add value, or even if you and given our guide an upgrade. We want are a local accountant, designer or to provide you with useful information and business facing company that can opportunities that will help you thrive with offer your paid services to other local pride in the borough. businesses.

Enterprising Wellingborough is a free Want to get involved? Let’s have signposting support initiative, set up by a chat, contact us today for more the Borough Council of Wellingborough. It information: is set up for our local businesses and we are working to build our partner network to ensure you can take advantage of 01933 231 983 every opportunity that is available to your organisation.

If you are a local business or you are looking [email protected] at starting one and you require:

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2 Internships to boost recruitment in the region The University of is running an exciting programme to help firms solve challenging recruitment problems by accessing a skilled graduate workforce.

Time2Grow is a multi-million pound before you buy’ opportunity if a business is EU funded programme which provides looking to recruit.” businesses with a graduate for 280 hours Time2Grow, is delivered by the University over a 10-week period. of Northampton and the University of The internships are designed to enable , pay 60% of the cost and will SMEs to tap into a driven graduate talent invoice the business for the remaining 40%. pool, that is keen to deliver a positive impact This equates to the business only paying to that busines 2Grow, Janice Watkins said: £5.29 plus VAT per hour for the graduate. The Universities will advertise, shortlist and “University graduates come with a range of pay the graduate. skills and benefits that can help businesses reach that next level. They are keen to prove The scheme is open to businesses in themselves and to progress and want to , Bedfordshire, Milton make sure they are delivering above and Keynes and Aylesbury Vale. beyond expectations. The internships will be part-funded, to help businesses to penetrate new markets, For more information visit: deliver new products or find new efficiency www.time2grow.org.uk improvements. This could well be a ‘try

3 Funded training to help your business progress Skills Support for the Workforce in Northamptonshire – Funded Training to Help your Business Progress Skills Support for the Workforce (SSW) is a programme developed to upskill employees within small and medium-sized businesses in Northamptonshire.

Businesses can benefit from: £ • A training needs analysis for your business, • Learning pathways for your employees identifying the skills you need to support enabling them to progress within your business ambitions your organisation onto higher level qualifications or apprenticeships • Flexible training – pick full qualifications or mix and match individual units to suit your • Recognised accredited qualifications business and training courses to enhance your employees’ skills • On-the-job vocational training to meet individual and business needs including For more information visit: taught learning, workplace assessment, serco-ese.com/skills-support-for-the distance learning and online learning -workforce/regions/northamptonshire

Delivered by Co-financed by

SSW is co-financed by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and the European Social Fund. This means you can access a wide range of training at no cost* to your business. *subject to eligibility.

4 A £10 millon new look campus

Tresham College has been Northamptonshire to provide a wide range of full and part time courses in vocational working alongside the Borough subjects. The new campus in the centre of Council of Wellingborough to carry Wellingborough will enable up to 1000 students to complete their studies in the town from out a £10m redevelopment at it’s school leaver level up to higher education and site on Street within the degree level. centre of the town. In additional to traditional further education, Tresham College also provides a range Tresham College also operates the National of tailored professional training solutions, College for Motorsport located at the heart of vocational courses and apprenticeships that British motor racing, Silverstone circuit. span a diverse spectrum of professions and In it’s most recent Ofsted report published industries. in November 2019, The Group was graded as Good across all areas inspected for its provision. The Group has over 15,000 part time and full time students and strives to deliver the highest quality teaching and learning experience for all students and staff. As part of its commitment to providing high quality learning environments, Tresham College has been working alongside the Borough Council of Wellingborough to carry out a £10m redevelopment at it’s site on Church Street within the centre of the town. For more information visit: The new look campus in Wellingborough www.tresham.ac.uk will enhance the course offer across

5 Promoting and protecting businesses in our region

At an Extraordinary sectors and helping to ensure more collaborative framework General Meeting of the that business voices are for those businesses. Executive Committee of the heard. As local government evolves Wellingborough Chamber of The decision was taken into a larger hegemony, the Commerce on Tuesday, 29th in a bid to further improve Chamber wants to try and October, it was unanimously the close links between ensure that the brilliantly voted to “promote and Wellingborough and East successful businesses within protect” businesses in businesses the region have a platform Northamptonshire and ahead of plans to create the from which to challenge and the surrounding villages unitary authority proposed influence the renewed political as well as the Borough of to combine Councils in landscape. However Brexit Wellingborough. Wellingborough, East and Local Authority unification The resolution means that Northants, and unfolds, it’s inevitable that businesses throughout East . change will come and the Northants, including , new ‘Wellingborough & President of the , , East Northants Chamber of Wellingborough Chamber of Kingscliffe and , Commerce’ will work to ensure Commerce, Simon Toseland, can now join the combined that business interests are said: chamber of Commerce and not overlooked or under- benefit from the services “With the close links between represented.” offered through membership Wellingborough and East including working with other Northamptonshire businesses local businesses, lobbying and the prospect the local For more information visit: local or central government, authorities forming a unitary www.wencc.co.uk championing links between authority in 2021, the the business and education Chamber wants to provide a

6 Want to talk about business opportunities?

Contact Enterprising Wellingborough, and we’ll do our best to connect you to an opportunity that would be beneficial, or we can discuss options with you. Have a 1:1 chat with our Economic Development and Delivery Officer, James Murray or find out more by getting in touch:

01933 231 983

See our support partners on the back page. Any information you provide [email protected] will be stored on a secure database and used by Enterprising Wellingborough and the Borough Council For more information visit: of Wellingborough, wellingborough.gov.uk/enterprisingwboro www.wencc.co.uk dependant on various economic, regeneration and development factors for organisation and the economy of the Borough of Wellingborough.

7 SUPPORT PARTNERS

Take a look at our support partners and find out what they can offer:

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