24 | Spouses in Business and Employment
‘Supporting the UNSUNG Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
This award winning business start-up programme from the University of Wolverhampton has reached its five-year milestone, helping members of the Armed Forces community turn bright ideas into successful businesses.
As one of the original successful bids to the LIBOR fund in 2013, the programme has been in high demand from spouses and dependants of serving Armed Forces personnel, Veterans and Reservists to help them realise their ambition to start up and develop a business. Now in its fifth year, and sponsored by HSBC the training course and mentoring programme continues to grow in popularity and has already been attended by 640 delegates at MOD bases in the UK and overseas.
Supporting the Unsung Hero (SUH) Project Manager, Sarah Walker says: “We have come a long way since our first cohort in 2013 run from here at the University of Wolverhampton. To date we have delivered 42 courses throughout the UK at MOD bases from Scotland to Portsmouth and overseas in British Forces Germany, Belgium, Gibraltar and Cyprus. It is overwhelming to see that we have been able to positively influence more than 640 Armed Forces families who have gone on to start their business journey, with many now entering their third and fourth year of trading,”
“the community network is very supportive and has made a really positive impact on the lives of many of our members”
Over the years SUH has been fine-tuned to become the leading, FREE business training programme designed specifically to meet the needs of Armed Forces families and has become widely acknowledged and appreciated for its delivery of first class coaching, setting the benchmark for business training provision for the service community. ‘Supporting the Unsung Hero’s’ endeavours in terms of championing entrepreneurship in the military community has created opportunities for wider engagement with the MOD and contributed to several research consultations relating to spousal education and employment. It has also enabled a new community of military entrepreneurs to network, support each other and in some cases this has led to new business collaboration and skill-sharing.
To celebrate and mark this anniversary the team has announced they will be honoring five current delegates who have embraced all the programme
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