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Links
Networks
Women's Enterprise in the Humber - http://www.women-entrepreneurs.co.uk/
Free informal & relaxed business development workshops
Assistance with identifying grant opportunities
We go that extra mile
Providing childcare and travel facilities whenever possible to ensure women with small children, or those without transport are not excluded from participation at our workshops and networking events.
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We are happy to discuss this programme with you further. You can either telephone us on 0845 129 8376 or send an email to: mf@durban-online.co.uk WorcNet - http://www.worcnet.co.uk/
Providing access to information and training, helping remove barriers for women returners and women entrepreneurs.
Advancing Women in South Yorkshire - http://www.advancingwomen.org.uk/
A partnership led by Beta Technology and funded through the Learning and Skills Council and The European Social Fund through Objective 1 to support women and increase their representation in three key areas in South Yorkshire Prowess - http://www.prowess.org.uk/
PROWESS is a UK-wide advocacy network that supports the growth of women's business ownership through the development of an effective women-friendly business support infrastructure and enterprise culture. Let's Twist - http://letstwist.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/index.htm
This web site is designed to take you through the wide range of support services, courses, events and activities that we can offer both for women and girls and for employers, careers professionals and schools and learning providers.
Women's Training Network - http://www.wtn.org.uk/index.htm
Developing and delivering training and support programmes for women, primarily in non-traditional skills.
Cultural Industries Development Agency (CIDA) - http://www.cida.co.uk/
If you're a creative individual or are involved in a creative project and need help, you'll find it here, whatever stage you're at.
We support those working in all areas of the creative and cultural industries - in fact almost any creative sector you can think of!
WIRE - http://www.wireuk.org/
Women in Rural Enterprise, WiRE, is a dynamic networking and business club set up to help you start and maintain your own rural enterprise. Women into the Network - http://www.networkingwomen.co.uk
Women Into the Network (WIN) is a networking initiative based at Durham Business School, which facilitates the development of women's businesses. Women's Environment Network - Http://www.wen.org.uk/
WEN is a unique, vital and innovative campaigning organisation, which represents women and campaigns on issues, which link women, environment and health. Women into Science & Engineering - http://www.setwomenresource.org.uk/
WISE has a range of initiatives and publications to give
girls and women more information about opportunities and careers in SET. The Daphne Jackson Trust - http://www.daphnejackson.org/
The Daphne Jackson Trust enables scientists, engineers and IT specialists to return to work after career breaks
Women in Property Network - http://www.wip.propertymall.com/
A dynamic forum for the professional development of women in the property and construction industry - to enhance business opportunities, exchange views, network and gain knowledge. It is a unique organisation with a multi-disciplined membership drawn from across the property and construction industry, consultants to client side.
With membership hitting 1000 senior professionals represented in nine regions the network has strength and depth.
The organisation seeks to promote the role of women in a wider business community and to encourage women to take up and develop their careers. Women in Property, has since 1987, maintained a constructive and supportive environment providing members with the industry intelligence and skills they need to facilitate business networking. Women Builders Ltd - www.womenbuilders.co.uk
To promote equality of opportunity and help address the under-representation of women in the construction industry through employment-targeted training and the successful operation of a building company staffed primarily by women.
Business & Professional Women UK Ltd - http://www.bpwuk.co.uk
The Home Page of Business and Professional Woman UK Limited. BPW UK , the leading organisation for working women, with links around the world Art Connections - http://www.art-connections.org.uk/
Art Connections is a new project - initiated and managed by Chrysalis Arts - to develop and support creative businesses in the visual arts, crafts and public art sectors across North Yorkshire. Women's Engineering Society - http://www.wes.org.uk
WES was formed in 1919 when women engineers were a new breed in a male dominated environment. Because of their own sense of isolation, early members wanted to help women engineers to meet and exchange ideas on common interests, training and employment. In that first year the Society's Journal The Woman Engineer was published, appearing regularly ever since.
Women in Business - South - http://www.wib.org.uk/
Women in Business offers support, friendship, business training and the opportunity to tap into the immediate network of contacts that exists with Women in Business through Kent, Sussex and Essex
Business Information
York & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce - http://www.ynycc.com
Serving the diverse needs of businesses throughout the City of York and the County of North Yorkshire. BCC - http://www.chamberonline.co.uk/
The BCC represents the views and priorities as reflected across the Chamber Network and undertakes proactive pieces of research and policy development and responds to Government consultation. Yorkshire Forward - http://www.yorkshire-forward.com/
Yorkshire Forward is the Regional Development Agency responsible for the sustainable economic development and regeneration of the Yorkshire and Humber area.
NYMAC - http://www.nymac.co.uk
NYMAC is a non profit company, limited by guarantee, and is the only government funded Business Advice Agency within the Borough of Scarborough and within the Northern Ryedale area. It is fully supported by it’s founder members – Scarborough Borough Council and Ryedale District Council, and is the local sub franchisee of Business Link York and North Yorkshire. Yorkshire Association of Business Angels - http://www.yaba.org.uk/
Yorkshire Association of Business Angels (YABA) is a unique regional forum which brings together the finance and business expertise of Business Angels with entrepreneurs and their new business ideas.
Creative York - http://www.sciencecityyork.org.uk/creative/
Creative York is a community of creative individuals and enterprises working with innovative and traditional technologies in arts, media and heritage contexts. It is one of three clusters that are part of the Science City York initiative, and aims to support the economic and cultural prosperity of York.
Membership of Creative York is free and informal, and is open to all those working in creative technology, arts and heritage organisations in York and its surrounding area. Cluster members are able to access business support from Science City York, take part in regular networking events, and access the Creative York on-line virtual business network.
Growing Routes - http://www.growingroutes.co.uk/
Growing Routes helps people under 45 years old, living in rural parts of Yorkshire and the Humber, to start new businesses.
Springboard Business Centre, Stokesley - http://www.springboardbusinesscentre.co.uk/
An exciting and prestigious development, located in a magnificent setting, offering a new generation of support
for knowledge and technology based growth-orientated business.
The Springboard Business Centre provides fully serviced office & work-space accommodation in an environment that provides access to vital support services, knowledge & facilities, needed to help new & young businesses to survive those early years.
York Science Park - http://www.yorksciencepark.co.uk/
York Science Park is a purpose built environment for science, technology and knowledge based companies, benefiting from direct links to the University of York.
Yorkshire Rural CC - http://www.williamhouse.co.uk/
Yorkshire Rural Community Council (YRCC) is an independent voluntary organisation working across rural areas of North, South & West Yorkshire and the City of York.
Small Business Service - http://www.sbs.gov.uk/
This website provides the public, researchers, the media, and policy makers with information about who we are and what we are doing. Striding Out - http://www.stridingout.co.uk/
Striding Out is a pioneering support network for young people, aged 18-30, with enterprising ambitions.
Our Focus: We aim to inspire - motivate - stimulate you, to move your business forward with ultimate confidence and positive energy. To open doors to new opportunities, and provide you with the right personal and professional skills, to enable you to become a successful entrepreneur and business pioneer.
York-England.com - http://www.york-england.com/
A site which provides news and information for anyone who is considering York & North Yorkshire as a business location or who is one of York's many Ambassadors around the world.
Tax Credits - Inland Revenue - https://www.taxcredits.inlandrevenue.gov.uk
9 out of 10 families with children are entitled to tax credits. But you don't need to have children to qualify. Click what are tax credits to find out how much you could get and claim online. CITB - http://www.citb.org.uk/
CITB-ConstructionSkills provides assistance in all aspects of recruiting, training and qualifying the construction workforce. We also work with partners in industry and government to improve the competitiveness of the industry as a whole.
Inland Revenue - http://www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/
The Inland Revenue is here to ensure that everyone understands and receives what they are entitled to and understands and pays what they owe, so that everyone contributes to the UK's needs. Equalitec - http://www.equalitec.org.uk
The Equalitec: Advancing Women in ITEC project is a partnership of key players: employers, professional bodies, and organisations working towards a more equal representation and involvement of women in science, engineering and technology. The lead partner is Portia. The project is funded in part from the European Social Fund, under the Equal Programme. The main goal of Equal is to help disadvantaged groups to participate more fully in the labour market.
The general aim of Equalitec is to develop and test a range of intervention tools to assist in the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in ITEC; addressing in particular the needs of women at higher skills levels who have taken a career break, or have experienced a period of unemployment and find the return to the workplace difficult.
The motivation for the project covers several core issues contributing to the problem of the under-representation of women in ITEC. These include: the persistently low numbers of women choosing to study and work in ITEC; the loss of mid-career women from the ITEC labour force; the anticipated demand for higher level ITEC skills; the role of ITEC as a driver for change in the demand for skills outside the ITEC sector; and the obstacles faced by women returning to the workplace after a career break.
Education
NYBEP (North Yorkshire Business and Education Partnership) - http://www.nybep.org.uk
NYBEP is the lead body for education business links in the City of York and North Yorkshire. We support mutually beneficial links between education and business by managing high quality programmes for students in readiness for their working life. University of York - http://www.york.ac.uk/
From its inception, the University has concentrated on strong viable departments and teaching and research of the highest quality. The quality of York's teaching has received many accolades. York and Cambridge top the teaching league with the highest scores in official teaching assessments.
League table positions are available at www.york.ac.uk/admin/presspr/pressreleases/timesleague.htm
York is also rated 6th out of 172 Higher Education institutions for research, with 18 of its 23 departments rated 5 or 5*. In the last Research Assessment Exercise, carried out by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2001, York out performed all the large civic universities, see the full set of results here. York St John College - http://www.yorksj.ac.uk
If you need any advice about courses, entry requirements or how to apply, please contact our Information Hotline. One of our team will be happy to help.
Tel: 01904 716598
E-mail: admissions@yorksj.ac.uk
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