Nottingham Community and Voluntary Service (CVS) is an IOEE Enterprise Academy with premises in the heart of the city. Business Development Manager Jules Sebelin talked to us about her organisation’s work and how its fresh IOEE status is shifting perceptions of how entrepreneurial thinking can...
David Morgan is Enterprise Partnership Lead at Novus, an IOEE Academy delivering SFEDI Awards qualifications. Working in more than 60 prisons located across five English regions, Novus deliver a diverse range of high-quality qualifications, preparing people to find employment upon their release...
Working in partnership, during March the IOEE and Enterprise Educators UK conducted a comprehensive survey of each organisations’ membership. We asked this diverse set of individuals for both their views and their experiences as enterprise education professionals. Here, we’re sharing the...
Enterprise learner Kerry Hector took part in an innovative scheme run by IOEE Enterprise Academy GGT Solutions on behalf of her social housing provider, A2Dominion Housing Association. The initiative gave her the skills, knowhow and funds to develop MovieMobil – a brilliant social...
In 2016 London’s City Business Library began using SFEDI professional qualifications to add value to its existing services. We spoke to Richard Wingate of Quality Leadership and Management (QLM) who delivered the training, as well as to some of the librarian learners themselves. London’s City...
PwC recently released their eighth annual Family Business Survey. This year, the results shone the spotlight on the potential impact on UK family businesses in the wake of the Brexit vote. The survey showed that family firms are facing new challenges, but that they remain confident and...
Paul Freeman is the CEO of PMH Digital Solutions; a mentoring business he founded to ‘promote the digital lifestyle’. It offers a range of digital products and courses to help people who are looking to discover how they can embrace digital opportunities in order to work for themselves, and get...
Simon Krystman, who has recently become an IOEE member, is the man behind IdeasPatch, an innovative route to funding the filing of patents for talented inventors, who often find themselves in a catch-22 situation of no-patent, no investment. We chatted to him about his unique business model and...
For March’s edition of Think Enterprise, the IOEE’s monthly newsletter, we interviewed IOEE Fellow Paul Boross. As well as being a respected authority on the art of excellent enterprise communications and someone who has worked with high street banks, household-name media corporations and...
Sam Everard is the woman behind the Samee Project, a unique, Bournemouth-based social enterprise that secured its IOEE Academy status in February. The Samee Projects helps individuals from disenfranchised backgrounds on the road to self-employment or employment. We chatted to Sam about her own...