March 2017
Douglas (Dougi) Bryce of JudoScotland, had participated in a sportscotland development programme for senior post holders within Scottish Governing Bodies of Sport (SGB). The option to access a mentor through the Chamber of Commerce was an attractive follow-on to complement the programme and potentially add some value from a different perspective.
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March 2017
Ian set up on his own as a Chartered Architectural Technologist having worked previously for other firms delivering projects to an agreed brief. Ian recognised that he faced a number of challenges including how to create business systems for administration, contract administration processes, marketing approaches and promotion of his services to prospective clients.
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June 2016
Kash Bhagwat-Brown explains why he is involved with mentoring.
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June 2016
HouseSitMatch owner, Lamia Walker and her mentor, Kash Bhagwat-Brown explain how the FSE Mentoring Programme has benefitted them both.
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April 2016
Young entrepreneur Kyle Raffo has seen the creative agency he set up as a teenager reach a landmark 10,000 customers.
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March 2016
The IOEE's member base is incredibly diverse, with people from all walks of life signed-up to enjoy the privilege, services and benefits associated with it.
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March 2016
Nichola English is the Wardrobe Provocateur. Newcastle-based Nichola's unique business combines style insights, sartorial advice and one-to-one life coaching.
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March 2016
Michelle Smith and her business partner Tina Churchill are both registered nurses with a wealth of experience in palliative care. They set up their business, Who Supports You, earlier this year.
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March 2016
Lynn Colledge, who became an HR professional in 1990, worked her way up to achieve her driving ambition to be an HR Director in 2005
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March 2016
Jyoti Sheath, a 32-year-old Londoner with over a decade's experience of working in fashion, is currently preparing to go it alone in the industry.
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March 2016
“Ultimately, I want to be the market leader. That’s my big ambition”
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March 2016
Christine Bewley, MD of Aycliffe Fabrications, was one of three business owners invited to meet with the Cabinet Office recently when they visited the SFEDI and IOEE offices in County Durham.
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December 2015
Taking time out may seem a pipe dream for many small business owners. But working with a mentor to achieve a better work-life balance has helped Paul Walters plot a clear path to success for Stafford Industrial Supplies.
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July 2015
“Be you, but be the best of you” was the key message from Levi Roots at a special Let’s Do Mentoring event.
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July 2015
Ben Jones (left) heads up the Edinburgh, Lothian and Borders franchise of Furniture Medic – specialists in re-upholstering furniture for commercial clients.
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June 2015
Scottish Chambers of Commerce in partnership with the British Bankers' Association (BBA), provide a mentoring service to growing businesses in Scotland, where business leaders are mentored by experienced and skilled professionals from the banking industry.
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June 2015
Small Steps Day Nursery has taken huge leaps forward on the road to success with the support of Let’s Do Mentoring.
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June 2015
“a fabulous, generous, informative event full of intelligent, serious & committed business women”
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March 2015
A new London-based personal development and wellbeing start-up is expanding rapidly and recruiting new IT and marketing teams, following enterprise mentoring support from Lloyds Bank.
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March 2015
Two ambitious South West businesses are expanding rapidly and boosting their operations following enterprise mentoring support from Lloyds Bank.
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January 2015
Selling beer is a passion for Will and Gill Sherwin.
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January 2015
Through the continued gathering of evidence of its impact, Business Mentoring Scotland has been shown to massively benefit mentees that join up to be mentored.
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January 2015
Business Mentoring Scotland is a business growth tool delivered by Scottish Chambers of Commerce in partnership with Scottish Enterprise and is provided at zero cost to mentored businesses.
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January 2015
Interviews with successful entrepreneurs inform us that at some stage of their development, most have sought out a mentor.
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January 2015
One of the Lake District’s most popular confectionary shops is growing rapidly and expanding its offering following enterprise mentoring support.
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December 2014
From unorthodox beginnings as a digital music collective, biTjAM has evolved into an innovative technology business.
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December 2014
A social enterprise in East Ayshire that provides work experience and training opportunities to disadvantaged groups, will be expanding following the support of enterprise mentoring from Bank of Scotland.
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December 2014
Launched in February 2013, REALRIDER® is an industry-first online platform with a route recording and safety-based app for motorcyclists; the first of its kind to detect if a rider has had a crash and notify the NHS, who can send an ambulance to the rider's last known GPS location. Co founder Zoe Farrington is the key driver and CEO of the business.
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December 2014
Inspired by the legend of Vikings foraging on the North East coast cliffs for Rhodiola Rosea, Dunnet Bay Distillers was founded in 2013 by Martin and Claire Murray, and in the summer of 2014 they plan to bring to market their unique new botanical flavored spirit - Rock Rose Gin.
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December 2014
Heather Arni, shown above, is chief executive of Edinburgh based homelessness charity Four Square.
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November 2014
Not enough time to walk your dog? Let Bessacarr Dog Walking do it for you..
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November 2014
Al Conroy is owner of Freeze Pro Shop, an Edinburgh based independent retailer that provides outdoor sportswear, specialising in ski-ing, snowboarding, and surfing.
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October 2014
A commercial and domestic laundry is building a bright future with the help of a business mentor.
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September 2014
Young entrepreneur Alastair Machin is growing his storage and shredding business with the help of guidance from an experienced mentor.
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August 2014
Mentoring began between mentor Grant Eckersley and Malcolm Rennie of Rennie Fabrication in early 2013. Malcolm Rennie founded his Moray based steel fabrication business in 2002 after a career spent mainly as a trained mechanical engineer in the oil and gas industry. Rennie Fabrication offer domestic and commercial manufactured steel products, ranging from garden gates and street lamps to stainless steel pipe work for use in distilleries and the bio mass heating industry.
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August 2014
Gael Holiday Homes is a web based business providing high quality holiday home and self - catering accommodation on a rental basis, started by husband and wife duo Les and Sheila Robinson in 2007, initially as a property management company but quickly growing to include rental bookings - now the business’ primary focus.
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August 2014
Border Crossing Media help companies design digital products and services for people. The business was founded in 2006 and specialises in user experience design and web development. The directors and business partners were looking for the right form of assistance to assist in managing early stage business growth to enable them to become more confident and relaxed about the prospects of expansion.
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July 2014
Business mentors have been helping Design Bindings almost every step of the way since the successful family business was launched three years ago.
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July 2014
New business owners learned from business coaches and mentors at a special event.
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July 2014
Senior business development manager Jim Brown, of William Tracey - one of the UK’s leading recycling and resource management companies - was approached by Business Mentoring Scotland executive Linda Perry at a Renfrewshire chamber business event in December 2011, with mentoring beginning with his mentor Fred Bogacki (shown right), a short time later.
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July 2014
AC Gold Energy is an electrical engineering company that has expanded into related markets including renewable energy and energy efficiency solutions since it began trading in Stirling in 2004.
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July 2014
NEO Environmental is a multidisciplinary consultancy that provides technical solutions and specialist integrated services for the successful consent of renewable energy and infrastructural projects across the UK and Ireland.
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June 2014
liGo is a smart telephony provider set up in Glasgow over 10 years ago, and has grown and expanded over the years to meet a wide range of tech needs, offering scalable solutions to meet the demands of SMB’s and consumers in the UK, Germany and France.
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June 2014
Mike Rae (shown right), director at Feorlin Ltd, and board member of Fife Alcohol Support Service and Tayside Council on Alcohol, has been a mentor through Business Mentoring Scotland for over four years now.
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June 2014
Business Mentoring Scotland has found its latest advocate in the form of Diane Drummond, co-owner of B-Dacs, a Glasgow based provider of Air Conditioning installation and related services for industrial, commercial, and domestic clients.
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May 2014
Electrical contractors Mark Wardle is set to recruit up to 10 new staff following a dramatic turnaround in fortunes.
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May 2014
Here, Gillian explains live in front of 70 guests how she is finding the Rockstar Level 2 package so far.
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May 2014
Rockstar Mentee, Belinda Moore explains why her mentor has been so valuable to her business.
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April 2014
An award winning mobile app and game developer has credited the ongoing support it receives from a Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking mentor for boosting its success as it moves to pursue growth opportunities overseas.
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April 2014
Parmi Jutlay talks about his mentoring experience with Rockstar
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April 2014
The Redshift Academy supported by Lloyds Banking Group, will be setting up a new 16‐19 Free School specialising in digital and creative media and entrepreneurship. This will give young people the skills they need to equip them for future employment.
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April 2014
Peter Rawson gives 3 examples here of how he has mentored 3 different mentees businesses out of signficant problems.
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April 2014
A unique partnership has been formed between Lloyds Banking Group and Chief Officers 3rd Sector (CO3) to offer a new mentoring service to support the wider business community through charities and social enterprises.
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April 2014
Here, Rockstar Mentee Paricial McNelly describes what she likes best about working with Rockstar Mentor Roddy Campbell and Rockstar MD, Jonathan Pfahl… In short, “Bloody Marvelous!”
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April 2014
A new ethical brand based in the heart of London has recently launched following enterprise mentoring support from Lloyds Banking Group.
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April 2014
Max Wright explains how a new niche training business that had been rejected by a number of angel investors was restructred by Max and turned into a profitable company.
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April 2014
Winners announced at the annual Celebrating Enterprise Awards, held at the House of Commons. South-West mentor from Lloyds Banking Group scoops prestigious accolade.
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April 2014
Here Rockstar Mentor Russell Wynn Jones explains how he helped 3 mentees’ businesses turn yearly losses to profits!
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April 2014
A forward-thinking entrepreneur from London has launched a graduate training business with the support of enterprise mentoring from Lloyds Banking Group.
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April 2014
In this case study, Rockstar mentor Norman Jackson explains how he assisted a £2m turnover recruitment business in its acquisition and increased its turnover to £7m within 5 years.
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April 2014
Lloyds Banking Group has joined forces with the Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) and charity Leonard Cheshire Disability, to launch a new enterprise mentoring qualification designed to support disabled entrepreneurs across the UK.
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February 2014
A Staffordshire company is achieving its dual goals of providing a uniquely healthy diet for the UK’s dogs and cats, while building a growing business.
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February 2014
Here, Rockstar Mentor, Paul Comyn explains how he bought into a regional newpaper during a management buy in for 3m pounds and helped build it up to a tradesale. It sold 13 years later for 285m pounds.
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February 2014
Ken White runs a social enterprise called Youth Education Project (YEP!) which provides alternative education to young people from across Leicestershire. The young people that benefit from its courses are those that are excluded from school, have been referred by the Youth Offending Service, and NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
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February 2014
A budding digital entrepreneur from Edinburgh is expanding his online property website and developing his business model with the support of enterprise mentoring from Lloyds Banking Group and the Scottish Chamber of Commerce.
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December 2013
Talented artist Andrea Siegertsz spends her time painting super heroes and fantasy princesses.
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December 2013
A series of free training courses and mentoring support hosted by PRIME Cymru and supported by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking aims to encourage the entrepreneurial ambitions of over-50s in Wales.
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November 2013
A Community Interest Company is working towards building a wide client base with the help of a business mentor.
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October 2013
SCA Management Consulting is delighted to be listed as a Business Mentoring organisation on Mentorsme portal.
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October 2013
One of the UK’s brightest graduate entrepreneurs is enhancing his business model with the help of mentoring guidance from Lloyds Banking Group.
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August 2013
Dorota Grabkowska a young designer and Carl Beardon a Barclay’s manager and business mentor were brought together in May 2012 by their local mentoring organisation, IOEE.
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August 2013
Divian Mistry already had a well established business when he found out about the opportunity to source a mentor from the banking sector.
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August 2013
After an initial meeting in which mentee and mentor learnt more about each other, it was agreed that a fruitful mentoring partnership was in the making.
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August 2013
Lauren contacted WBC seeking some support from a mentor as she had an impending business meeting to attend.
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August 2013
SpacePink is an independent company specialising in Homesearch (for all buyers), Rentals and Property Management for tenants and landlords.
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August 2013
De Novo Arts works with the contemporary arts producing high quality digital content and films. The company films events and promotional videos, edits works, post production and media consultation.
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August 2013
Breathe Arts Health Research, the social enterprise developing creative approaches to tackle healthcare issues, has designed a new therapy to help young people suffering from hemiplegia.
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August 2013
After being crowned winner of the Lloyds TSB Enterprise Awards in March, YASA Motors, the Oxford-based manufacturer of high performance electric motors for hybrid and electric cars, received part of its prize – a mentoring session with leading figures from Lloyds TSB Commercial.
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August 2013
A London-based social innovations development company receives mentoring support from Business in the Community and Lloyds TSB Commercial to grow its new business incubation programme.
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July 2013
Regalcrafts Ltd is a business with one sole director and 2 part time volunteers. Issues were mainly marketing and time management
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July 2013
The business was doing ok and growing organically, with little direction or planning. I wanted to get some opinions on where I could take the business and how to improve it.
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June 2013
A fast-growing digital design company led by a group of Plymouth University graduates is expanding rapidly with the help of business mentoring support.
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April 2013
A Knitting and crafts shop in Swindon has expanded with the help of mentoring support from Business Mentors South West and Lloyds TSB Commercial.
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March 2013
A Knitting and crafts shop in Swindon has expanded with the help of mentoring support from Business Mentors South West and Lloyds TSB Commercial.
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March 2013
A Plymouth employment training and coaching company is set to launch new programmes after using mentoring support from Lloyds TSB Commercial and Business Mentors South West.
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March 2013
An award-winning language services company in Swansea has expanded and is planning to open new offices with the help of mentoring support from the PRIME Cymru mentoring agency and Lloyds TSB Commercial.
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January 2013
I am a mentor for Lisa Holmes*, Principal and founding partner of a small firm of solicitors in Cheshire. The firm is focused on accident and injury claims, employment law and medical negligence.
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January 2013
Physio-logical is a physiotherapy, back pain, sports injury and acupuncture clinic providing high quality, hands on and patient focussed physiotherapy for Portsmouth, Havant, Basingstoke and Hampshire.
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December 2012
This case study describes the work of the 12/8 Group, a peer-to-peer business mentoring initiative involving six growth orientated African-Caribbean owned small firms.
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December 2012
Fast-growing Ryeland Developments israpidly making a name for itself as aleading contractor to some of the country’s biggest utilities companies.
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September 2012
“We are an award-winning cookery school in South Devon and at the point we contacted Business Mentors South West we were uncertain about the next stage for growing our business.
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September 2012
My mentee is Phil Gardner of Greyblue Ltd., a company specialising in lighting design and installation for the residential market as well as corporate. Phil also undertakes consultancy work in the Middle East.
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September 2012
My Tots Kitchen shows the way in helping families feed their babies and children.
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September 2012
When Kevin Arnold was made redundant after 30 years with the same company, he decided to turn his life long interest in personal development and empowerment into a new career and follow his dream of running his own business.
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September 2012
My mentee is Paul Litten, who runs Site Project Services Ltd., a commercial cleaning service based in Warrington.
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September 2012
The organisation I have been mentoring is the National Literacy Trust (NLT), a UK-registered charity which aims to improve literacy rates among school children across the UK.
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August 2012
When the responsibility of running the family business fell squarely on the unsuspecting shoulders of David Jones, he turned to a well-liked and highly respected Mentor to help him find the resources within himself that he needed.
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August 2012
Visarion Media, is a Hampshire based business that specialises in capturing and streaming the content presented at conferences, events, keynote speeches, presentations, AGMs, corporate briefings and training seminars.
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May 2012
With turnover doubling every year since its formation three and a half years ago, SPB Moulds is achieving the kind of exponential growth that other companies would envy.
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January 2012
Dozens of jobs are being created and many more safeguarded thanks to Let’s Do Mentoring, the volunteer business support scheme run by the North Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce (NSCCI).
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January 2012
Having perfected an innovative sledge that’s seriously fast and manoeuvrable, Stone-based Bobskis are ready to take the winter sports market by snowstorm – with a little help from their mentor.
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January 2012
No matter how successful a business is running, the people at the top need to be able to step away from day-to-day issues and take a look at ‘the bigger picture’.
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December 2011
Brightlines is an established translation company specialising in a variety of translation and interpreting services in over 50 languages.
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December 2011
Richard Cale of Aqua Essentials has successfully made the journey from back bedroom hobbyist to warehouse and national online supplier of specialist aqua products.
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July 2011
A change in circumstances prompted Paul Richards from Abergavenny, Wales, to start his own company.
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June 2011
The Entrepreneur Exchange has nurtured more than 100 new or recently started businesses over the past 12 months, but one of the more unusual requests was from a local indie band with a detailed business plan.
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June 2011
In her early fifties, Susannah Wood decided to make a career and lifestyle change from midwife to country hotel and restaurant owner.
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May 2011
Successful businesspeople never believe that they have all the answers. At Staffordshire Precision Engineering, a specialist components manufacturer with a 30-year record of success, joint managing directors Gary and Phil Smith have found there’s much to be gained from ‘a fresh pair of eyes’.
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May 2011
Product designer Nathan Bestwick of Rotherham is riding high after winning the 2010 Sheffield Hallam University’s Enterprise Challenge with his ‘Millme’ spice mill designed for people who have limited strength or dexterity in their hands.
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May 2011
Learning leadership skills can make a real difference to your company’s bottom line, as members of one group of business owners found when they attended Designated Associates’ mentoring programme.
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May 2011
Dianne Halliday runs Country Fare, from a former “traditional” farm in Cumbria.
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May 2011
Green Street Media is an environmentally friendly advertising company, which specialises in spraying marketing messages onto town and city streets with a high-pressure water jet trained on a stencil.
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May 2011
The Entrepreneur Exchange has been behind a large number of business successes in the Sheffield area, but one of the more unusual involved slow-dried, sun-soaked pineapple being farmed in Uganda and sold in independent health food shops in the UK.
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May 2011
Sheffield city region’s Entrepreneur Exchange has nurtured more than 100 new or recently started businesses over the past 12 months, but one of the more unusual requests was from a local indie band with a detailed business plan.
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