Workshop Format and Dates

Each workshop is a combination of presentations and discussion so there is plenty of opportunity to ask questions specific to your business or circumstance, either in an open forum or 1 to 1.  The experienced and expert facilitators, will update you on the current banking, investment and grant finance issues. At Workshop 2 events, you will refine your business proposition and have the opportunity to practice your pitch to an investor, bank manager or grant specialist.

Workshop 1 is a half day and Workshop 2 is a full day. In order to cover the in-depth content delivered in Workshop 2 and ensure that all attendees gain the maximum benefit, we expect that all will have attended the workshop 1 as a pre-requisite.

Workshops are scheduled at regular intervals all over the region, and you are welcome to attend any of these to meet with your timescales.

Workshop 1

• Tuesday 19 January 2010 Harlow Enterprise Centre, Essex
• Thursday 28 January 2010 IP City Centre, Ipswich
• Tuesday 9 February 2010 Hethel Engineering Centre, Norfolk
• Tuesday 2 March 2010 St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge
• Thursday 11 March 2010 Business & Technology Centre, Stevenage (BTC Stevenage)
• Tuesday 27 April 2010 BasePoint, Luton, Bedfordshire
• Thursday 13 May 2010 IP City Centre, Ipswich, Suffolk
• Tuesday 20 May 2010 Pontlands Park, Chelmsford, Essex
• Tuesday 1 June 2010 Business & Technology Centre, Stevenage (BTC Stevenage) 
• Tuesday 15 June 2010 St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge
• Thursday 24 June 2010 The Forum, Norwich

Workshop 2

• Equity Finance - Tuesday 2 February, Best Western, Bishop Stortford
• Grant Funding - Thursday 11 February, Best Western, Bury St Edmunds
• Operational Finance - Tuesday 23 February, Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire
• Operational Finance - Tuesday 23 March, St John's Innovation Centre, Cambridge
• Equity Finance - Wednesday 5 May, Hethel Engineering Centre, Norfolk
• Operational Finance - Tuesday 18 May, Ramada Hotel, Hatfield
• Equity Finance - Tuesday 8 June, Business and Technology Centre, Stevenage
• Grant Finance -  Thursday 17 June, Best Western Marks Tey Hotel, Colchester
• Operational Finance - Wednesday 30 June, Hethel Engineering Centre, Norfolk

"The first workshop helped by giving an overview of the sources of finance for expanding our production capability.  This introduction led to the second workshop focusing on grants.

" I was not only pleasantly surprised at the quality and range of content, but the speakers obviously had valuable information and experience. I say this from personal knowledge, having been a banker, financier and now in a successful manufacturing business.  I have used this information to help formulate our expansion and we will also be applying for finance through EEDA's GBI scheme." 
Alan Gilbert, Animax and Clinimax Ltd