Enterprise scheme helps 90 businesses
An enterprise partnership based in Ilkeston has helped 90 businesses set up since April, it has said. The Erewash Partnership claims to have assisted with the creation of 110 jobs through its advice sessions.
The partnership said it has already exceeded the total of 78 businesses that it gave a helping hand to during the previous financial year.
It has helped 60 business start-ups in Erewash and 30 through two projects with the Centre of Entrepreneurial Management at the University of Derby, it said. In all, these have created jobs for 110 people.
The enterprise scheme gives free advice sessions covering bookkeeping, accounts and cashflow, tax and insurance, marketing, and even how to find suitable premises.
So far this year, it has conducted 650 one-to-one advice sessions to people thinking of starting a business and fledgling firms.
Partnership chief executive Ian Viles said: “We are delighted to have helped all these businesses set up in these challenging times.
“This has proved a boost to the local economy and diversified it and in some cases helped people fulfil their dream of running their own businesses.”
“By purchasing good and services locally, businesses and other organisations help to foster local prosperity and create employment opportunities with money they would have spent anyway.”
