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This Summer is packed with events and support to help your business grow, read on!
✈️ Exciting news for East Midlands exporters!
Date & Time: Friday, 27 June 2025 from 9am to 10am (Online Event)
The Chamber has secured funding from EMCCA to launch our brand-new Export Accelerator project designed to help businesses expand their global reach 🌍
Through this fully funded project, eligible businesses can access:
✅ Specialist international business advice
✅ Access to grants
✅ Subsidised training
Join Diane Beresford, Deputy Chief Executive, and Lucy Granger, Head of International Trade at one of our free online launch events to learn how the project can support your global growth plans.
They’ll also be gathering your input on shaping a new International Trade Network.
Open to eligible businesses across Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham city and Nottinghamshire. See website for more details.
Date & Time: 30th June & 1st July 2025 at 09:30 – 3:30 pm
Location: Online Event
This programme is available to individuals based in Nottingham City, Nottinghamshire, Lincoln City, Lincolnshire and Leicester City. *
This two-day programme of workshops led by one of our experienced business trainers will teach you the nuts and bolts of starting and running a successful business.
Over the course of the programme, we will cover:
- Knowledge, skills, and characteristics needed by successful business owners
- Sole trader, limited company, partnership – which is best for you?
- Your legal responsibilities as a business owner
- Marketing your business
- Understanding tax, National Insurance and VAT
- Record keeping and business banking
- Start up and running costs
- Planning your personal survival budget
- How to price your product or service
- Importance of cash flow forecasting for your business
*Eligibility checks will be made
 If you are considering hiring an intern, it’s important to find out whether they are entitled to be paid the National Minimum Wage (NMW).
Whether an intern should be paid NMW depends on their worker status. If they are classified as a worker for NMW purposes, they are entitled to at least the NMW for the hours they have worked during their internship.
You can find information on GOV.UK to help you work out whether an intern would be classified as a worker for NMW purposes.
Correcting NMW underpayments
If you think you’ve made a mistake you need to put things right.
Here’s how you can do it:
- change the working practices going forward.
- calculate arrears:determine the arrears due to workers using current NMW rates.
- pay arrears: ensure the arrears are paid back to the workers. For any affected ex workers, you must make all reasonable attempts to contact them.
If you have identified and paid arrears for underpayment of minimum wage, then there is an option to inform HMRC. You can do this by requesting a form by emailing voluntarydeclaration.[email protected].
Further Guidance and Resources
- General guidance on calculating the minimum wage
- HMRC also offers a wide range of recorded webinars on topics such as apprentices, common NMW issues, and salary sacrifice
Nottingham City Council’s: Inclusive Recruitment Hub Breakfast Event
Date & Time: Tuesday, 22nd July 2025 8.30am - 10am
Location: Park Plaza Nottingham
This event is a valuable opportunity for you to have your say in shaping the future of inclusive recruitment in Nottingham/Nottinghamshire. Together, we will explore practical ways to improve access to talent, break down barriers to employment, and support businesses in building diverse, high-performing teams with robust policies that support Businesses and Employees.
During the session, you’ll have the chance to:
- Contribute your insights and needs as an employer
- Learn what the Inclusive Recruitment Hub intends to achieve
- Help co-design a resource hub that works for businesses and organisations like yours
We value you and so your voice is vital in creating solutions that benefit both employers and jobseekers in Nottingham/ Nottinghamshire.
Please RSVP by accessing tickets on Eventbrite:
Marketing that means Business: Build your Marketing Action Plan
Date & Time: Tuesday, 1 July 2025 at 9:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Online
Overwhelmed by marketing? You’re not alone.
In this fast-paced, practical 3-hour online workshop, we’ll cut through the noise and help you build a simple, powerful marketing plan that actually works.
What’s covered:
- How to define your ideal customer and stand out from the competition
- Which marketing channels work best for your business
- How to create content that connects and converts
- The secrets to consistent, stress-free marketing
- A marketing action plan
Who should attend?
Designed specifically for small business owners and those responsible for marketing, this interactive session will guide you through creating a focused simple marketing strategy—without the jargon, fluff, or overwhelm. You’ll leave with clarity, confidence, and a step-by-step plan you can start using immediately.
Eligibility:
This workshop is open to established enterprises located in Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
 ANGEL INVESTING, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Are you an entrepreneur looking for investment to grow your business? Or, are you exploring how to become an angel investor to support the next generation of innovators?
Join the British Business Bank and UKBAA this Autumn for a complimentary three part webinar series focused on angel investing in the Midlands.
Webinar 1: Angel Investing: what you need to know
Date & Time: Tuesday 9th September 2025 at 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Online Event)
For individuals interested in becoming angel investors, what's involved, how it works and where to begin.
Hosted by: Lewis Stringer, Senior Manager, UK Network – East & South-East Midlands, BBB
Guest Speaker: Roderick Beer, Managing Director, UK Business Angels Association
Regional Spotlight: Luke Pulford, Head of Minerva, Minerva Business Angels
Panel: Lewis Stringer, Roderick Beer, Luke Pulford and Sarah Windrum, Head of Cluster Development, HORIBA MIRA
Webinar 2. Seeking Investment: A guide for SMEs
Date & Time: Tuesday 23rd September 2025 at 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Online Event)
For SMEs exploring angel investment as a funding route, how to prepare and where to find support.
Hosted by: Tracy Sherratt, Senior Manager, UK Network – West Midlands, BBB
Guest Speaker: Roderick Beer, Managing Director, UK Business Angels Association
Regional Spotlight: Jof Walters, Chief Executive Officer, Greater Things
Panel: Tracy Sherratt, Roderick Beer, Jof Walters and Sarah King, Co-founder and CEO, Obu
Webinar 3. Diversity and inclusion in Angel investing
Date & Time: Tuesday 14th October 2025 at 12:00pm - 13:00pm (Online event)
Exploring challenges faced by underrepresented founders and investors, and how the ecosystem can become more inclusive.
Hosted by: Vicky Mears, Director, UK Network – Midlands & North, BBB
Guest Speaker: Roderick Beer, Managing Director, UK Business Angels Association
Regional Spotlight: Jordan Dargue, Co-founder, Lifted Ventures
Panel: Vicky Mears, Roderick Beer, Jordan Dargue and Laura Mallaburn, Head of Business Support, Lincolnshire Business Angels
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