The University of Leicester School of Business has supported over 250 small-to-medium sized businesses on the fully-funded Help to Grow: Management Course since September 2021.If you’re looking to develop leadership and management skills, optimise your business model, drive efficiencies or build greater engagement with your employees and customers this course can make a real practical difference.Largely delivered online but with 4 half-day in-person workshops in Leicester, managers and business owners in SMEs with 5-249 employees are invited to take advantage of this opportunity to join the next start date on 5th May.The programme is 90% government-funded and 10% funded through...

05 April, 2023

Speakers for Schools are partnering with SEMLEP to offer an exciting work experience project in the Summer. Speakers for Schools are looking for employers based in Northamptonshire to register their interest in taking part. This is a fully funded and supported opportunity where Speakers for Schools will assist you to set up and deliver a one-week work experience project in either June or July.  You’ll be supporting a local Special Educational Needs school and the project will involve 3 sessions during the project week, including an employer visit to the school to talk about your business/sector and introduce the project, a check...

05 April, 2023

Boughton House is looking forward to opening its doors over the Easter (Saturday 8th to Monday 10th April) and May Bank Holiday weekends (Saturday 29th April to Monday 1st May and Saturday 27th to Monday 29th May). This year, in addition to the world-class art collection and fascinating history, visitors can admire a newly restored collection of ancient statues and view contemporary works by local artists.Three ancient statues have recently undergone conservation and been returned to Boughton where they take pride of place in the Egyptian Hall. Previously on the West Lawn and are thought to be around 2000 years...

04 April, 2023

NNBN Members Trapp'd Ltd are proud to announce that they have been named as finalists in both the Business Innovation category and the Business of the Year less than 50 Employees category at the SME Northamptonshire Business Awards!The UK's number 1 Escape Room provider, who have 5 branches across Northamptonshire, were nominated in the Business Innovation category for the addition of their Rage Rooms, a concept that is attracting a huge amount of interest because of its simplicity. Patrons are given a room, tools and a variety of items and allowed to smash to their heart's content.Regarding the nomination for the Business...

04 April, 2023

Silverstone Leasing has been named as a finalist in this year’s SME Northamptonshire Business Awards.The award-winning vehicle leasing company has been shortlisted in the Family Business of the Year category, which recognises companies who combine their passion in business with their shared family values.The Northampton-based company has introduced flexible working within its workforce in the last 12 months, with working hours to allow all staff to meet family commitments. They employed two new part-time team members who work around school hours.Managing director Scott Norville has also employed his wife Sophie as the company accountant, who was previously working full-time in...

04 April, 2023

An award-winning accountancy firm, which helps local businesses to grow and scale, has expanded its offering in Northamptonshire by expanding into a second office and setting up a YouTube recording studio.N-Accounting, which is based in Burlington House on Wellingborough Road, is now occupying an additional office in the same building, giving the team extra space and providing more client opportunities.The office now offers a separate meeting room for client privacy, internal meetings and planning sessions for the company’s popular Quarterly Planning Days, the next of which takes place in June.The extra space is also being used to film content for...

04 April, 2023

Infrastructure for the charging of electric vehicles in North Northamptonshire has been given a boost with £3.25million from Government.The provisional funding includes £2,895,000 capital funds for purchasing and installation costs and a further £351,780 for planning and delivery.Bringing more on-street charging points into operation is seen as one of the main ways of making the use of electric vehicles more appealing and the funding will focus on areas with no, or very limited, off-street parking.Funding has been made available under the UK Government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) Fund and is dependent on suitable plans to be agreed by the...

04 April, 2023

Calling all entrepreneurs, charities, start-ups and businesses, small and large – The new NNBN awards ceremony has been launched, which covers the whole of Northamptonshire.County-wide membership organisation NNBN has today unveiled its latest offer – the Northamptonshire NNBN Awards 2023. There are 12 categories now open to enter, including business and charity of the year, one for start-ups and categories for food and drink, hair and beauty and health and wellbeing.Simon Cox, the co-founder of NNBN, said: “After successfully running the Kettering Business Awards for the last four years, we’re delighted to be expanding and opening this up to the...

03 April, 2023

Residents, businesses, and community groups have been given more time to comment on West Northamptonshire Council’s proposals to improve walking and cycling routes in the Abington Park area and encourage more active ways of travelling.People can provide their feedback on our consultation until midnight on Sunday 14 May. Following on from the initial comments from residents and additional requests for information, the consultation period has been further extended to provide an opportunity for people to provide their views.The Abington Park Area Active Travel scheme proposes the introduction of segregated cycleways and footways connecting Abington Park Crescent with Wellingborough Road, Bridgewater Drive,...

03 April, 2023

Calling all you avid golfers!  Northamptonshire Health Charity is looking for teams for their 8th annual Charity Golf Day on Thursday 14 September, raising money for projects to enhance facilities across all three of the local NHS Trusts it supports.Last year’s event raised £6,600 which was split between the appeal for the new outside play area for the children’s wards at Northampton General Hospital (NGH) and the Twinkling Stars Appeal for a new maternity bereavement suite at Kettering General Hospital.The funds raised this year will continue to benefit Twinkling Stars but it will also be split between the Daisy Suite...

03 April, 2023

New campaign launched today to help organisations save money on their energy bills by improving energy efficiency.A new campaign to help businesses, charities and public sector bodies increase their energy efficiency and drive down bills by making simple changes at low-to-no cost has been launched by the UK government today.The campaign, targeted at small and medium sized businesses, will offer guidance on how organisations can make significant savings while cutting emissions, from installing light and heating timers, to turning down boiler flow temperature and changing light bulbs.Many organisations are already aware of ways to boost their energy efficiency and have...

02 April, 2023