Financial and Professional Roadshows

Learn about the Financial Opportunities in China and India as well the key challenges that businesses need to be aware of when looking to exploiting the overseas market.

http://www.ukti.gov.uk/export/countries/asiapacific/fareast/china/event/121014.html

Heathrow Area Supply Chain

LEARN HOW TO WIN BUSINESS - The Heathrow Area Supply Chain Programme is funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the LDA, Heathrow Airport Ltd and London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing. The programme of support is designed to help local businesses win contracts in the public and private sector supply chains, specifically with local councils and Heathrow Airport. Over £600,000 worth of funding is being spent over the next 3 years in order to achieve this.

http://www.business-business.co.uk/heathrowsupplychains/sc-prog.php

Supply Cross River

Supply Cross River is a new initiative led by the Cross River Partnership with funds from London European Regional Development Fund programme. It aims to open up Supply Chain and procurement opportunities to Small and Medium sized Enterprises across the Cross River region and promote supplier diversity and sustainable procurement to buyers. 

http://www.supplycrossriver.co.uk/

Winning Business Newcastle

Winning Business Newcastle is an initiative from Newcastle City Council proven to help Newcastle businesses increase their competitive advantage and win new business from large public and private sector organisations.

www.winningbusinessnewcastle.co.uk

SUSCIN

SUSCIN is able to provide a range of one to one and one to many support to SMEs, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic companies (BAMEs) and social enterprises in the South East region

http://www.suscin.org.uk/

Supply London

Supply London is a practical programme designed to provide relevant, in-depth support to London's Small Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to maximise their potential of winning new contracts with a specific focus on public sector procurement.

http://www.supplylondon.com/

YSDF

The purpose of the YSDF is to promote and support growth and build capacity within Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who deliver effective services and activities for young people in England, particularly the most disadvantaged.

Through a mixture of grant funding and business support we want to enable good third sector youth organisations to sustain and grow their provision, including strategies to diversify their income streams. Up to £100 million from April 2008 to March 2011 is available to support Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). 

http://ysdf.ecotec.com/

Built to Achieve

Built to Achieve is an on-going programme of workshops aimed at social enterprise and third sector organisations in the North East region.  The workshops are aimed at established organisations as well as individuals planning to set up and run a social enterprise or third sector company.  Built to Achieve provides practical, informal training to assist these companies to grow and succeed.

http://www.btob.co.uk/builttoachieve/

Built to Compete

This project took place over a two year period between 2006 and 2008 and successfully capacity built ESF funded organisation to grow and succeed.

Hear a range of views about Built to Compete.

Link: http://www.builttocompete.com

Built to Compete

This on-going project is designed to increase the capability of small and medium-sized enterprises in Croydon and to give them real opportunities to win business with the public sector.

Link: http://compete.croydonenterprise.com

Action Sustainability

Business to Business are an operations partner for this exciting social enterprise which has been set up to offer sustainable procurement training, SME sustainability awareness raising events, and sustainable Meet the Buyer events.

Link: http://www.actionsustainability.com/

Winning Business from Big Business

Winning Business from Big Business is a is a unique seminar programme designed to help small businesses increase their competitive advantage and win new business directly from large organisations, or within supply chains. This programme took place between February and April 2008 and consisted of 14 seminars covering all aspects of the procurement procurement process and looking specifically at certain industry sectors.

Link: http://www.procurementnortheast.co.uk

Public Procurement

This project was designed to help businesses in the North East to understand the nature of public procurement, where the opportunities lie, and how they could fit in to local supply chains.

Link: http://www.publicprocurement.co.uk/

Heathrow City Partnership

Business to Business acted as a marketing partner to this business support organisation which involved understanding their organisational values, who their key stakeholders were and where they wanted to take the organisation in the future. Amongst other areas this involved the creation of new marketing collateral.

GoSouthGo

This project initially took place from February to May 2007, and was continued in 2008.  The project was constructed to give small and medium-sized enterprises a greater understanding of where opportunities lay for them as a result of London 2012. This involved five seminars across South London and targeted the seven borough in this region. In total 275 attendees gained an in-depth understanding of the key issues surrounding the Games.

An online portal was created for this that contained a directory of 50 local purchasing organisations for each of the seven South London boroughs and acted as a focal point for event bookings. In addition to this five online web-based seminars were created to last beyond the life-time of the event and to allow attendees to share the knowledge they gained with their own organisation and spread the learning of the event.

A webinar was hosted for those who couldn’t attend the 2008 seminars, this can still be viewed at: http://mediazone.brighttalk.com/comm/BTOB/b90c469632-11188

Link: http://events.gosouthgo.co.uk/

Please click below to view the relevant seminars:

The Opportunity that Awaits You
The Olympic Opportunity
Understanding Local Government Procurement
How the Tender Process Works
EU Procurement Legislation
Developing and Communicating Your Unique Selling Point