Northamptonshire’s thriving startup community is set to be celebrated once again with the return of NNSTARTUP DAY — an online annual celebration of enterprise and entrepreneurship across the county.Taking place this year on Wednesday 11th June, NNSTARTUP DAY will spotlight the inspirational stories, journeys, and successes of entrepreneurs from every corner of Northamptonshire. The day will feature exclusive interviews with a wide range of business owners—from startup founders to seasoned small business leaders—sharing insights, challenges, and the realities of running a business in today’s landscape.This year’s event will be officially opened by Tony Robinson OBE, the UK’s Micro Biz Champion,...

11 April, 2025

Today marks the third annual #NNSTARTUP DAY as NNBN celebrates entrepreneurship in Northamptonshire.We have an amazing line up of small business owners all talking about their business journeys, what it's like to run a business, what challenges they have had along the way and giving tips and advice for those starting a business or considering starting a business.The day has been filmed at Vulcan Works, a creative hub in Guildhall Road, Northampton and Poppy Design Studio, a website and graphic design agency in Desborough and without their support, #NNSTARTUP DAY this year would have all been on Zoom!So here is...

19 June, 2024

NNSTARTUP DAY returns this June as entrepreneurs and those starting businesses are recognised for their contribution to the Northamptonshire business community in a day of online celebration championing their business journeys and sharing their stories.The day, founded in 2022 as an annual day of celebrating businesses in Northamptonshire who have started a business, is this year kindly being supported by Desborough based Poppy Design Studio and Marketing and Vulcan Works, a creative hub based in Guildhall Road, Northampton and will see a series of interviews from local entrepreneurs shared across the internet to celebrate their business journeys, recognise their commitment...

31 May, 2024

Our final video for this year's NNSTARTUP DAY is a re-run of last year's interview with Tony Robinson OBE.Tony is a corporate speaker, multiple business owner, campaigner and writer on leadership, happy workplaces, enterprise and entrepreneurship. He is Chair of Yorkshire in Business Limited (YIB) and all his work in the UK and overseas is in collaboration with Yorkshire in Business Limited.Tony is a multiple business owner over three decades, Chair of Yorkshire in Business Limited, Patron of the John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank, Judge for the major UK Entrepreneurship Awards, the founder of the SFEDI Group and co-founder of...

14 June, 2023

Meet Keith who owns the East Northamptonshire franchise of Workplace Cleaning Solutions.Workplace Cleaning Solutions commercial cleaning services range from office cleans to retail and industrial cleans. Workplace Cleaning Solutions local branch caters for every sector, if it’s a workspace they can clean it.Keith talks about his journey in business on this short video.Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/S58GQkOc5Ek  ...

14 June, 2023

Mark is a creative, adaptable and solutions-orientated PR and communications professional with 20 years’ experience across private and public sector brands, including: Higher education, publishing, legal services, tourism, food, scientific research, business and government.His skills vary from: Public Relations Strategy and Delivery Copywriting Media Relations and Interviews Employee Engagement Social Media Crisis Comms Public AffairsOn this video, Mark shares some valuable information for start up businesses and talks about his experience in business.Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/GdntfWK6VnI ...

14 June, 2023

The fallout from COVID 19 and rapid rate of technological innovations requires current workforces to continually update skills to equip them for emerging roles in the sectors in which they work, which have been influenced by new technologies.Many companies are neither effectively maximising the potential of new technologies nor the talents of their employees. As a result, opportunities are missed and performance is not maximised.“Digital Future First” provides access to Small Business Grants and works with employers to identify their skills needs, demonstrate additionality and innovative new nature of developed programme content and delivery solutions, where relevant, will trial programme...

14 June, 2023

Meet Polly who has combined her knowledge, skills and experience into creating a newly formed business called Magenta Business Support Services.Polly talks about her transition from employment to self employment and how she's finding running a start up business so far having launched the business in January 2023.Polly has had a varied and enjoyable career in the arts, events, financial and property industries, and decided in January 2023 to use her varied collection of skills to become self employed and help small business and families, in a flexible and affordable way, to either become more productive, generate more income, or...

14 June, 2023

Nicky is the Managing Director of East Midlands HR and here she talks about starting her fourth year in business and taking on that first employee.Nicky is an HR professional and is very experienced and knowledgeable around a number of subjects including:Improving Business Performance with effective, time-saving HR practices Improve productivity, reduce labour costs with Performance Management support Reduce HR admin by 30%, save time, improve efficiency, manage absence, with a HR System - from £13 per month Remove risks of employee relation issues with clear Policies and procedures Attract and recruit the right candidates with our Applicant Tracking...

14 June, 2023

Angela, and her husband Rupert, work with established or aspiring business owners, and experts in their industry building a business around them to support their excellence.Angela is passionate about working with business owners/leaders to enable them to get the business and life they really want. Angela has been involved in the leadership and management of small businesses since she started her own accountancy practice in 2007. As a result, she have many years of entrepreneurial experience and have suffered the pains of business ownership as well as the highs, this means she understands the roller coaster of owning your own...

14 June, 2023

As part of the British Library National Network the Business & IP Centre Northamptonshire is leading a revolution by inspiring a thriving community of new and existing business owners. It is free to join and open to everyone. And it is transforming the way ideas grow into successful businesses. ​Whether you are just starting out, need advice on protecting your intellectual property, or are ready to take the next step in your business journey, they are here to help. They support entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and developing a business. Listen to James...

14 June, 2023