We are celebrating #GreenStreetAtNight
Our Newham Business and Enterprise are holding two webinars about how Green Street can become a better place for shopping and leisure at night. Our Newham Business and Enterprise is part of Our Newham, which supports residents into training and employment, promotes financial wellbeing and helps businesses.
Green Street is much loved place to shop during the day. The Council wants to help make it just as nice a place to shop at night as well as somewhere to enjoy an evening out. To do this we want to talk to residents, shop owners, businesses and community groups so that together we can come up with an action plan to make this happen.
Let’s discuss: late night retail opening – art/theatre/music/film events – design and fashion evenings – make-up and personal styling evenings – low cost and flexible business spaces for hire in the evenings – activities such as indoor climbing, skating, football, cricket and basketball – pops-ups and food stalls – ensuring the health and safety of night workers.
Click here to join the July 14th session: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-celebrating-greenstreetatnight-tickets-375980627177
Click here to join the July 20th session: We are celebrating #GreenStreetAtNight Tickets, Wed 20 Jul 2022 at 14:00 | Eventbrite
Large Grant Scheme
In February-March this year Our Newham Business and Enterprise awarded £1,124,561 through the Additional Restrictions Grant: Large Grant Scheme to nine organisations to help support a broad range of projects and activities centred around the eight pillars of our Towards a Better Newham Covid-19 Recovery Strategy. The grants provided them with both capital and revenue funding for initiatives to help boost local economic activity.
How to become a council supplier workshop
Last week over 130 delegates joined online procurement workshop. Everything about this workshop was designed to help SMEs understand how the Council buys services and how you can get your business in the best position to win contracts with us.
Here’s what some of the attendees said:
Mark Patchett: “Very many thanks – extremely well presented, clear and passionate! Really useful and appreciated.”
Owen Harding: “Fantastic session, well-paced, great content and a very knowledgeable facilitator. Thank you.”
Careen Smith: “Thank you for a very informative and beneficial webinar.”
Here’s a link to the webinar recording in case you missed it or had to leave the session early: Webinars/training/workshops – Support for businesses – Newham Council
The Living Wage Foundation launches the Living Wage Place Scheme to make the Royal Docks a Living Wage Place
The Living Wage Place scheme is an initiative by the Living Wage Foundation which aims to increase the number of Living Wage Employers paying a real Living Wage through a place-based approach.
Newham Council is an active member of the Royal Docks Action Group, which is dedicated to making the Royal Docks a Living Wage Place. The Group will be launching The Royal Docks Action Plan on 12 July at an iconic Royal Docks location, to which every business based in the Royal Docks and anywhere else in Newham is welcome. This is an unmissable opportunity to learn about the business benefits of paying the real Living Wage, as well as to network with businesses which are Living Wage Employers and hear from those who benefit from receiving a real Living Wage.
To register: Launching the Royal Docks as a Living Wage Place Tickets, Tue 12 Jul 2022 at 08:15 | Eventbrite
Could you be the Young Entrepreneur of the Year?
The Young Entrepreneur of the Year category is open to a young business owner or employee (under the age of 30) who has demonstrated vision and creativity. You will need to demonstrate that your contribution to the business has had a direct impact on its success. What the judges will be looking for:
- your vision for the business
- how you have achieved your objectives and overcome obstacles
- your plan for the coming year.
“The award trophy went up in our business like a little mini Oscar,” Darryl Powis, Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2021.
Deadline for entries is 31 August. For more information and to apply:
Investing in Women Code report published
The Investing in Women Code is a commitment to support the advancement of female entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom by improving female entrepreneurs’ access to tools, resources and finance from the financial services sector.
It has published its second annual progress report, the key findings of which include:
- In 2021 34% of venture capital deals made by code signatories were in companies with at least one female founder, compared to an industry average of 24%.
- In 2021 the average amount of early stage investment being sought by all female teams (£791k) was very similar to all male teams (£823k). This is a significant and encouraging change from 2020, when all female teams requested less than 50% of the amounts requested by male only teams.
- The number of code signatories has now reached 160, with a notable increase in the number of venture and growth capital firms joining – they accounted for 34 of the 53 new signatories in the year to 31 March 2022.
To read the full report:
ULEZ: your views are needed on the planned expansion
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) will formally respond to the Mayor of London and TfL’s public consultation on the planned London-wide ULEZ expansion for August 2023 by 29 July.
To ensure a clearly informed and updated view of all small businesses, we encourage you to complete their survey by Friday 8 July.
To complete the survey:
To read more about the TfL proposal:
Free e-business support programme
In partnership with Our Newham Business & Enterprise, Newham College has launched a new programme that will support 550 SMEs in the borough to capitalise on emerging digital and e-commerce technologies to drive their long-term growth.
Called the Local London E-business Support Programme, it provides a menu of support and training to develop skills and knowledge of digital technology and applications across all sectors including: e-commerce; digital business tools, online marketing and trading, social media, establishing a strong online presence, e-tendering and crowd funding, and cyber security and data protection. In summary:
- free support for 550 SMEs
- free digital upskilling for 1,125 SME staff
- free business support activities, including access to specialist workshops, one-to-one support, mentoring
- increased sales and productivity for these businesses.
If you have been trading for a minimum of six months and would like to register your interest in joining the programme, email: OurNewhamBandE@newham.gov.uk
Must-go networking event
After the resounding success of Newham Chamber of Commerce’s April networking evening, the Chamber looks forward to meeting members and non-members (first booking is FREE, then a £15 charge pp for each extra booking) at the next networking evening. This will be a valuable occasion to “sell” your enterprise to other businesses in a friendly, relaxed environment. Food and drinks are free.
Thursday 7 July – 18:00-20:00
The Print House Bar & Kitchen, 133-135 High Street, Stratford, E15 2RB (next to Sugar House Lane)
To book, please contact the Secretary, John James:
Webinars
How to market your business on LinkedIn
Wednesday 6 July 2022 – 10:30-11:30
This webinar from the Small Business Research + Enterprise Centre will explore how to boost your activities on LinkedIn to generate more leads for your business.
Intro to social media strategy
Thursday 7 July 2022 – 15:00-17:00
This online event from General Assembly, a private education and training provider, will introduce you to various social media platforms and explore how to create an effective social media strategy.
Running a successful high street business
Tuesday 12 July 2022 – 16:30-18:00
Support for high street businesses to overcome challenges.
Let’s Grow Business Together – LGBT+ business networking event
Friday 22 July – 15:00-16:00
A regular monthly event and a space for FSB LGBT+ members, allies and other businesses alike to come together, share, learn and support each other. This month’s topic: how being ‘out’ or specialising in supplying the LGBT+ community has helped your business to grow.
