Business Plus June 2009, Edition Six
New Business Centre Opens its Doors in Warwickshire Coleshill Business Centre opened its doors in mid-May thanks to funding from Advantage West Midlands and support from Coleshill Town Council. The new Business Centre, located on the first floor of Coleshill Town Hall has been launched to provide office and meeting facilities, training and support to people starting their own business in the local area. Programmes Manager Kathryn Stewart has overseen the renovation work: “Renovating the rooms at Coleshill Town Hall has been a long process but the result is a vibrant, practical office space that can really bring benefits to the local community. Local residents will be able to start their business in a low cost environment - an absolute necessity in these difficult times.” Business Advisor, Robin Underhay, will be providing support to new businesses in Coleshill: “I’m really excited that this new centre is finally open! We’ve worked with lots of new businesses in this area and there is so much enthusiasm, Coleshill Business Centre will give this enthusiasm a focus. No matter what your business idea is you’ll find something here for you so please get in touch with us to see how we can help.”
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You can contact Robin on 024 7623 6001 or by email on business-enterprise@cad.coventry.ac.uk
pg 2 MAP out your future! SPEEd up your business plans
Attention all Women in Business!
pg 3 Education Post-graduate Certificate in Business Enterprise BA/BSc in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship pg 4 Exciting new entrepreneur exchange programme launches in the West Midlands Virtual Office pg 5 New for 2009
As part of our New for 2009! series we are launching ‘Women in Business’, a brand new programme of activities and events aimed at empowering experienced and novice business women. You don’t have to run your own business to join in, you just need to have an enthusiasm for enterprise and be willing to share your knowledge and experience with others. The first activity to launch is our series of regular networking events. Unlike traditional business networking you don’t need to have anything to sell and we’re not restricted to ‘by invitation only’ membership or one business of each type rules. The emphasis is on empowerment, knowledge and having
fun! You never know what’s coming next in business so having a large network of contacts to call on is all important. Even better if you’ve got to know that person in an informal setting so when it comes to business the trust is already there. We really want to hear what you would like to see as part of ‘Women in Business’ in the future. If you’ve got any ideas for future events, subjects you’d like as part of a training programme or if you’ve got a success story to share then get in touch with us on businessenterprise@cad.coventry.ac.uk Join us at our launch event on Friday 3rd July 2009 at 10am to be inspired!