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Financial Times Eric Pickles and Vince Cable are seeking to calm business fears that local enterprise partnerships (Leps) will be a fragmented patchwork of council-dominated talking shops, as almost 50 bids to set up the economic development bodies around England are lodged. Business groups fear that many proposed partnerships, due to replace Labour’s eight [...] 220 Businesses in Oxfordshire responded to the OEP Survey – the results are shown below 1. How concerned are you about falling standards in public service? 2. How important is it for businesses to have a voice in the running of our communities? 3. What is the best way that businesses can be represented? 4. How confident are you in [...] The Government is proposing the establishment of new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) as a key driver for their policy to shift towards a private sector led economy. In Oxfordshire the Economic Partnership (OEP) provides an off the shelf model for such a partnership. Already chaired by a prominent local business man and with a Board composed [...] [...] Philippa Batting has been appointed Managing Director of Oxfordshire based Ngage Solutions Ltd.
Ngage Solutions is a not-for-profit organisation that provides funding acquisition, project management and back office solutions such as IT, Marketing and Finance for other not-for-profit companies. Ngage has been providing business support since 2001 and currently delivers numerous publicly funded projects across the UK [...] In a climate of cuts in public service, investment in training and skills should be focused on high growth business sectors and should start as early as primary school. That’s the message coming from a new report called The Oxfordshire Workplace Learning Model, which is being launched at SkillsFest 2010 on June 29 (Tuesday). The report is [...] Take the opportunity at SkillsFest 2010 to hear an inspirational adventurer and leader talk about her experiences and how she can help you and your organisation. For the last 8 years across 3 continents Rona has been motivating businesses and individuals to get out of their comfort zone and reach their potential. Once an unexceptional, middle-aged single [...] We are still accepting registrations for SkillsFest 2010, a great free event for local employers and employees to find out more about learning and skills providers in the county. MD2MD are also offering free one to one business mentoring sessions, book using the form below. The registration form for our excellent program of seminars can be downloaded by clicking [...] The European Social Fund will provide up to 1,025 Apprenticeship Grants to employers in the South East to employ apprentices aged 16 – 24 years. The value of the Grant will be £1,500 and is to encourage employers to take on unemployed 16 – 24 year olds as apprentices. Which employers can benefit from the AGE 16 [...] Thinking about setting up a company? Then attend this new innovation event in June. Building a Business – Research to Revenue Why not go to Begbroke Science park on June 17th for a day of expert coaching on starting a technology based business? Speakers at the event are all experts in setting up, networking with, or funding start up companies. If you are [...] Stuart Miller (CEO of Bybox and one of two non executive Directors of the newly formed Oxfordshire Innovation and Growth Team) will be guest speaker at the next SVUK Business Breakfast at Grove Technology Park on 9 June. There will also be a number of other speakers with a theme around Skills for the Science [...] 29 June 2010, The Kassam Stadium, Oxford
SkillsFest 2010 is proudly sponsored by Richardsons Chartered Accountants and Jack fm On the day you can receive free training taster sessions – why not book your staff on to one or more of these one hour [...] The 2010 Queen’s Award for Enterprise Oxfordshire winners have been announced, once again these have identified some great innovation and inventiveness in the county. The Queen’s Award for Enterprise – Innovation winners are Concateno, Abingdon, Detection devices for drugs abuse The new Wallingford Enterprise Hub is unique in the area and aims to help local micro-businesses & start ups. David Bosley, local entrepreneur & founder, has run his own successful business from home for 3 years but missed the social interaction & buzz of conventional workplaces. The Hub is offering a free weekly drop-in centre for [...] Sustainable Routes is an exciting project that assists businesses reduce the cost of business travel for small to medium enterprises. It’s a fact that by making clever travel decisions, businesses can save money, improve profitability and become more efficient. The project has 3 main goals: • To focus your business on travel and on improved travel choices Infocene have put together a suite of Cloud Computing solutions to help businesses be more efficient, reduce cost and reduce carbon footprint. They have recently been advised that their services qualify for Sustainable Routes funding to help with the cost. They now have a complete suite of solutions that enable businesses not only work from home [...] Monday March 15th sees the start of British Tourism Week and there is a fantastic event being held at Heythrop Park Resort, Enstone OX7 5UE from 10.30am – 3.00pm. This is your chance to get new season’s promotional literature from dozens of attractions in Oxfordshire, do some networking and even enter a competition to win one of [...] Location Oxfordshire – the new service for film, television and photographic industries is now live. They can provide information and advice and offer a growing database of locations and film friendly services. To input Oxfordshire locations or services, to discover the latest film trails or just find out a little more about the new film office, [...] Oxfordshire Connections Networking Event @ Blenheim Palace, Woodstock Joining us for this evening offers you the opportunity to meet other high calibre business delegates, openly network in a relaxed and friendly environment, build strong business relationships and gain valuable information about the issues that most affect your business. Speaker – Bernie De Souza |
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