Outset

HUNTINGDONSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL - OUTSET SCHEME

Huntingdonshire District Council is keen to encourage the growth of new businesses within Huntingdonshire and Outset Huntingdonshire is a dedicated business start-up support programme specifically targeted at residents interested in starting their own business.  The initiative will provide a flexible range of options including pre and post start-up support, one-to-one sessions, mentoring and e-learning. It is delivered by the award-winning enterprise provider YTKO and aimed at all sectors of society including unemployed, women, lone parents, under 25s,and  people at risk of redundancy. For further information about starting a new business with Outset Huntingdonshire call 0800 032 7851 or visit www.outsethuntingdonshire.co.uk

#Huntingdonshire

#business

#startup

Written by Richard Wishart

wired for success

WIRED FOR SUCCESS

Our region has just secured some major political objectives and is beginning to move forward.  The Cambridge City deal, planning permissions at Alconbury Weald and the decision not to toll the A14 are major political successes - but now under the new enlightened regime we must push forward with core digital connectivity.

We need to connect Cambridge with the Alconbury Weald Enterprise Zone and Alconbury Weald with the Cloud.  The solution is really simple and straight forward.

We need 1 Gbps "fibre to the premises" (FTTP) broadband to every significant business within the "Cambridge City Deal" area and also to every business on the Alconbury Weald Enterprise Zone (and adjacent business parks).  There are some major European switching nodes just outside the Alconbury Weald perimeter. We also need the highest capacity "fibre trunk" in the cable duct running alongside the guided bus-way route. This would link the Addenbrookes Biomedical Campus at one end with the Alconbury Weald Enterprise Zone at the other end. En-route it passes through the Science Park, the Microsoft research facility at the station, the St John's Innovation Centre, the new  Cleantech Incubator, and both Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire Regional colleges.  We need Peter Cochrane the former CTO of BT and the countries foremost high speed broadband advocate to lead this initiative - and this is exactly what he did for the Financial Services industry in Jersey.

By implementing this plan we create a true "Cluster of Clusters" and then we need to connect this "Super Cluster" to the Cloud.

Both the Cambridge City Deal and the Alconbury Weald Enterprise Zone should have a special technical status that allows for rapid deployment of the latest "Cloud of Things" communication technologies (most of which were developed in Cambridge but not deployed in Cambridge)

- LTE Advanced 

- Bluetooth LTE (with iBeacon technology)

- Zigbee IP

- Near Field Communication

- ISO 18000 Dash7  technology

- Next generation  ISO 18000 6c technology

Not only would this put our LEP region at the heart of the development of the "Cloud of Things" it would put Alconbury Weald at the heart of the "Cloud of Making Things"  It would also put the Cambridge Super-cluster forward as the only logical  place to develop the world's next 5th generation wireless technologies. 

This would be a massive attractor of really innovative technology companies to Cambridge, the GCGP LEP area and the new Enterprise zone at Alconbury Weald.

Written by Richard Wishart

#cloud #broadband #wireless #making

HMA Funding for Growth

Invite you to attend this FREE business information event:

Funding for Growth
#HMAF4G

How you get your hands on free Government Money

Wednesday 22nd January, 2014

Building 56 at Alconbury Weald Enterprise Zone

To Book http://tinyurl.com/Fundingforgrowth

Programme

8:00 - 8:30 am Coffee/Breakfast/Networking

8.30 am - Welcome and introductions

Stuart Gibbons, HMA Chair.

8.35 am – Jenny Wilton, Manufacturing Advisory Service – Matched Funding for Manufacturing SMEs

Jenny, Manufacturing Advisor, will highlight how easy it is to get access to the funded support available from MAS for business growth, including matched funding for specific expert help and Product Development activities.

8.50 am - Kurt Scheepers, Grants 4 Growth – Matched funding for capital expenditure leading to increased resource efficiency.Kurt, Business Broker for the scheme, will explain how businesses can access matched funding to assist with the costs of capital equipment expenditure.

9.05 am – Carole Randall, Low Carbon Keep - Matched funded Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

Carole will explain the programme and how businesses can get matched funded support to innovate and grow through University Partnerships and Knowledge Transfer.

9.20 am - Recipients of funding share their experiences

9:30 am - Questions and Answers

Please feel free to continue networking after the formal close of the event at 10.00 am

To book please contact Louise Lee on +442033267315 or Louise@saundersandlee.com

     

    

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Driving Risk Matters

LAUNCH OF DRIVING RISK MATTERS

Local entrepreneur Les Hammond has launched his brand new company "Driving Risk Matters" with some positive support from the Hunts Post. Les is an active member of Huntingdonshire Business Network and we all wish him well in his exciting new venture.

Hywell Barrett who is the business reporter at the Hunts Post who wrote the article is keen to support new business startups.

Les is giving a presentation at HBN today about the thinking and psychology behind his new "Driving Risk Matters" product.  http://www.meetup.com/Huntingdonshire-Business-Network/events/153110952/

He was responsible for Driver training for the Olympics which involved training 6000 drivers in under 3 weeks and he now wants to turn this into his own business.

It is really important that local "start up" entrepreneurs are properly supported by the local business community in Huntingdonshire

Written by Richard Wishart

#Business

#Huntingdonshire

#Startup

#HBNmember

Royal Mail Privatisation

ROYAL MAIL PRIVATISATION

The road to postal privatisation has been a long one.  Richard Wishart who is a well respected international postal consultant was interviewed on The Business Hub by Ann Hawkins.  Why did he think it was a good idea ?





Big thanks to Mark Peters and Ann Hawkins from the Business Hub for allowing the use of this clip. It is always worth listening to on a Sunday morning

http://www.thebusinesshub.info/



Written by Richard Wishart

#Postal
#Privatisation
#Royal Mail

Driving Risk Matters

  

Whose Risk Is It Anyway?
(How to Design your Business)

HBN business event on Friday 6th December at 1230 in Huntingdon at the WI Centre on the Ring road.  Use this link to register

http://www.meetup.com/Huntingdonshire-Business-Network/events/153110952/

Les Hammond will be launching his band new company called "Driving Risk Matters" at the December HBN monthly seminar.  For his last employer Les trained 9000 drivers within 21 days.  The event was the Olympics so of course the completion date was fixed in stone - and achieved.  Les was a Parachute Jumping Instructor so motivation and psychology are part of his high on his agenda and part of his DNA.

Les will be demonstrating the business logic and the psychology that he has used to design his new business.  It is an extremely well designed concept and will be truly disruptive product when it hits the market in the new year.  For any entrepreneur thinking of setting up a new business this is the way that you design and create a disruptive and highly competitive service product.

The agenda for the presentation will be

• Ice Breaker “Ooooh Behave” what’s the worst thing you have ever done…. 

• Driving for Work Risk Management (D4Wk) – what is Driving for Work?

• Why do we need to manage D4Wk?

• Must Do, Should Do, Could Do – a model to establish minimum standards

• Management Task Vehicle Driver Risk Contribution factors

• Interventions available to respond to D4Wk Risk

• What will you do next?

Designing you business proposition is probably the most important decision that any small business owner will make.  Benchmarking your business ideas is critical and HBN has a lot of expertise in this area.

Duration:  30 minutes

12:30 - 12:55 Buffet Lunch - A real treat prepared by the good ladies of the WI  

13:00 - 13:30 Seminar

13:30 - 14:00 Discussion and Questions

14:00 - 14:25 General Networking

14:25 - 14:30 Clean up and depart

Cost & Venue.

Seminars (1st Friday of Month): Cost £10 (Members pay £5) Pay on arrival at door.. 

Location:

WI Centre, 6a Walden Road, Huntingdon, PE29 3AZ