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Chapter 3 – Effective interventions
Case study 4
Migrant workers’ information portal
In response to the issue of access to information highlighted in Migrant Workers in the East of England,
EEDA, 2005, a project has been established to provide information and advice to migrant workers through
a single ‘gateway’. The project is delivered by Advice for Life in Cambridge and Keystone Development
Trust in Thetford.
Activities include:
• a telephone action line providing essential information to migrant workers in six key community
languages
• provision of information to migrant workers through weekly live-chat sessions
• a telephone action line providing essential information to employers, trade unions and practitioners
working with migrants
• a website providing information, advice and guidance for migrants and employers.
The project aims to rationalise the sources and diversity of information by providing a single gateway
to what is available. This is in line with good practice thinking across Europe.
For more information visit: www.migrantgateway.eu.
Case study 5
The Enterprising Women project
Although the East of England is one of the fastest growing regions in the country, only a third of its new
businesses are set up by women. The Enterprising Women project, funded by EEDA’s Investing in
Communities programme, and delivered by a group of business support organisations, sets out to
redress the balance.
Enterprising Women delivers a variety of high quality, tailored training at every stage of a company's
development. Some topics are particularly relevant to women, such as confidence, fear of failure and
risk, and others are key challenges for all growing companies, such as increasing sales, growth, pricing
and value.
The project’s website, www.enterprising-women.org, features profiles of women-owned businesses in
the region, along with resources and information. In addition, Enterprising Women runs events all over the
region, bringing women together around common themes and encouraging new contacts and relationships.
Women have a pivotal role to play in the region's continued growth and EEDA along with partners
must tackle the barriers that are stopping as many women as men setting-up their own business.
David Marlow, Chief Executive, EEDA.