The Enterprise Club
Local people who are out of work and considering starting their own business or becoming self-employed can access business support and advice and meet other like-minded people through our Enterprise Club which we run in partnership with Job Centre Plus.
The club meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at North Somerset Enterprise Agency's offices from 10 am – 11am.
It's a great way to share ideas and receive expert advice from successful local business people, entrepreneurs and people who are self-employed.
Our Services
We offer a range of services to help small businesses start-up and grow including:
- For start-up businesses:
- Free advice, counselling, information and training, business help and support
- Free or low-cost practical training seminars
- Business mentoring, coaching and networking opportunities
- Dedicated support for social enterprises and creative businesses
- Specialist support for women in business and rural companies
- Free or subsidised professional advice and consultancy from qualified legal, IT, marketing, accountancy and taxation practitioners
- The opportunity to gain business qualifications
- For growing businesses:
- Advice, coaching and mentoring to help your business grow
- Low-cost practical training
- Ideas and information to help your business move forward
- Solutions to business problems
- Sources of business finance
- Networking opportunities and contacts
Call us TODAY to find out what we can do for YOUR business
What our clients
say about us…
"I found the advice and support from NSEA to be invaluable throughout the setting up process and even now, two years on, it is reassuring to know that I have a business advisor on hand to offer their expertise as and when I need it."
Kelly Hooper, The Barn beauty salon
Support from our business partners too
Our start-up business support is delivered free of charge thanks to North Somerset Council - visit www.innorthsomerset.co.uk for more information about how the economic development team can support your business.
North Somerset Enterprise Agency is a member of Business Navigator - www.businessnavigator.org.uk - an exciting new web service from the West of England LEP (Local Enterprise Partnership) that helps you find business support organisations and events in the Bristol and Bath region. It has a searchable directory of organisations and an aggregated calendar of their events, as well as a forum to ask about finding support. This is still under development and only includes some local support organisations but the team that has put it together is keen to get feedback so try out the website and tell them what you think using the online survey at http://www.businessnavigator.org.uk/pages/21-feedback
Dedicated Enterprise Support
We have a dedicated Social Enterprise Advisor working in the South and Central Wards and the Potteries in Weston-super-Mare providing tailored advice, consultancy,training, networking and other services to help social enterprises. Please call us for guidance and practical support on formal registration, business and strategic plans,funding applications, staff training, sourcing networking and partnership opportunities and financial management procedures.