INVITATION TO TENDER -  PROVISION OF BUSINESS START UP SUPPORT

Enterprise Hub (EH) is a comprehensive entrepreneurship promotion and business support programme, which will foster the creation of new enterprises from pre start to early stage businesses. Providing assistance to 6360 potential-entrepreneurs and helping create 1272 new business ventures. The Enterprise Hub will reach and provide high quality business brokerage and business support services to a diverse customer profile e.g. graduate, female and BME would be entrepreneurs; resulting in the creation of high value SMEs and social businesses across all sectors and providing a simplified route for customers to access the support when and how they need it.

The Enterprise Hub is a consortium of partner organisations of which Merseyside Expanding Horizons is one.

We are seeking delivery sub–contractors to support the engagement of entrepreneurs to the programme and provide start –up enterprise support services.

The target beneficiary group are people living in Merseyside who face a range of barriers to enterprise e.g. low confidence and self-esteem; unemployment, unstable or temporary employment; low educational qualifications; lone parent status; benefit dependency; ex offender status; lack of access to finance and networks; credit rationing; age; mental health issues or long term illness The complex nature of exclusion and discrimination that excluded groups face requires additional investment to equalise opportunity in starting their own business. We are seeking providers to engage with and develop initial entrepreneurial aspirations with people from the following demographic profiles in Liverpool City Region:

• BME groups
• Disabled people
• Young people / NEET young people     
• Long term unemployed people
• Lone parents
• Women returners to the labour      market
• Older people
• People in receipt of benefits
• People with language, literacy      or numeracy issues
• Parents and carers
• People living in deprived wards

We are seeking to procure suitable provider of enterprise engagement services targeting women in the Liverpool City Region and in particular targeting women form disadvantaged communities.

To respond to the tender please complete the following information request

Enterprise_Hub_Start_Up_SupportMEHEH03.docx

and return it by 5pm on the 8^th May 2016 to:

Joe Hemington

Merseyside Expanding Horizons

Mill Lane

Old Swan

Liverpool

L13 5TF

joehemington@expandinghorizons.co.uk

In March 2015 Merseyside Expanding Horizons was awarded by the Lottery Funded to create a monthly Community Makers Market in Old Swan.

The Community Makers Market aims to make Old Swan a bet­ter place to live by encour­aging the devel­op­ment of the are
a through social and eco­nomic features. 

The Community Makers Market allows to :

- Promote the social cohesion by giv­ing an opportunity to people to meet in a free social space
- Provide an opportunity to  loc­als to show­case their skills and talents through their stalls

- Encour­age entrepreneurship

- Boost the local economy

- Enjoy the community

The Community Makers Market will be held the 3rd Saturday of every month at the Joseph Lappin Centre

Mill Lane, Old Swan, Liverpool, L13 5TF

10am-4pm

For Information:

info@communitymakersmarket.co.uk    

www.communitymakersmarket.co.uk

T. 0151 3300552 

We currently support a great project developed by young people from our community: iSpeak!

The iSpeak application will provide an effective tool for Deaf without speech and aurally impaired people who use sign language, to communicate with hearing people unable to use sign language. It helps break down communication barriers in everyday life situations such as hospitals, job centres, restaurants, shops. Thus, deaf and aurally impaired people can express themselves through the application, reducing the communication and social barriers they face and in doing so giving them independence.

We have submitted  an entry to the Aviva Community Fund, we now need votes from as many people as possible to increase our chances of winning  this funding.

Please, click here, register, log in and if you like our iSpeak project vote for us (you can give us up to 10 votes per person!).

Have a look at the iSpeak video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQ9NmMlBmk&feature=youtu.be