Several years ago a group of Barnsley entrepreneurs created their own support forum to ‘bring-out’ what they needed to learn to master building a better business, this forum has been providing real solutions and facilitating learning for and with each other ever since. At 9am on Wednesday 9th November 2011 this dynamic set of individuals open the doors at Willow Lodge corporate Retreat in Penistone for other local entrepreneurs to share in the benefits and success of what they’ve createRead More....

This question reminds me of the powerful and highly emotionally charged response from Michael Sheen in the film ‘Damned United’ he stood up and asserted “Brian Clough” and again even firmer “Brian Clough”. You may have felt that emotion too, but I’m sure if you and I were in the same cinema some of that emotion would have been radiating from me, having sat next to Brian and his wife Barbara on a flight out to Spain when I was about 12 years old. I didn’t have a clue at the time wRead More....

I’m so pleased to announce that I’m working in a small specialist team of business mentors on a programme established in Barnsley to help transform business dreams into reality which is set to expand. Enterprising Barnsley’s Incubation Programme builds on the Genesis initiative which strives to encourage businesses to set up in the borough and develop from there. Genesis began at the Barnsley Business and Innovation Centre (BBIC), at Wilthorpe, over ten years ago. Its main aim wasRead More....