Wokingham Borough Council’s ongoing drive to help unemployed people to help themselves will take another step forward this month (January) with the launch of a business start-up course for out-of-work tenants. The course will be run by Enterprise Cube, which specialises in dynamic and interactive learning,...
Cross Keys Homes has recently held a Dragons Den style event for fifteen budding entrepreneurs who have recently completed a twelve week business start-up course. The successful candidates will receive a share of a pot of money towards their business start-up costs. The participants in the...
The Strive programme with Daventry District Homes and South Northhants Homes that was held every Wednesday finished last week. The pictures shown below are from the Awards Ceremony that was held on Wednesday 4th December 2013, where all the Strivers presented their business ideas to...
Budding entrepeneurs from the Royal Borough are well on the way to starting their own businesses after graduating from the Strive start your own business programme. The participants of the scheme had to pitch their businesses to a 'Dragon's Den-style' panel at the Macdonald Windsor Hotel, who...
"We knew it was possible to do so much more." says Richard Lanning "It was great to throw out all of the old assumptions, go back to the drawing board and design a training programme with no limitations. I think that what we've created...
The Strive programme that started on Monday, September 2nd 2013 has now come to an end. Shown below are the striving group on the last day of the course when an Awards Ceremony was held. Participants presented their ideas to get start up funding to...
Launching in autumn 2012, Engage will introduce a new range of social enterprise training for managers within larger organisations....
Would you like to be able to build your own website and edit it when you need to? This workshop will teach you how to create a Wordpress site using clever templates and create a professional website in just a few hours....
Ever wondered how to get the cash to start up your dream business? Come along to this workshop which will teach you how to present your business to funders, and win that all important start up funding. ...
Paul and Richard are running a two day refresher course for anyone who has previously been on one of their programmes. If you feel like you need a refresher, come along and get back up to speed on the essential steps to starting up in...
For this fortnight’s social we’re sticking with our belief that, “Business is Fun!” by turning our office desks into table tennis tables. Get ready for a tournament!...
As well as our Open Day where we'll be showing off our new pop-up community business hub and giving tours to sector professionals, there will also be free website tutoring and another Common Cause event on this jam packed day! ...
Would you like to be able to build your own website and edit it when you need to? This workshop will teach how to create a WordPress site using clever templates to create a professional website in just a few hours....
This popular accountancy workshop from Simon will be in the morning on Friday and Alan from K&O will also be joining us on Friday afternoon and will be available to provide marketing advice for your business....
Come be part of our fortnightly social. This time we’ll be showing a business themed film with free popcorn. Come along for a chance to see some entrepreneurs on the big screen and spend the evening with other striving start-ups....
This a chance for those who've already attended a business course by the Enterprise CUBE to catch-up with their trainers and their peers. This time, we're offering all past graduates a free training session on designing a POP-UP shop and giving them a chance...
Tuesday 9th July 2013 Genesis Centre for Unlocking Business for Everyone3rd Floor 3 Creed Court, 5 Ludgate Hill, near St Paul's, London, EC4M 7AAOur exciting new community enterprise centre, the Genesis C.U.B.E is opening it's doors so you can get a chance to see how it works. At...
The CUBE team recently completed a 12 week Strive Further programme based in Riverside's homeless hostel in Bromley. The programme helped to give business skills a great group who went on to present their businesses to a panel of Riverside staff and business leaders at...
In June we start another really exciting project with the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. We are running a Strive Start Up business programme training local residents in an empty retail space which at the end of the programme they’ll have the chance to...
We're pleased to announce we’ll soon be embarking on our next set of Strive programmes across England. Up to 175 disadvantaged and local entrepreneurs will join us as we launch seven new Strive programmes during 2013 with a great collection of partners which include: Affinity...
The Genesis C.U.B.E. is a pop-up community business hub just 100yds from the doors of St Paul’s Cathedral in the heart of the City of London. The CUBE team found this amazing space and has partnered with Genesis Community to make it available to entrepreneurs...
Over 20 of Genesis Housing Association's staff have been hard at work today helping to build our new Centre for Unlocking Business for Everyone (CUBE). Hard at work you can see two amazing volunteers carefully creating a mural based on the work of artist, Dan...
Affinity Sutton’s online course offers people across the country a way to get one-to-one and personalised support from the Enterprise CUBE central support team. After the programmes, graduates impressed Affinity Sutton and won a total over £30,000 of grants last year. The CUBE team are...
Genesis recently invited four of their Strive graduates to showcase their products to over a thousand people at their national staff conference. Enterprise CUBE's Paul Funnell joined them for what was an exciting and succesful first event for many of the businesses. Staff were won over...
Theresa May, Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities, joined Housing Solutions in presenting their residents numerous start-up support packages as they graduated from their Strive Further Start-up training programme. "It’s a great day and exciting to see the great work [Enterprise CUBE] are...
Resident Showcase SWEET EDUCATION Nikki Hanlon Nikki’s Business sweet education offers a customers a blast from the past in the form of sweets from your childhood. No matter what your age, Sweet Education can give offer you treat you once eagerly bought with hard saved pocket money. A.B....
The first annual Grass Roots Enterprise conference took place at the Oxford House a community space which support social enterprise in Bethnal Green. A hundred sector professionals attended the day and met community members, resident entrepreneurs and enterprise support agencies like the Enterprise CUBE. The Grass...
The Enterprise CUBE has today started an exciting Strive Further programme that will work with 10 residents from a homeless background to start their own businesses. With two experienced entrepreneurs leading the scheme over the next twelve weeks, those starting today will be supported through...
Today saw the Housing Solutions host the first day of their Strive, which will help local residents to start their own business over the next 12weeks. Housing Solutions innovative support for their residents’ business aspirations has made them one of the leaders in the housing...
The first Grassroots Enterprise conference took place yesterday, and was judged to be a real success the professionals and community members who attended. There have been calls for the event to be repeated and for a Northern version of the event to take place in...