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Business Support in your Area

The following matches were found in The East Midlands:

For Derbyshire

	Business Link East Midlands
	We provide delivery of Business Link branded information, diagnostic and brokerage business support to new and existing businesses across the East Midlands - including Derbyshire, Leics, Northants, Lincs and Rutland.

For Leicestershire

	DeMontfort University Business Incubation Unit
	The Innovation Centre is a modern office development within DeMontfort University offering 17 varying sized rental offices to start-up businesses predominantly in high technology, knowledge intensive and design-led fields. We offer on-site business advice, networking and collaborative opportunities, funded training events and links to the University.

For Northants

Business4Women

Our services are aimed at women aged from 16+ to retirement and provide training and business support to enable women to create enterprises. Our Business4Women programme based at Northampton Business School, University of Northampton aims to help women to start up and grow their own business by offering flexible and informal business training and support free of charge. The Business4women programme offers: the 'Building Your Rainbow' course of workshops to provide information about the skills needed to run a business; 1-1 clinics for personal development planning and business plan preparation; continuous, on-going business support; assistance with childcare and travel expenses if required; networking events; ICT training and support; access to business incubation facilities subject to meeting the entrance requirements of our Incubator Unit at the University of Northampton. The areas in which these services are offered are Northamptonshire and the East Midlands.

Rachel Mallows Services to Business

Rachel Mallows Services to Business provides a comprehensive range of training, development and mentoring to businesses and individuals. It is an Investors in People company and accredited with the Matrix Standard for Initial Advice and Guidance to individuals and businesses. Rachel personally was involved in setting up the Northamptonshire Women's Network in 1994 and several businesswomen's groups. Currently Rachel is a Director of East Midlands Business Ltd and has the responsibility for progressing issues relating to women in enterprise. In additon the business is involved in running a number of courses aimed at supporting, encouraging and empowering women in business in enterprise and in social enterprise. Our services are available in Northants and the East Midlands region.

For Nottingham

Nottinghamshire Business Venture

NBV was established in 1982 to promote entrepreneurship and offer ongoing support to individuals and small businesses. Offering a flexible mix of business advice, training, mentoring and networking activities, programmes of support are tailored to meet the individual needs of clients. Currently approximately 47% of NBV clients are female. An accredited Enterprise Agency with a strong history of partnership working, NBV also acts as a portal into other specialist organisations on behalf of clients. Our services are available in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire.

For Nottinghamshire

DiVersity Creative Marketing Solutions Ltd

I'm Diane Slaney, owner-manager of one of the fastest growing communications agencies in the East Midlands, and I'm passionate about providing professional marketing support to help businesses develop. DiVersity offers the aesthetics of a design agency, the strategic thinking of an ad agency and the commercial focus of marketing specialists. We pride ourselves on being creative and intelligent while staying approachable and flexible, and we've built up a great reputation for delivering on time and within budget. We work with clients of all sizes from different industry sectors across the UK, and our creative services cover everything from advertising and corporate identity through to websites and through-the-line marketing campaigns. We also offer professional marketing and management consultancy as stand-alone services. I'm interested in working within the Prowess membership to increase my knowledge of the national issues facing women in business, and how my organisation might be able to help.

TNG Business Support - East Midlands

Part of the Training Network Group, TNG Business Support assists around 3,000 unemployed people each year to consider self-employment and - where appropriate - help them to set up in business. In Nottingham we run a successful women's enterprise outreach project called 'Rainbow'. Our services are also available in Mansfield. We also offer training, help, advice, mentoring and consultancy to existing businesses mainly at early stages in their development and micro businesses. Our services are available to all, and we work hard to maintain equality of opportunity.