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Hampshire embraces ENSPIRE EU to encourage start-up businesses
Hampshire County Council and partners have been sharing entrepreneurial expertise with counterparts from Europe as part of the £2 million Interreg IVc funded ENSPIRE EU project that aims to inspire people to set up their own businesses.
Economic development leaders from regional and local government organisations in Romania, Cyprus, Slovenia and Denmark came to Hampshire to find out how three programmes, which are active in the county, are encouraging and supporting individuals to become entrepreneurs.
The European visitors were able to learn from leading representatives at the Prince’s Trust, Women’s Wisdom and the Hampshire School for Social Entrepreneurs, who explained the objectives of their programmes, how they operate and how they are financed.
Students from each scheme were also on hand to talk about how they came to be involved and how they have benefited from the programme. The students
explained how, as a result of their involvement in the programmes, they had developed personal skills in terms of confidence and developing a self-belief, as well as learned how to run a business including what is needed financially and legally.
ENSPIRE EU aims to find and share examples of successful projects that inspire people from disadvantaged communities to become entrepreneurs, helping to create a more entrepreneurial culture across Europe.
Within the remit of the scheme is the need to establish why Europeans are less likely to become self-employed than their peers in America and some other nationalities. The focus of the ENSPIRE EU project is to identify and develop measures that will change the situation, with a particular emphasis on young people, the long-term unemployed and those who are disabled.
The visit was part of a wider programme of knowledge exchange between the 12 European Union countries that make up ENSPIRE EU.
Paris Smith delivers for Braeforge
Paris Smith LLP has recently advised the Braeforge group, a major supplier of milk, on new industry investment of £2.25 million to increase the business’ capital base and prepare the company for future growth.
Bernard Plumb of Plumbs Dairy in Cambridgeshire, a long-standing customer and investor of the business, has taken a major stake in the new investment vehicle, Braeforge Investment. The existing management team, now led by Arthur Dunne, has transferred its shareholdings into the new parent company together with County Milk Products (CMP) the company’s main milk supplier, securing the company’s future raw
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milk supplies as well as providing invaluable support and industry expertise.
The new investment and investors will now provide a secure financial platform for the company, which now has a turnover in excess of £40m, to continue to expand organically through its extensive delivery network, which covers most of the south of England and South Wales.
Richard Swain of Paris Smith commented: “We are delighted to have advised on this transaction which brings together a well- respected and knowledgeable team to maximise the long-term potential of this successful business.“
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – SOLENT & SOUTH CENTRAL – JUNE 2012
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