A Yorkshire Wide Support Service
As the new government contemplates how business support should be organised we all need to lobby the government. Having announced the abolition of Business Link and Yorkshire Forward and their apparent enthusiasm for Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEP) comprising of local authorities and business we need to decide what would serve business best a sub- regional service run by LEPs or a Yorkshire wide service run for the whole of Yorkshire.
I can't help thinking that having say 4 LEPs (e.g. Leeds, Sheffield, Hull and the Humber and North Yorkshire), would lead to more bureaucracy and probably lower quality help. Connect Yorkshire draws help from successful entrepreneurs throughout Yorkshire and the Humber. By "successful" I mean that they have built substantial businesses employing over 50/100, or run such businesses and have a lot to teach up and coming entrepreneurs. But there aren't that many in Yorkshire and the Humber and their help needs to be focused.
We must concentrate on the best up and coming companies; those that are going to make a major contribution to our economy. They need help from those with a proven track record.
So a Yorkshire wide organisation providing business support is needed. The Yorkshire Post and others have been calling for this and we at Connect Yorkshire support their efforts.
Have your say by posting your comments; I would be very interested to hear your views.
4 comments:
You have our support Connect Yorkshire - keep up the good work.
There was a 'frittering away' of budgets around radio advertising when the previous regime were in 'office'. This is the chance to use an independent Yorkshire radio advertising specialist to get TRUE value for money... US!
I couldn't agree more Nick! There should be a level playing field across the whole of Y&H. It was bad enough when ERDF skewed support levels. It makes total sense to have a consistent offer for all businesses and entrepreneurs.
hi everybody
great forum lots of helpful people just what i need can anybody tell me how they have built there list for people interested in marketing
hopefully this is just what im looking for, looks like i have a lot to read Im trying to find a way to build an e-mail list.
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