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Unlocking Enterprise — Understanding the Benefits, Impact and Value of Enterprise Learning & Training in Prisons To download the report click here! SFEDI and the Institute for Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE) have just released their research report on enterprise education within prisons. The report follows extensive research into how enterprise education helps offenders reintegrate into […]

Self-confidence is something that’s an assumed trait of an entrepreneur. But not everyone can feel confident all the time. Here’s a few tips to help you gain gradual confidence that won’t be knocked in a hurry. Set your sights You should be setting yourself goals to ensue you know where your heading. This way, you […]

4,197 companies became insolvent between January and March this year, while 484,000 UK businesses are in significant financial distress, often a prewarning of insolvency. The Insolvency Service has reported that construction, administration and retail were the worst affected financially from the impacts of higher wages and pension auto-enrolment costs. Mike Cherry, chairman of the Federation […]

1. It gets lonely at times! Until you get around to employing other people, business owners are on their own. Don’t be disheartened when friends and family don’t demonstrate the same enthusiasm for your enterprise as you do, you need to prove your company’s value and worth to get even the closest people to you […]

Create a routine Routines can make us much more productive in the long run. Even if it takes you time to get into your new routine, if it’s well thought out and provides you with realistic daily opportunities to achieve the tasks you need to, a routine is the way forward. Keep the mornings for […]

In the UK, we have one of the worst records for levels of female entrepreneurs. Alison Rose, CEO of Natwest’s Commercial and Private Banking has reviewed the situation and encouraged some realistic solutions to enhance the UK’s support and funding for female entrepreneurs. Firstly, advancing female entrepreneurship represents a £250 Billion opportunity for the UK […]

 In 2015 The Ministry of Justices’ Dame Sally Coats said, “If education is the engine of social mobility, it is also the engine of prisoner rehabilitation.” but just how effective is educating our prisoners? There are pros and cons to educating our prisoners. Many argue that it costs the Government too much of the tax […]

Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain has gone into administration. It most likely comes as no real surprise to Oliver going on an interview he gave to the Financial Times under a year ago when his company first started to experience some issues. “We had simply run out of cash” he said, referring to the end of […]

With 47% of the UK’s workforce being women, it would seem that there isn’t really any need to balance out the gender roles in our country. That being said, the gender gap still remains evident. For example, in the main occupational groups, the gap is 4.8% and in the skilled trades occupations it is up […]

Mentoring in the UK can sometimes be seen as a British predicament. It’s thought that the UK aren’t very good at utilising our resources when it comes to mentoring and there are few who know why. Maybe it’s because we Brits are inclined to feel like we would be imposing on someone when asking them […]

IOEE Academy Natwest is prepping up for this year’s Great British Entrepreneur Awards and they’re looking for specifically entrepreneurs from the North East. Categories range from the Entrepreneur for Good Award, Scale-Up Awards, Health & Beauty Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Entrepreneurs’ Team of the Year Award and so on. Founded in 2013, the NatWest […]

It is Mental Health Awareness Week and we’re looking at different perspectives on mental health. Over the last few years, mental health and the encouragement of mental health has become more prominent within our society. Apparently, entrepreneurs are more susceptible to poor mental health and here’s the reasons why… STRESS This might seem a little […]

The Mental Health Charity Mind have expressed their concerns over people who work from home becoming lonely and isolated and with 50% of the UK’s workforce predicted to be home-workers by 2020. These concerns arise as Work Wise Week sweeps across the UK and National Work from Home Day lands on the Friday 17th May. […]

Next Friday sees National Work from Home Day sweep across the UK as part of Work Wise Week, a non-profit campaign encouraging employers and employees to share with the world the benefits and methods to work from home successfully. It’s been predicted that by 2020, 50% of the UK’s workforce will be working from home […]

The IOEE has opened a new office in the North East, just outside of Newcastle, to house its digital operations. The office is based at Space@, a collaborative hub for small businesses at the coast in Whitley Bay. The new office will be home to the current digital team as well as two new digital […]

We’ve taken a look at the mentoring relationship between Stephen who is team leader of the risk coaching & team training team at Barclays and Caren who was was looking for mentor support for her business through our Mentoring Programme. In April 2018 Stephen Wright from Barclays Bank was put in touch with Paul Harper […]

The month of March saw International Women’s Day 2019 celebrated and IOEE Centre of Excellence the University of South Wales held a partnership event called “It’s About Time!”. The event involved well over 100 women who own businesses in South Wales and was based on ongoing research with women who are entrepreneurs and mothers with a […]

We speak to IOEE Fellow Raj Burman this month to get an insight into some of the fantastic work Raj is currently involved with and some of the reasons he felt it important to become an IOEE Fellow. This month we’re looking at some of the brilliant work IOEE Fellow Raj Burman is involved with. […]

Back in early December we were thrilled to be attending the International Association of Bookeepers Awards 2018 as a sponsor! The event itself being help in the Terrace Room overlooking the Thames, first to the stage was Fabian Hamilton MP, as praised the work of the IAB, its professional members, students and centres around the […]

A new national apprenticeship campaign is now live: ‘Fire It Up’ will help raise awareness of the huge variety of apprenticeship options available for people of all ages and backgrounds and the positive impact they can have for apprentices and employers. The new campaign includes national TV and social media adverts, and a new website […]

If it hasn’t already been on your to-do list then it definitely should be by now! Believe it or not it’s now less than 90 days until the first phase of the new Making Tax Digital (MTD) legislation comes into effect for VAT. MTD will come into effect on Monday, April 1st, 2019 meaning that […]

The UK is due to leave the EU at 23.00 GMT on Friday 29 March, 2019. This date can be extended if the UK and all EU members agree, but it remains the key milestone and has been put into British Law. In the time leading up to this date, the UK and EU continue […]

London South Bank University, in partnership with the Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN), played host to a symposium on the theme of ‘popularising science in Africa’ on Saturday 8 December. Renowned physicist, Professor Brian Cox (pictured above left, with student Sohail Jassemi Moosavi) gave the keynote address, in which he spoke about his involvement in […]

Otherboard is a company that champions creativity, providing creative management advice for people running creative organisations, based on the wealth of knowledge and experience of its founder and CEO, IOEE Member Louisa Pau. Louisa has ‘been there and done that’, forming Otherboard so she could pass on everything she learnt from setting up her own […]