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Our Programmes

Whether you just like the idea of working for yourself. Or maybe you have the business idea to beat all others. We have a programme that will help you get on the right path.

Pre-Start Programmes:

These programmes help you to develop a business idea:

Start-Up Programmes:

Our Start-Up programme will help you get on your feet and over the first few shaky months of trading:

Business Improvement Programmes

Our improvement programmes help you to move your business up to the next level.

 

Steps To Work Programme

Steps To Work (STW) is a new and fresh approach to assisting people find employment. This menu-based approach provides a flexible way to help you with your individual employment and training needs. For those who are serious about setting up their own business, this element offers the opportunity to move into supported self-employment. You will receive advice and support to set up and run your business for a period as well as receiving an allowance while remaining on Steps to Work. For details contact your local Jobs & Benefits office. You can find contact details for your local office here: www.nidirect.gov.uk

 

Social Entrepreneurship Programme

Social entrepreneurs have been described as people who bring innovative business solutions to the most pressing issues and problems affecting society. For us, they represent a key segment of our work.

Our Social Entrepreneurship Programme was established to address market failure issues and inefficiencies in social economy business start-ups, specifically their access to business support.

Core to our work in this programme is promoting sustainable models of finance, and providing capability support to help establish and develop businesses, especially those with the potential to grow.

For more information on the Social Entrepreneurship Programme II please contact audreymurray@lecomwbp.com or 028 2826 9973.

Provided by Invest Northern Ireland, funded by the European Union through its Peace and Reconciliation Programme.

 

Exploring Enterprise 2 Programme

Exploring Enterprise2 Programme is a pre-start programme which will support activities to extend the employment opportunities of unemployed, long-term unemployed and inactive people by helping them to enter, remain and make progress in sustained employment. There will be a focus on people with disabilities and health conditions, lone parents, older workers, young people not in education, employment or training, women and people with low or no qualifications.  Ultimately, EEP2 is designed to fill a gap in the provision of enterprise support by addressing the needs of people who are not yet ready to progress to self-employment and operates as a mechanism to develop a latent pool of entrepreneurship talent within NI’s most deprived communities / groups.

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Benefits:

 

For more information on this programme contact anna@causeway-enterprise.co.uk or call Anna on 028 70356318.

The Exploring Enterprise Programme is an initiative developed by Enterprise Northern Ireland and is supported by the European Social Fund, the Department for Employment and Learning, Enterprise Northern Ireland and the Local Enterprise Agencies, under Priority 1 of the Northern Ireland ESF Programme 2007 - 2013 for the period 1 April 2008 - 31 March.

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