BizFizz Coaches at their June Quarterly meeting in Hastings

The sky's the limit
A man came to see the BizFizz Coach in Horden for help with a funding application to start a painting and decorating business. In the course of the conversation it emerged that he did not really want to be a painter and decorator but to make some money to get his hang-gliding instructor's license. Hang-gliding was his passion. The Coach is supporting him to develop a business around being a hang-gliding instructor rather than a painter decorator.

Valued support
"Being a BizFizz client means I have the valued support of a professional business team to guide me in my new business. The help, advice and services I have received from BizFizz during my coaching by Celia, in areas that I am not that familiar with has been of huge benefit to me and my approach to my business has changed for the better in that I have a better understanding of what needs to happen to make things happen!"
BizFizz client Peter Hargreaves, The Stage Management Company

 

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BizFizz National Co-ordinator (nef): Natalia Fernandez
Bizfizz Programme Manager (nef): Elizabeth Cox
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BizFizz in action

The BizFizz approach was developed jointly by nef and the Civic Trust in 2001 to provide business support to people in communities experiencing economic decline, and challenge the mis-conception that there is a lack of entrepreneurs and enterprising ideas in these communities. nef and the Civic Trust piloted and tested the approach in communities across England and Scotland. nef continue to offer and develop the BizFizz programme.

The approach was piloted in 4 communities for two years from April 2001 – March 2003 with the support of the Small Business Services Phoenix Development Fund in:

  • Easington and Horden, County Durham
  • Jarrow, Tyne and Wear
  • Thetford, Norfolk
  • Tuxford, Nottinghamshire

Following on from the success of the piloting of the BizFizz approach over the previous two years, in June 2004, 8 new BizFizz projects started in the communities of:

  • Alnwick, Northumberland
  • Craghead, County Durham
  • Winsford, Cheshire
  • Toxteth, Liverpool
  • Clowne, Derbyshire
  • Belgrave Heartlands, Leicester
  • West of Norwich (Bowthorpe, Larkman, Marlpit, Earlham)
  • Ocean Estate, East London

In 2005, a new project started in:

  • Weardale, County Durham

The diversity of project areas for this second programme reflects our particular interest in testing the robustness of the model from rural, coastal and market towns, to former mining areas, and the cultural diversity of the UK’s inner cities.

Since 2005 we have added projects in:

  • Burslem, Stoke
  • Port Glasgow, Inverclyde
  • Hastings, Sussex
  • South Normanton, Nottinghamshire
  • Shirebrook, Nottinghamshire
  • Sutton in Ashfield, Notts
  • Hucknall and Kirby, Ashfield, Notts
  • Holmewood and Quadrant, Bradford
  • Horton Grange, Bradford
  • Keighley, Airedale, Bradford
  • Shipley, Airedale, Bradford
  • Warsop, Nottinghamshire
  • Northfield, Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire
  • Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich
  • Mile Cross, Norwich
  • Lakenham, Norwich
  • Wansbeck, Northumberland
  • Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
  • Caldmore, Walsall
  • Allerton, Bradford
  • Rural Communities, Bradford

 

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