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Bassetlaw District Council

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Town Centre Shopfront Grant

Grants of up to £20,000 are on offer to new and existing independent businesses to improve their shop frontage.

More information on our website >>

Alternatively, why not visit one of our drop-in events, where you can get more information. These are taking place in Retford, Tuxford and Worksop Town Centres.

Retford

Retford Town Hall, DN22 6DB

Monday 17 June, 2pm-6pm

Tuxford

Museum of the Horse, NG22 0LA

Tuesday 18 June, 2pm-6pm

Worksop

The Bridge Skills Hub, S80 1DT

Wednesday 26 June, 2pm-6pm

Business Planning Workshop

Retford Enterprise, Retford, DN22 7GR Tuesday 2 July 10am – 4pm This workshop will walk you through the easy steps you need to take when exploring new business ideas or getting ready to launch your own venture, from conducting market research to reviewing your cash flow. It will also examine funding opportunities for your business. To reserve a place or for more information, send an email to fiona.humpage@bassetlaw.gov.uk, the Business Advice & Support Officer.

Social Media Marketing Workshop

Middletons Yard, Worksop, S80 2FT Thursday 4 July 10am - 4pm Looking for a cost effective way to market your company? If used properly, social media can be a method! We are providing start-ups and more established businesses with the chance to participate in a FREE session that will assist their business in creating a plan to make the most of social media and target the right audience. The session will examine Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms. Please email Fiona Humpage, Business Advice & Support Officer, at fiona.humpage@bassetlaw.gov.uk for more details or to reserve a spot.

Accelerator Events in June/July in Bassetlaw

Getting Started with ChatGPT. This one-day action planning workshop is designed to introduce you to the powerful world of ChatGPT. This workshop is a fantastic opportunity for business owners and marketing managers at SMEs to understand and adopt AI in their business strategy.

Thursday 13 June, 9.30am – 4.00pm. The Bridge Skills Hub, Worksop, S80 1DT.

Practical Guide to Leadership and Management. Introducing the essential leadership and management skills which must be mastered to facilitate growth of teams and a business.

Thursday 18 July 2024. 9.30am – 4.00pm. The Bridge Skills Hub, Worksop, S80 1DT.

Accelerator events in June in Nottinghamshire

Here is a selection of the accelerator events happening around Nottinghamshire in June.

Wordpress Masterclass. Tuesday 25 June. 9.30am – 4.00pm. Mansfield Innovation Centre, Hamilton Way, Mansfield, NG18 5BR.

Negotiating Sales through Excellent Customer Service. Wednesday 26 June. 9.30am – 4.00pm. Strelley Hall, Main Street, Strelley, Nottingham, NG8 6PE.

Developing your Email Marketing Plan. Thursday 27 June. 9.30am – 4.00pm. Rushcliffe Arena, Rugby Road, Nottingham, NG2 7HY.

East Midlands Manufacturing Network

Dedicated support for Manufacturers across Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Nottinghamshire. Join East Midlands Manufacturing Network and take advantage of industry specific insights, knowledge, and skills to help your manufacturing business grow and thrive. Book your place on the next Manufacturing Network:

• 11 June | Nottinghamshire | NTU University, Mansfield
• 25 June | Derby | Enterprise Centre, Derby
• 03 July | Nottingham | Nottingham University, Jubilee Campus
• 05 July | Leicestershire | Loughborough University, Leicestershire
• 12 July | Derbyshire | Specialised Canvas, Chesterfield

More details or sign up

Start-Up Bootcamp

Starting up a new business? NBV are delivering a series of two-day Start-Up Bootcamps in Nottinghamshire. If you have a business idea or need support with starting a new venture, join the next Bootcamp!

Thursday 20 and Friday 21 June: Online.

These bootcamps are only available to individuals residing in the local authority areas Bassetlaw, Broxtowe, Mansfield and Rushcliffe. Book your place.

Further events can be found on the D2N2 website.

Multiply Scheme

Nottinghamshire County Council has been awarded funding to improve numeracy skills across the county, thanks to the Multiply scheme.  Working in conjunction with Futures Multiply offers easy access to free numeracy courses and initiatives that can help brush up your maths skills and help you become more confident with numbers.

Futures, a local careers advice, employment support and training company are offering free training through Multiply funding. The solutions on offer are tailored to address your employees and businesses specific needs. Whether that be improving household finances and budgets, helping children with homework, or improving numeracy skills specific to a line of work.

By participating in Futures’ Multiply programme, your business and employees can experience a range of benefits:

• Enhanced Performance: Encouraging employees to increase their numerical skills can reduce numeracy related mistakes at work, resulting in improved productivity and efficiency and profits.
• Personal and Professional Confidence: Multiply not only boosts employees’ confidence with numbers in their work tasks but also empowers them in their personal lives, fostering overall growth and success.
• Cost of Living Support: Multiply can help employees with managing their household finances through understanding budgeting, saving, mortgages, interest rates and inflation.
• Employee Engagement: Lockdown showed us how important an understanding of Maths can be in supporting our children's education. Multiply sessions will show you the Maths that is being taught at school and help you understand the concepts and how it is delivered in the classroom. This is a fantastic benefit to offer employees who are parents or carers of children to boost their confidence in helping their children with maths homework.
• Motivated Workforce: By offering Multiply as a training opportunity, you inspire your employees to pursue forms of workplace training, enhancing their engagement and motivation.
• Internal Career Progression: With Multiply, you support your employees’ professional growth within your organisation, providing them with the necessary skills to advance and take on new challenges.

Sessions are short, snappy and delivered in an engaging manner. Futures can design bespoke sessions at no cost to the employer or employee.

To make the most of this opportunity your employees need to be 19 years plus, either not hold a level 2 Maths qualification or passed a Level 2 Maths qualification a long time ago and need a refresher.

For more information reach out directly to Pete McCreery: pete.mccreery@the-futures-group.com / 07918 906118

Volunteers for the Priory Gatehouse

Are you interested in the Heritage and importance of the Priory Gatehouse, a unique 14^th Century Grade 1 listed building?

With the help of Historic England, Nottinghamshire County Council and Bassetlaw District Council, essential repairs have nearly finished, and the next chapter of the Gatehouse story is set to chart an exciting and dynamic journey into the future.

If you would love get involved go to Worksop Priory & Gatehouse Community Trust and see what they have already achieved, and if you would like to volunteer to support their work, contact them at info@wpgct.org.uk

Placement opportunity for Digital T-Levels students at RNN.

Digital T-Level students at North Notts College are looking for placement opportunities, within a digital environment as part of their T-Level in Digital Production, Design and Development course.

The students are now six-months into their programme and available to undertake industry placement, unpaid, for a minimum of 45 days (315 hours).

Is this something your organisation can offer these students? If so, or you want to find out more, please contact Gary Toon, Skills Consultant at RNN Group. Email gary.toon@rnngroup.ac.uk or call on 01909 504 788.

Bassetlaw Focus on Farmers

Following extensive engagement with farming and agricultural communities, partners across the district are working together to provide tailored mental health support.

More than 70 farming and agricultural workers responded with their thoughts on mental health provision.

Bassetlaw Place Based Partnership, along with other partners across the district are now working together to Focus on Farmers and signpost them to the wealth of help and support they can access. The top five areas were:

• Mental health
• Community support
• Physical health
• Cancer screening and support

The Bassetlaw Focus on Farmers scheme aims to dispel some of the myths and misconceptions those farmers told us they had around accessing mental health services in Bassetlaw, particularly around confidentiality.

For more information, events and support, visit their website. Alternatively, Focus on Farmers is now on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.