Go For It Programme 2011

 We can help you get started and Go For It! East Belfast Enterprise is the local delivery agent for the Enterprise Development programmes funded by Invest Northern Ireland.  If you are thinking about it this is the best starting point. Under the Enterprise Development Programmes you will receive the following help to get started:

• Access to a Client Manager who can discuss idea with you and point you in the right direction within a confidential one to one setting
• Access to a FREE business training course
• A dedicated Business Advisor to help you with completing a Business Plan
• £50 Contribution towards membership of a Women’s Business Network

Contact Elizabeth Richmond to arrange an appointment with our Client Manager by calling 028 90455450 or email Elizabeth@eastbelfast.org

Steps To Work

Are you unemployed and looking for the opportunity to start your own business?

Steps to Work (StW) is a Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) initiative that became widely available on 29th September 2008, after a successful pilot from April 2007 across four Jobs & Benefits Offices.

Steps to Work is described as a new and fresh approach to assisting people find gainful employment. Its menu-based approach provides a flexible way to help people with their individual employment and training needs.

The programme effectively enables individuals an opportunity to set up in business and Test Trade for a period of up to 26 weeks, whilst still retaining their benefits and gaining an additional weekly training allowance of 15.38.

People claiming Jobseekers Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Income Support are all eligible for support!

So if you have a good business idea, why not Go For It and ask your Personal Advisor at your Local Job Centre, to refer you to your nearest Enterprise agency for a chat with one our Advisors.

Benefits of the Programme:

• Get to try viability of business idea first, while retaining benefits
• Free small business training course
• Access to a dedicated Business Advisor for ongoing advice and support
• Assistance towards childcare available for eligible participants
• £15.38 training premium per week

As a Steps To Work Self Employment Option provider, East Belfast Enterprise, will help you explore your business idea through our Start A Business Programme and then provide support and ongoing advice during your Test Trading period.

Think it might be of interest? Then Contact Kat on 90 455 450 for more information, or email kat@eastbelfast.org

Lipstick & Money 2

The Lipstick & Money 2 programme is an exciting programme that East Belfast Enterprise have been running for 4 years, helping to give women who have been unemployed new confidence to get back into employment or self employment.  Lipstick & Money 2 is offered at your local community centre with this year clients having the option to gain a OCF Level 2 qualification in Understanding Business Enterprise.
Group Sessions for the Lipstick & Money 2 Programme include:

• Because I am Worth it
• Back to the Future
• A Few Quid Better Off?
• Whose Idea is it Anyway?
• How to Make Money at things you enjoy!
• More on Making Money

This programme is designed to help motivate females, providing them with tools and confidence to help them focus towards employment or self employment.

This programme is part funded by the European Social Fund and the Department for Employment & Learning.

To find out more information contact Marian at East Belfast Enterprise on 028 90455450 or Email lipstickandmoney@eastbelfast.org

Health2Wealth                                                                                                                                     

Health2Wealth is a new innovative programme aimed towards unemployed people interested in the Fitness Industry.  Working with our partner organisation Leisure Industry Academy, we provide advice and training to clients who are wanting explore the option of self employment in Health and Fitness. 

Combining a unique and interactive approach the programme offers:

• Practical Fitness Theory
• Fun Group Workout Sessions
• Enterprise Training

Benefits include:

• Free Recognised Qualifications 
• Valuable Skills & CV Experience
• Access to Fitness Industry Professionals
• Ongoing Support & Signposting

All in a Short 4 Week Course!

To Find out more information contact Kelly at East Belfast Enterprise on 028 90455450 or email health2wealth@eastbelfast.org

Megabytes

Megabytes is a new exciting programme designed to provide training and support.  The programme aims to inspire and motivate disadvantaged youth with little possibility of gaining employment to consider self employment as a viable alternative whilst gaining a recognised qualification QCF Level 2 in Understanding Business Enterprise.

• Web Design Templates for Starting a Business
• Creating Videos for Businesses Using YouTube
• Buying & Selling on Ebay
• Using Social Networking to Promote Business (Facebook, Twitter, My Space)
• Online & Text Marketing 
• Online Resources for Businesses (Constant Contact, Survey Monkey, Just Giving)

To find out more information contact Kat on 028 90455450 or email megabytes@eastbelfast.org

Exploring Enterprise

Exploring Enterprise is a free pre start enterprise programme which enables participants to identify a viable business idea whilst allowing them to work towards achieving a recognised qualification.

The objective of the programme is to increase awareness and offer training and development to potential entrepreneurs from disadvantaged communities and underrepresented groups (e.g. lone parents; women, the over fifties; youth and ethnic minorities). Participants must be unemployed and over 16 years of age.

Participants do not need to have a specific business idea to join; as the programme provides a complete overview and insight into starting a business.

On successful completion of this CCEA accredited training course participants will be awarded OCF Level 2 in Understanding Business Enterprise after undertaking accredited modules in Self Assessment, Marketing, Finance and Planning in Business.

This programme is part funded by the European Social Fund and the Department for Employment & Learning.

To Find out more information Contact Lisa at East Belfast Enterprise on 90 455450 or email lisa@eastbelfast.org

Digital Community Programme  
                                                                                                                           

Digital Community is an exciting new programme in Northern Ireland supported by the Lottery Funder ‘Building Change Trust’.

The programme has been developed by East Belfast Enterprise for NI Community and Voluntary groups to help boost their marketing capabilities through technology.

The programme is FREE but groups need to able commit resource to training and mentoring time.

In the Autumn of 2011 the Digital Community programme will kick off with training sessions on a range of topics including: How to build a digital marketing plan, Facebook for organisations, Twitter for organisations, Using email and on line surveys, SMS and donations, Search Engine Optimisation, Developing Apps for your organisation, ‘Smartboss’- bookkeeping and customer management made easy.

Participants will benefit from the following:

• 5 full days training over 5 weeks from digital marketing/on line experts  provided free of charge
• Dedicated mentoring to help implement your new digital marketing plan over a 3 month period provided free of charge including:
• Building a Facebook page for your organisation
• Launching your organisation on Twitter
• Understand & implement better SEO for your organisation
• Get more from on line donations
• Opportunity to network with similar organisations in your sector

The following are criteria that will be explored on assessment:

• Community or voluntary group based in NI
• Desire to develop a ‘digital marketing strategy’ as part of your organisation’s overall marketing plan
• Commitment to attending one full day per week training for 5 weeks in Belfast during September/October 2011
• Commitment to working with dedicated mentors for up to 3 months to help implement your new digital marketing plan

Want to find out more about Digital Community and see if the programme is right for your organisation? Places are limited and only those organisations best suited for the programme will be selected.
To Find out more information contact Ruairi at East Belfast Enterprise on 028 90455450 or email digitalcommunity@eastbelfast.org

Power Pac

PowerPac is an exciting new women’s project based on a very successful French pilot programme -  KitPac.

PowerPac aims to promote equality between women and men in the labour market by not only enhancing opportunities for women to obtain orbehålla anställning. retain sustainable and challenging employment but also by promoting an effective way to work towards a better work/life balance.

The programme will take a holistic approach to female development and empowerment and will centre around 3 main themes:

• Work/Career
• Health and Wellbeing
• Participation in Community Life

The main objective of PowerPac is to transfer the experience of the French KitPac project tKIT PAC till andra länder i Europa och att utbyta erfarenheter fo other countries in Europe and to exchange experiences in order to improve guidance services for women in a Europe wide context.

PowerPac is a Leonardo da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project led by the French organization CIBC Gard Hérault Lozère.
Other partners in the project come from Italy, Portugal, Northern Ireland, Switzerland and Sweden.

The project is being implemented with financial support from the European Commission. To find out more information contact Kelly at East Belfast Enterprise on 028 90455450 or email  Kelly@eastbelfast.org