Watch a quick summary of this week's news from Nicky here:
Workspaces
I often get asked about work spaces in the Hampshire area… Here are some shared work spaces that I’ve recently come across…
The Imagination Refinery - Gosport
Solent Partners have a useful page about workspaces in the Solent area.
Hampshire County Council Bootcamps
Hampshire County Council provides Skills Bootcamps to employers of all sizes and across a variety of sectors within the Hampshire area. Subject areas include green skills; digital; project management; sales; education; health and social care; construction; hospitality; early years. Find out more here
Small Business Training Day
27 June 9:30 -4pm at Fareham College, CEMAST, PO13 9FU
Solent Business & Skills Solutions have designed a new FREE training day for small businesses in the region. Thrive Together is a CPD Day designed especially for start-ups and established small businesses. The day will cover hot topics for small business including marketing, sales, AI and keynote. There will also be an exhibition of the latest products and services and networking. Book free tickets here
More protection for small business energy customers
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and Ofgem have jointly announced a package of reforms to help protect small business energy customers, which will be rolled throughout the year.
Small businesses with 10-49 employees will now be able to take energy disputes to the Energy Ombudsman. Until now, only businesses with under 10 employees could do so. New rules will give more protection from rogue energy brokers who are not acting in customers’ best interests.
The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) campaigned for this protection for small firms. Read more here.
