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VENTURE Get your business off the ground If you’re looking to start your own business, we can help you to develop business skills to realise your dream of becoming your own boss. We run lots of different free workshops so you know what to prepare for. Our recent workshop at The Place on Platt Lane in Fallowfield focused on market stall and online trading. Running for eight weeks, attendees picked up the knowledge and skills to run their market business successfully. At the end of the course, participants could apply for a grant of up to £500 to help their business idea move forward. Gala Mohamed had recently started her own cake-making business, and found out about the workshop by reading <strong>Inspire</strong> Magazine: “I found out about the retail workshop just by chance. I had received the magazine through my letterbox, and I looked through it and found this course. Before this I was really struggling to find a direction to take my business in. I spoke to Wayne (our enterprise adviser) and he directed me to this course. “The business had really only started as a hobby. I was making cakes for my kids’ parties and for family birthdays. I noticed that there was a market for the cakes and so I decided to turn it into a business. “I wanted to find out about things like the legal requirements for starting a business and the course was so useful. Before I came here I had no idea where to go or what to do. “The grant that I received at the end of the course was a huge help to the business. It allowed me to buy the equipment I needed and has really put me ahead of the competition.” Helen Birch also attended the course and found it was a huge help in her busy life: “I have so many different projects on the go, and multitasking means that I’ve never used a diary so much in my life. I have to write a list of all my tasks. Having the time during the week to come down to The Place allowed me to focus purely on my business which was great. “It was a very professional setting but still relaxed enough that you could always ask any questions that you needed to. It gave us loads of opportunities to consider different possibilities for our business, and it was good fun.” If you would like to find out more about our business workshops, phone Wayne on 0161 274 2150 or email wayne.wilson@onemanchester.co.uk 22 @onemcr
Another year of supporting small businesses VENTURE At our first ever Catalyst Fund earlier in the year, 10 worthy local businesses were awarded a total of £40,000 of funding and we’re doing it again! The success of the Catalyst Fund gave business owners the chance to present their ideas and convince the judging panel that they would make a positive difference to the community. By coming to the next event you can find out more about funding and ask questions to members of One Manchester’s business team. This year’s Catalyst Fund will be launched: Tuesday 2 October, 4pm to 7pm at Z-arts, 335 Stretford Road, Hulme, M15 5ZA If you run a business locally and would like to apply for funding from One Manchester, visit www.onemanchester.co.uk/ funding-support Would you like to start your own retail business, or have you already set-up? Your business could follow in the footsteps of huge retailers like Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Matalan, who all started life on a market stall. We’re working with Prosper Associates to offer free training so you can become a new market stall trader or trade online. There is also a fantastic opportunity to access a small start-up grant too, based on eligibility and completion of the whole programme. This training workshop is for new retail businesses, or existing traders with no more than 30 months in business. What you will get New Ad to be supplied by LC to go on this spread! • Vital skills needed as a market or online retailer • Real-life ideas and action points • To learn the rules and regulations of running a business • All equipment and materials provided one youth one home one life one money The training workshop will begin on Monday 17 September at The Place at Platt Lane, Fallowfield, M14 7FB one place one future Don’t miss out - book your place! one venture Call Wayne on 0161 274 2150 or email wayne.wilson@onemanchester.co.uk 0330 355 1002 23 7
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