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John Buddle in PRIME condition for Prince

The Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise (PRIME) held its second workshop at The John Buddle Work Village, Buddle Road, Newcastle recently.

PRIME is the only national organisation dedicated to providing everyone over 50, who is workless or under threat of redundancy, with the support to achieve financial, social and personal fulfilment through sustainable self-employment, business or social enterprise.

The course takes mature entrepreneurs in straightforward steps through the challenging process of planning to start your own business. It is for people, who want to start their own businesses, but need guidance on how to put together a plan.

The feedback from the sessions so far has been excellent, Alison Parker one of the attendees had this to say “The venue is absolutely ideal with first class support from Alex Johnston and her team at John Buddle. Mel Middleton who ran the session was brilliant and handled some challenging situations without batting an eye.”

“Our post-lunch presentation from Mike (McMeekin of Arrow Sales) hit just the right note - entertaining and thought-provoking. He’s a real West End boy made good and I’d like to thank him for sharing his time and honest insights. I especially liked his thoughts on establishing a USP, really sound, sensible stuff - none of the trite BS you often hear on the subject”

Other comments included “The presentation was excellent and gave quite a lot of insight into setting up your own business”, to “Brilliant, could have asked 100 more questions.”

Things are really moving along with ‘Preparing to run your own business’ with sessions in St Helen’s, Leeds and Manchester as well as Newcastle

Businesses are varied: from coaching, to cafes, from bicycle repair to ecological home renovations, from healing, health and beauty to herb gardens and leather instrument cases to HR consultancy.

They are all enthusiastic and keen to learn with and Kate one of the attendees said this “If you would like a rollercoaster ride that excites, challenges, fine tunes and encourages you to start your own business from the strongest starting block possible then this is the course for you! It will demand commitment, strategic thinking, honesty, awareness of self and time but it is worth it. And meet other great people in a similar situation enabling mutual support and fun. What have you got to lose? Go for it!”

If you want to get involved in Prime as a mentor or would be interested in participating in this course, please email info@prime.org.uk with your full name and postcode to book your place or call 0845 862 2023.

If you are looking for first class premises contact Alex Johnson at John Buddle Work Village on 0191-2267300 or email mail@johnbuddleworkvillage.org or take a look at http://www.johnbuddleworkvillage.org/

If you want further information on improving your sales skills contact Michael McMeekin of Arrow Sales on 0191-2267366 or email michael@arrowsales.co.uk.

If you are new to business or new to sales Arrow are running an ‘Introduction to B2B Sales’ visit http://www.arrowsales.co.uk/sales-training for further details

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Michael McMeekin .