The Millin Charity: Local Women, Local Enterprise
The Millin Charity is a specialist provider of women-only enterprise support services for women who are thinking about starting a business and women-led businesses who need support to be better prepared to build a successful and sustainable business.
The Millin Charity will be delivering our Local Women Local Enterprise offer from our Gateshead Hub based at the Greenesfield Business Centre. As part of this project we aim to offer women the opportunity to:
- become enterprise ready through a number of programmes they can take part in
- support existing enterprises
- access support to apply for grants to enable business growth (open to a minimum of five enterprises)
Local Women Local Enterprise will offer the following for women to take part in:
- one-to-one business support including business structures, milestone and goal setting, financial planning, product costing, legalities, business registration, markets, marketing, productivity
- bespoke and accredited enterprise training courses (level 1 and 2) accredited through NOCN
- a range of specialist workshops and expert one-to-one sessions that cover a range of areas including exploring enterprise, using social media, website development, basic bookkeeping, managing budgets, insurance and risk management, using online tools to develop your business and social media
- trading at markets and developing online trading opportunities; we will support women to take their products and services to market and support them to develop their online profiles
- mentoring opportunities through 'Your Enterprise' course, linking women to female entrepreneurs who will support them
- networking and inspiring opportunities for women to come together
If you live in Gateshead and would like to take part, please get in touch and we will carry out an assessment and eligibility and will support you to join the programme.
Contact details
Kirsty McDine and Shewley Haque
0191 499 8402
admin@themillincharity.co.uk
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