Are you an employer wanting to take on a young person to train - a government scheme is offering employers a £2,500 grant towards wage costs (but hurry as this ends on 31st March 2010). SBC's Tees Achieve service can help you get started. For more information please use the following link www.stockton.gov.uk/apprenticeships
New February 2010
The Crowne Estate have announced the dates of a series of twelve UK supply chain events for the offshore wind industry. This developing industry is creating some of teh largets infrastructure projects in the world with a potential market investment of over £100 billion. Please follow the links below for details of forthcoming supply chain events linked to Round 3 Offshore Wind Programme
http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/newscontent/92-uk-supply-chain-events.htm
http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/uk-offshore-wind-events.pdf
To view the latest Contract Opportunities for london 2012 please view the following link;
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-3QZM-411E8JCC63/cr.aspxc - 01.03.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-3NEJ-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 22.02.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-3JZJ-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 15.02.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-3DMI-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 01.02.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-39Y9-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 25.01.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-378W-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 19.01.10
http://bene.org.uk/8MV-33RI-411E8JCC63/cr.aspx - 11.01.10
These opportunities are updated on a weekly basis.
Support For Business In The Current Economic Downturn
In partnership with Stockton Business Forum, Stockton Council is introducing a Business Registration Scheme. This is a website-based database which Council officers can use to identify local businesses when seeking quotations for a wide range of contract opportunities. It will also present potential for inter-trading between all companies on the database and tender opportunities are advertised on this web site.
Data from 2007/08 has indicated the Council's commercial spending was £163m totalling approximately 96,000 transactions with around 7,000 suppliers.
The aim of the Business Registration Scheme is to help local business compete for the contracts the Council awards by allowing officers to engage with local suppliers, service providers and contractors listed. The scheme will promote the diversity of the local economy across all Council Departments.
To register your business for this scheme and expand your working relationship with the Local Business Community, and learn what opportunities exist to work with Public Sector organisations sign up online now.
In addition members of the scheme will automatically receive a business E Bulletin, a short and punchy update on general business support initiatives.
NB: It must be emphasised that there is no guarantee of any work from Stockton Council if you register, but it will enable your company details to be viewed by Council officers, who may require your services.
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The Forum
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Next Meeting Tuesday 1st December 4.00pm Durham University Campus - Bank of England Speaker
The Forum meets quarterly. It covers a range of topics relevant to the local business community in order to consult with them and to ask for their involvement. The Forum welcomes new members from the business community, both large and small enterprises, throughout the Borough, particularly from the industrial and commercial sectors. There are no membership fees.
Aim:
The Business Forum will sustain and expand the working partnership between the local Business Community and Public Sector bodies.
Objectives:
1. To improve multi-directional communication, feedback and discussion between members of the Forum, the Local Authority and other agencies.
2. To enable local businesses to influence the content and timing of projects planned by Public Sector agencies, in the spirit of true partnership.
3. To promote and encourage initiatives that will have beneficial effect on the expansion of existing Stockton Businesses and those that will encourage new businesses to locate in Stockton-on-Tees.
4. To assess business need and identify opportunities that may be considered within the Local Strategic Partnership programme i.e. Stockton Renaissance.
5. To provide, through representation at board level, a business response to the Local Strategic Partnership - Stockton Renaissance.
Members can raise topics for discussion and a programme of meetings is arranged around these. Forum members also find the meetings to be a valuable source of up to date information on Regeneration Initiatives taking place in the Borough. The format is intended to enhance and open up the opportunities for more effective business involvement and influencing of policy through the Local Strategic Partnership mechanism.
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