Showing posts with label government support package. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government support package. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2009

Get paid to start your own business!

We think some of the ‘new’ package of intensive support to help those who’ve been unemployed for 6 months or more announced today is not necessarily new at all.

We think the 'new' bit is the payment of £2500 to employers who train someone who's been unemployed for 6 months or more. But the cash support to help unemployed people to start-up their own business has in fact been in place for a while now and is run through jobcentre plus.

Their service provides a range of training and mentoring to help people develop their business idea into a business plan and to undertake a testing stage, of up to 6 months, where they can run their business whilst still getting their Jobcentre Plus allowance payments as well as continuing to receive ongoing mentoring support.

For those interested, more info is at:
http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/Customers/Self_Employment/Dev_011591.xml.html