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Business creation

Theme C partnerships focus on business creation and cover a wide range of support and materials for entrepreneurs and those providing support for business creation. Examples of work covered include training and support for disadvantaged and under-represented groups, support for women entrepreneurs, and access to finance. Products include mentoring websites, research into business creation amongst excluded groups, case studies, materials and guides for mentors, DVD and CD materials, handbooks and qualifications.

Further information:

• ECOTEC Thematic update paper: Theme C
• Theme C mainstreaming stategy

Audio Visual Entrepreneurship Background  Skillset, in partnership with the UK Film Council, is leading the Audio Visual Entrepreneurship Development Partnership under the second round of Equal, the European Social Fund initiative designed to test and promote new means of combating all forms of discrimination and inequality in the labour market.

AWE - Accelerating Women’s Enterprise Aim The Accelerating Women's Enterprise Development Partnership (AWE) brought together a number of leading agencies in women's enterprise development, spanning the English regions. Projects (5), products (11)

BASEC - Birmingham and Solihull Entrepreneurship Consortium “BASEC represents a sub regional network of stakeholders working with transnational partners to deliver the vision of creating a sustainable entrepreneurial economy in Birmingham and Solihull, by encouraging enterprise in disadvantaged communities through an innovative stakeholder model”. Projects (2), products (2)

Business Creation Partnership Background The Business Creation Partnership was created to address the problems and overcome the barriers that disadvantaged groups in Northamptonshire face in seeking employment. Projects (3), products (2)

Business Mentoring: An EQUAL Partnership Aim The purpose of the DP was to develop, pilot and disseminate several models of good practice for volunteer business mentoring, applicable to business start-up initiatives in different cultural, environmental and economic situations.

Celebrating Enterprise Background The rationale for Celebrating Enterprise is rooted in the notion that participation in creative activities can empower individuals from socially excluded groups. Projects (7), products (6)

CREATE + - Creating Equal Access to Enterprise - Round 1 led by Exemplas Aim The aim of the CREATE development partnership was to encourage people from disadvantaged groups to consider self-employment, using structured business formats (SBFs) such as franchising, licensing and agency distribution agreements as business models.

CREATE Round 2 Description CREATE is a unique partnership  of national business support organisations who have joined together to help people who are considering self-employment, particularly through franchising. Projects (1)

Cyfenter 1 (2001-2005) Aim The aim of the Cyfenter Development Partnership was to influence and develop mainstream business support policies and practices within pre-start and enterprise support for excluded groups of entrepreneurs which would enable them to start up new enterprises. Projects (2), products (1)

Cyfenter 2 (2005 - 2007) Background Half of all businesses starting up in Wales fail within five years and many new enterprises encounter difficulties which are specific to gender, age, disability, language, and ethnic differences. Projects (2), products (4)

Equal Enterprise Scotland Background Promoting enterprise, innovation and productivity is a central objective for both the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales. Projects (1), products (2)

Euro Enterprise Evolutions Background The lead body, Breathing Space, works to help the disadvantaged or socially excluded to overcome barriers, to progress in their lives and to re-connect with the world of work, training or education. Projects (5), products (18)

Icons Background New business creation is a key indicator for the health of the Scottish economy and a key determinant of business longevity and sustainable economic development. Projects (7), products (16)

IMPACT Changing Directions - Innovation Means Prisons And Communities Together Background There is a recognition that encouraging companies to employ ex-offenders with sex-related convictions is a difficult task, with concerns about the risk, type and location of work often being expressed by employers and the public. Projects (5), products (5)

LIPA CAMEO - Coaching & Mentoring for Empowerment and Opportunity Aim CAMEO stands for Coaching and Mentoring for Empowerment and Opportunity.

Minority Businesses - Diaspora Interchange Background The UK Trade and Investment body has acknowledged the need for the UK to tap into the diversity of minority owned business and exploit their connections with countries of origin such as India and China. Projects (3), products (5)

Partnership for Innovation and Enterprise Aim The aim of the Partnership for Innovation and Enterprise DP was to develop inclusive and innovative models, materials and methodologies to assist individuals in accessing business creation opportunities, complementing the Scottish Business Birthrate Strategy. The rationale for this DP was research based. Projects (6), products (1)

REFLEX - Re-generating Enterprise through Facilitating Local Economic Exchange Aim The aim of the REFLEX DP was to offer practical and innovative solutions to build the capacity of local community organisations to engage in and deliver business advice.

Retail Enterprise Network Aim The aim of the Retail Enterprise DP was to develop ways of protecting and widening diversity for SME retailers who were under threat from large multiples and changing consumer patters within the retail sector (including e-commerce and retail services). Objectives The main objectives of the project were to: Create an observatory of research amongst small retailers. Research the training needs of small retai. Projects (3), products (9)

SIED - Supporting Inclusion in Enterprise Development Background It is widely acknowledged that barriers exist for policy makers and mainstream business support services when engaging with excluded communities living in areas of deprivation. Projects (7), products (22)