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Business Newsletter. Your latest update for the district.
Welcome to this month's mini-edition of the Blaby district business newsletter, which provides an overview of the latest business related news, initiatives, and support packages. This edition features the latest Blaby district business events, updates, free resources, and training opportunities.

Our standard-length and mini-length newsletter editions will be sent to you on alternate months throughout the year to keep you in the loop. 

📰 Latest Blaby District Business Events and Updates

Blaby District Work and Skills Forum

If you are an SME business within Blaby District and would like to help shape the employment, skills and training/development opportunities across Blaby District whilst also hearing how organisations can offer support and advice on local and national initiatives. Then, the Blaby District Work and Skills Forum is your chance to get involved.

The next meeting is taking place on Wednesday 19th April 2023 from 2pm to 3.30pm at the Hilton Hotel Leicester LE19 1WQ
 
For further information or to confirm you would like to attend the next forum email us at: enterprisingblaby@blaby.gov.uk

Annual Green Business Breakfast 

Wednesday 22 March from 8am to 10am at the Leicester Marriott Hotel 

The theme of the meeting is centred around sustainability and green businesses. The focus is how SME businesses can learn and navigate their way to becoming more sustainable. With a key focus on the initial steps businesses can take with going ‘green’, we will also share available funding opportunities.

To reserve your place click the button below.

Book onto the Business Breakfast

Visit Blaby District Tourism Partnership

Are you a business in the hospitality sector?
If so, you may want to join our Tourism Partnership!

 

The council is working towards a tourism growth plan, an ambitious programme to grow the number of visitors and support businesses in the Blaby district. The local tourism sector includes spaces and businesses where people enjoy spending time and sharing experiences – parks, open spaces, walks, local shopping, pubs, restaurants and cafes, garden centres, history and heritage sites, attractions and activities.

We have a well-established tourism partnership with a group of businesses that can influence plans and receive free-of-charge promotions, who are kept updated with training and support opportunities. These businesses include large organisations like Fosse Park, Everards, Hilton and Marriott Hotels, tourism destinations like Palmers, Stanton Lakes, Stoney Cove and Meridian Leisure Park, and smaller businesses like Jennos and Mill Hill Cask and Coffee. 

There is no cost and no expectation in terms of time either. We hold (optional) quarterly meetings, send email updates and include our partners in Visit Blaby District promotion and marketing campaigns. 

To learn more about Visit Blaby District, take a look at www.visitblaby.org.uk and @visitblaby on social media.

If you would like to get involved, please email leisure@blaby.gov.uk 

📚 Free resources and training

Business Gateway Growth Hub Events

There’s a packed programme of fully-funded events for Leicestershire business owners this March from the Business Gateway. The first half includes new sessions on marketing AI, a social media boot-camp, WordPress and more.

For more information, please visit www.bizgateway.org.uk/events
or use the links below to find out more about each event:

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10 Performance https://bit.ly/3EdfB9x
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13 Communications http://bit.ly/3Zb1Qk5
14 Social media http://bit.ly/3IMYZXI
16 Resilience http://bit.ly/3Yfp5bg
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22 Video ads http://bit.ly/3EOa8WZ
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28 CRM http://bit.ly/3IIGZh7
30 SEO http://bit.ly/3xZW3Sz

Free one-day conference for SMEs in Leicestershire focusing on the workforce, energy, finance, personal resilience and more.

Date: 18th April 2023
Start & End Time: 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Location: Morningside Arena, 12 Memory Lane, Leicester LE1 3UL 

We’ve all heard about the cost of living crisis but there’s also a cost of doing business crisis! High and unpredictable energy prices, recruitment challenges, late payers and the rising cost of debts, to name a few. This one-day conference is aimed at small to medium-sized businesses in Leicester and Leicestershire looking for tools, tips and information to keep themselves and their businesses on track, not just for survival, but also to thrive and grow in 2023/4.

LLEP Board Directors, Glynis Wright MBE and Sonia Baigent will host the day.

Find out more here: How to survive and thrive in business 2023 - Business Gateway Growth Hub (bizgateway.org.uk)

Your Business Hub

Our Business Hub is on hand to offer dedicated help and support. Our friendly team is only a call or email away: if we don’t know the answer we promise to find out.There are so many resources available, many included in this newsletter, and we want to encourage you to access them. 

You can get in touch by completing the form on our support and advice page by clicking the button below.

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