PARTNERS AND SPOUSES IN BUSINESS
BUSINESS START-UPS RECEIVE ‘OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS’
“I still attend mentoring sessions and local meet-ups where it is nice to share experiences with people. The showcase day was aparticular highlight and Iwas really pleased and surprised to win my cohort award for Best Business. These events and the Facebook group are great for support and advice. It’s also great to support other people –there are some fantastic services and products that I have purchased from. Iwould encourage anyone who is thinking about starting a business to join this programme.”
The University’s Head of Work-based Learning, Dr Alison Felce said: “I have seen so many talented ladies and gentlemen grasp the opportunity to achieve their ambition and start their own business over the past two years. Amilitary spouse has to overcome many barriers to maintaining continuous and meaningful employment. Setting-up in business is a practical solution for some Service families who are living anomadic lifestyle as they move every two to three years with the military.‘Supporting the Unsung Hero’ is successful because it meets areal need within the Armed Forces’ community as demonstrated by the 260 service dependants who have attended the course and the nine worthy,award winners.”
The programme is in high demand from Service families and in 2014 received significant investment of £600,000 from the HSBC bank to expand the programme throughout the UK and overseas. The programme has been delivered in MOD Cyprus and MOD
Germany.The Ministry of Defence also awarded an extra £120,000 of Armed Forces Covenant LIBOR funding to support programme expansion into phase two this year.
Simon CMartin, Head of Global Corporate Sustainability said: “This is the second year of HSBC’s support for the Armed Forces Dependents’ Business Start-Up Programme, “Supporting the Unsung Hero” and we were delighted to host this year’s event. This programme benefits the dependents of service personnel and we are proud of the work we do with the
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Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Small and Medium Enterprises are central to the UK economy,providing the majority of employment and contributing asignificant proportion of GDP.”
The programme is delivered by the University of Wolverhampton’s Business Solutions Centre and is also part of the New Employment Model’s Partner Employment Programme (PEP)
of which adouble-page flyer is included in the Winter ’15 edition of Envoy (email
enquiries@raf-ff.org.uk for a free copy to be sent to you).
For further information about the programme contact The University of Wolverhampton on 01902 321677 or Email:
mod-enquiries@wlv.ac.uk, Web:
www.wlv.ac.uk/ supportingtheunsunghero
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