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Small businesses to get free access to public sector contracts
A free trial starts today to provide small and medium sized businesses with access to thousands of public sector contract opportunities.
How to beat late payments
To help SMEs in their fight, Bacs has produced five handy hints that every business owner should consider:
National Excellence Award for Centre for Women's Enterprise
The Centre for Women’s Enterprise (CWE) at the University of Bedfordshire has won a national award from one of the UK’s largest network organisations for businesswomen.
An opportunity to hear from successful entrepeuner Sarah McVittie
Sarah McVittie, CEO, and founder of Texperts will be talking to GEIF about how she developed her initial idea for Texperts, an informative texting service to mobile telephone users, into a fundable proposition and then how she courted and won…
Phd students win UEA Business Concepts Competition
An innovative new hair care product has won University of East Anglia's 2008 Business Concepts Competition. Kate Thodey and Rita Lei, Phd students from the Norwich Research Park, whose company Polarelle won top prize worth £8,500 beating off competition from…
The Government's new Enterprise Strategy
We think it's better than the budget!
Read all the extracts about women's enterprise here....there's lots of it - skills, mentoring, children's centres, investment funds and more!
Budget 2008 - Was it good for you?
In his first budget day speech, the Chancellor, Alistair Darling has announced funding to encourage women entrepreneurs, a reduction in the level of corporation tax and simplified tax laws for small companies.
Change in Law - Company Secretary will be voluntary in private companies
From 6th April 2008 the position of Company Secretary will become voluntary in all private companies, including large private companies and private companies that are subsidiaries of public companies.
Win £100 M&S vouchers - Can you help Oxford Economic Observatory with this survey?
The Oxford Economic Observatory at the University of Oxford is carrying out a study of business networks across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc.
Are you ready to takeITon?
A major initiative to help boost the productivity of businesses in the region through improved use of IT has been launched today by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA).
