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Using technology to increase profitability and sustainability – funding for feasibility studies
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A £1,000 PRIZE for the Hammersmith and Fulham media, fashion or software business with the best start up or growth plan for 2008-9 has been launched by The Business Support Agency, The Innovatory and UBS Bank.
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The BBC is currently searching for Britain's best entrepreneurs and will be auditioning throughout the coming months. Have you got what it takes to enter the Dragon's Den?
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Striding Out would like to hear from UK-based smal business owners who are planning or already running international partnerships, whether for trade, manufacture etc.
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You can apply for an award of up to £3,500 towards the cost of developing and implementing your business plan.
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COMING UP is the only talent scheme currently in the UK where emerging film-makers have the opportunity to make an authored drama with a guaranteed network broadcast.
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The scheme will offer an opportunity for emerging talent to host their own events at this year's Courtt's London Jewellery.
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Time for a business Spring Clean?
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Are you an up and coming artist, designer, creative living in Southwark?
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Craft Central is offering three awards open to crafts people.
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From 11th to 15th June 2008 London's jewellery industry will unite for the first time to celebrate the excellence of creative design in the capital.
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The Development Award assists makers in the early stages of their career with the purchase of equipment.
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Young people aged 14 - 30 living in the UK have the chance to square up to the biggest players in the music business with a virtual record label game.
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One-to-one professional development planning session, for beginner or intermediate writers.
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Applications are invited for the Cockpit Arts / NAFDAS Award which aims to help a talented designer-maker set up in business for the first time.
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My Money Matters aims to demistify finance and money matters and equip jewellers with the skills and knowledge they need to improve cash flow, profitability and financial planning.
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Free seminar with the UK's leading social media expert for artists and creative entrepreneurs
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Available to visual and applied artists who are a-n subscribers with AIR membership from 1 November 2007.
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Innovation Central helps new and burgeoning businesses in the Camden and Islington area to achieve their true potential. You can apply for an award of up to £3,500 towards the cost of developing and implementing your business plan.
The deadline for the current round of applications is 13th December.
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Are you a young entrepreneur in the creative industries or an innovative employee who has an idea and made it happen? Have you started a creative, social enterprise? Do you believe that your experiences could help to inspire other young people to be enterprising?
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Change-Act-Share have about £90k in grants available for New Jewellery Businesses operating less than 3 years based in or moving to Hatton Garden area.
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If you want to be working for your self – doing what you love to do – then this programme is for you
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Jumpstart Connect+ is a grant of up to £10,000 to help London-based Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) develop innovative products or processes.
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Designed for company owners and start-ups, the online business review helps you assess all areas of your business and then identify the key strengths and weaknesses. At the end, you will receive a full report highlighting areas to address and an action plan pointing you to a wealth of online resources including interactive tools and fact-sheets.
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Clerkenwell Green Association are offering full-time studios to let as a single unit or shared space with complementary disciplines working together.
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You're a creative business and are ready to move into your own workspace, or maybe you are a creative with a great business plan. Either way, Rich Mix is looking for you!
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Want to work for yourself but don't know where to start? Or do you have your own business but would love to learn some tips and tricks from the experts? We've put 11 past events online in our new
podcast section. They cover everything from marketing to commissions to that most elusive thing - making money as a fine artist. Each podcast features a speaker that has been there and can offer you expert advice. Visit
ECCA Podcasts for more info and to download to your MP3 player.
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Do you need cash for your business idea? The BBC are currently searching for Britain's best new entrepreneurs to face the Dragon investors in the Dragons' Den.
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Are you a creative company entrepreneur or manager seeking start-up or expansion capital? The Creative Capital Fund invests in promising early-stage creative industry businesses in Greater London. They are an independently-managed fund, now operational and already investing, which has £5 million of corner-stone funding provided by the London Development Agency and supported by Creative London.
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The following skills and development schemes aim to nurture the capital's film, TV and animation professionals and support the training sector.
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