Gloucestershire Enterprise Limited
What we do
Gloucestershire Enterprise Business Services (GEBS) is a small friendly team of business support professionals based in the heart of Gloucestershire. We provide a wide range of services to help both fledgling companies and existing small businesses achieve their full potential. Our services range from general business advice to business skills training and more specialist programmes of support such as the countywide mentors programme and rural enterprise initiatives.
If you are already on the road to starting your own business or have been running your company for a number of years, you may occasionally need external expertise to help guide and improve your business performance. Many businesses experience barriers and challenges and we are expert in identifying issues and providing cost effective solutions, thereby helping to grow and sustain a healthy local economy.
GEBS is a not for profit company, effectively being a social enterprise driven by our objective, to work for the development of a more prosperous Gloucestershire, rather than the profit motive.
The business is modelled on the lines of an Enterprise Agency. We are members of the National Federation of Enterprise Agencies that has 128 members around the country. As a result we have access to a vast array of contacts and information to draw on to help support our clients.
Latest News
Daycare Trust Report Highlights Best Practice With BBIC
BBIC have been highlighted in the recent Daycare Trust report, “Childcare and the recession”, as an innovative solution to local authority driven business support in the childcare sector. The report says local authorities will need to help childcare settings avoid financial difficulties during the recession by providing or facilitating business support. It goes on to add that some local authorities are already doing this. For example, “Gloucestershire County Council has commissioned two not-for-profit social partnership organisations to provide business support for childcare settings in the County under the banner of ‘Better Business in Childcare (BBIC). Six dedicated staff run a website specifically aimed at the 580 PVI childcare settings in the County. They offer tool-kits, fact sheets, training and an advice line, ‘supporting the growth and development of a sustainable local childcare sector’. This is a model which could easily be replicated by other local authorities. “
The BBIC team have many years experience of providing dedicated childcare business advice and coupled with the additional resources available through BBIC this blended approach to business support is of real benefit to the sector.
For further information visit - www.betterbusinessinchildcare.co.uk
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