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How You Can Mix Business With Parenting

November 5th, 2008 | Author: Jack

nebusiness.co.uk:

Parents and carers are being targeted in a £1m effort to persuade them to start their own businesses.

The campaign aims to highlight the benefits of running a business to young mums or those who have caring responsibilities and need to manage their working life around their other commitments.

The investment, from One North East and the European Regional Development Fund, will pay for a series of Flexible Families workshops and one-to-one mentoring projects in accessible places such as Sure Start and community centres, nurseries and toddler groups.

Help will be provided to develop people’s business ideas, find sources of support and link them up with other people in a similar situation.

Crucially, it aims to make people look at how enterprise can work for them, leading to a decent income while allowing them to continue their caring duties.

One hopes the programme will give it inroads to some of the people who are least likely to become entrepreneurs and help it achieve the Regional Economic Strategy’s target of creating 22,000 new businesses by 2016. More.