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Facet Solutions (www.facet-solutions.co.uk) is a successful business coaching and training consultancy with a very interesting story. Most unusually owner David Steel has worked with Enterprise Agency NBSL both as one of their start up clients and more recently as a…
When talented photographer Sarah Chappell, 29, went on maternity leave as she was expecting her first baby, she decided the time was right for a change in lifestyle.  “I was travelling from Berwick to Newcastle, where I had been working…
So what is Twitter? Essentially it is a mini-blog or an online diary that provides an ability to have instant conversations with people you follow and who follow you. All of this has to be done in 140 characters or…
If you employ between 2 – 249 people, run a private sector company or social enterprise, undertake the majority of your business in the Business to Business arena and can show that you have aspirations for growth over the next…
Encouraging continual learning and development by staff is a big part of qualification provider NCFE’s culture and business ethos.  Proving that training never stops regardless of your position in the business,  Alasdair Downes, Director of Business Development at NCFE, has…
When Linda Hugill of Mungai Mirrors expanded the company’s range of specialist acrylic safety mirrors, just months after moving into new factory premises in Chester le Street Co Durham, she knew she needed support to grow the business and develop…
If you are interested in providing business mentoring and want to develop the skills you need to help you to take up the role then we may just have the answer. Working in partnership with CDC, NBSL are pleased to…
When Craig Smith started his business ‘The Printed Bag Shop’ (www.theprintedbagshop.co.uk) in 2007 trading from his front room with the aid of a single computer, little did he think that a few years down the line he would be employing…
Funding support has assisted Wades financial planners to review their business strategy and to keep up to date with the challenges and demands which the current financial climate is imposing on their sector. Background Wades who are one of the…
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