Welcome to the latest Business & IP Centre Nottinghamshire newsletter. Our business support is completely free for entrepreneurs and small to medium sized enterprises in the Nottinghamshire region, due to funding through the British Library. If you would like to find out more about how we can help, please contact our team of Advisors for further support.
Digital Marketing and Social Media – Beginner session
Thursday 4 November, 10.00 - 11.00
Cover the essentials of establishing your digital marketing and getting your business seen online. Social media and getting online can be a daunting place for new businesses, and this session delivered by Andy Barton will help provide you the confidence and knowledge needed to thrive online. Andy is featured in our Partner Spotlight this month - read more about his expertise below.
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Digital Marketing and Social Media – Advanced/Intermediate session
Thursday 18 November, 10.00 - 11.00
Once you have the basics, why not take your digital marketing and social media to the next level? This follow-on webinar is suitable for those who already have marketing platforms such as social media and websites and are ready to make the most out of what the platforms can offer.
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Intellectual Property Clinics
Tuesday 9 or Monday 29 November
Our IP Clinics offer you free one-to-one sessions with an attorney or solicitor from Potter Clarkson who can talk through your options for protecting your work and ensuring others don’t profit from it, such as, patents, trademarks or registered designs.
Join intellectual property specialists Louise or Christie for either Tuesday 9 November or Monday 29 November.
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Making my Cash go Further
Tuesday 30 November, 10:00 – 11:00
Essential advice for creating cash-flow forecasts and how to accommodate tax and legalities so you can make a profit.
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 Inspired by COP26, our November Business Club will discuss how start-ups and businesses can keep a "Green" ethos at the centre of their business vision and how eco-friendly practices can help with longevity, accessing new markets and saving money, whilst also protecting our planet. We’ll be joined by guest speaker David Kelly, Project Manager for the Accelerating Reduction in Carbon (ARC) project, and facilitator Mark Dunwell from Smorgasbord.
 And we are back for our biggest day of the year, Start-up Day! On Thursday 11 November 2021 join our action-packed day of free business support, with everything you need to turn your idea into a reality.
This free event will provide top tips you need as you think about launching your business idea, look at some of the pitfalls you should avoid and helps you consider how to make your business more sustainable in a constantly changing world.
We can offer you a whole host of one-to-one appointments with experts and advisors who can point you in the right direction no matter your size, stage or location. Our mentors and advisors are friendly, experienced, and confidential.
Business Surgeries with Sheridan Chilvers from D2N2 Growth Hub
Business Surgeries throughout November will be themed on:
- 10 November: Funding, Grants, and Investment (All Businesses)
- 24 November: Planning for 2022 (All Businesses)
If you’re looking for funding or need support with thinking about your plans for 2022 don’t miss the opportunity to have a one-to-one chat with Sheridan. Sheridan is also featured in our Partner Spotlight this month and you can read more about his expertise below.
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 Build a Website using WordPress from Community and Family Learning
Join us for a practical hands-on session about websites. Learn how to design, build and set up a basic Wordpress.com website. No coding experience is required but you should be comfortable using computers and the web.
Location: Bulwell Riverside
Time: 12.00 - 14.30
Date: 9 November 2021
Every Tuesday for 4 weeks
Food and Drinks Manufacturing: Planning for 2022 event - Tuesday 30 November
With 2022 fast approaching, Food and Drink Manufacturing businesses need to continue to adapt to the ever changing environment in which they operate... but they don’t need to face these challenges alone!
At this D2N2 Growth Hub Planning for 2022 event, Food and Drink Manufacturing will hear from local business support partners who can provide expert advice and guidance to help navigate the year ahead. These partners include:
- The Department of International Trade
- The Food and Drinks Forum
- The Food Innovation Centre
- The Accelerating Reduction in Carbon (ARC) programme
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Andy is an accredited business adviser and a marketing and technology expert. He firmly believes that a well thought out sales and marketing strategy, combined with the right digital technology, delivers significant top and bottom-line results. Andy has formed and run technology and consultancy businesses and has helped hundreds of companies worldwide to increase revenue and boost profit. His real skill is joining up sales, marketing & operations from a combined viewpoint of the right technology, with the right processes, automating repetitive tasks where possible, all to meet the company goals and overall strategy. Andy is a Fellow of the Institute of Data & Marketing.
You can meet with Andy at our Marketing webinars this month, or book a one-to-one with the Smorgasbord team for bespoke advice.
Graduating in 2006, Sheridan studied BSc (Hons) Business and Technology at Sheffield Hallam University which included a placement year at Boots. He spent the next ten months travelling solo around the world visiting Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and USA before returning to his studies.
In 2010 he gained an MSc in Environmental Management, including modules on CSR and Social Entrepreneurship before becoming a British Council Climate Advocate and developing a local student food growing project, Food 4 Thought.
Sheridan's international involvement continued, being selected to participate in the UK/China Exchange of Future Leaders programme which saw him spend ten days in China, returning to Nottingham to host environmental entrepreneurs on visits to Biocity, Green Street, NTU, Creative Homes (UoN), the Science Park and Holme Pierrepont.
In 2012, he was awarded the Nottingham Roosevelt Scholarship and spent three months travelling around the USA researching the Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, even living with Haven Roosevelt, the grandson of President F.D. Roosevelt.
Meet Sheridan in the D2N2 Business Surgeries or at the Food & Drink Manufacturing event.
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If you're looking for information, whether on business support in the current situation, an IP query or how to research a new business idea, email us your enquiry to bipc@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
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