Posts Tagged ‘Yorkshire Forward’

The nti Works scheme has been praised by the Yorkshire Post as it featured last week on Thursday 25th March, as an article in the jobs section of the newspaper. If you missed it, keep reading below:

Graduates at Leeds Metropolitan University and its Northern Technology Institute (NTI) are receiving a helping hand as a scheme designed to help them into work has received extra funding.

Regional Development Agency Yorkshire Forward has backed the scheme that helps digital and creative graduates access training and gain business skills needed to set up their own businesses. By the time the project finished in June, the number of Yorkshire and Humber graduates involved in the training will have reached 60. The NTI Works programme, which provides advice, training, guidance and mentoring to recent graduates, has proved popular since its launch in 2009.

Linda Broughton, Head of the Northern Technology Institute, said “Being part of the co-working community here at Old Broadcasting House offers a unique opportunity for the graduates to learn from other s who have been through the same experience.”

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Open Source for Business (OS4B) is the exciting joint venture from nti Leeds and Yorkshire Forward, designed to help regional businesses make the most of open source technology to benefit from cost effective, and flexible open source IT solutions. (more…)

Yorkshire Forward have announced the call for entries to the Innovator/10 awards, promising to be the most prestigious yet with finalists being joined by over 200 of Yorkshire and Humber’s leading businesses. So what does it take to be an innovator? Watch this video to find out! (more…)

Award-winning web design company, Creode, recently celebrated their first birthday. Created by James Hannaford and Luke Harrison, both 22, this young innovative company has proved how even new graduates can buck the trend in the current economic climate. (more…)

An £15m Yorkshire Forward scheme that encourages large companies in Yorkshire and Humber to carry out new research and development projects by providing funding support now open for new applications.

A breakfast briefing session for business support intermediaries and companies interested in applying will take place on 1st July at Hotel St Pierre in Wakefield at 8am. The session will outline the objectives of the IRD scheme and the application criteria. (more…)

On 30th June at 8.30am at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds, OS4B (Open Source for Business), a joint project between nti Leeds and Yorkshire Forward, hosts the second in a series of unique breakfast meetings for employers.

This is definitely a date to put in your diary, as we’ll be hearing from Paul Rhodes, a Yorkshire businessman who turned the Greencore business around from big losses to bigger profits, even in the tough financial climate.

Then after breakfast, meet another Yorkshire entrepreneur, Neil Warnock of Luminary, who will explain how Business Intelligence can transform business success.

Join us for a filling breakfast with fantastic speakers and find out how you can make your business more successful. Contact us on 0845 122 1555 or info@ntileeds.co.uk for more information on this event and the OS4B project.

New business venture Open Source for Business better known as OS4B, has once again been projected into the Yorkshire region with a spread in the Yorkshire Post entitled ˜Technology Opening the Way for Business Opportunities’. (more…)

The Train to Gain Enhancement Fund is a £50m resource aimed at engaging employers in Yorkshire and Humber to invest in skills development and therefore increase the skills base in the region. It is funded by the Learning and Skills Council from Yorkshire and Humber™s European Social Fund, and by Yorkshire Forward. The fund aims to help ensure that regional businesses and their employees are skilled, knowledgeable and in a position to respond effectively to challenges and changes in economic and market needs through supporting skills and workforce development. (more…)

Business Link have teamed up with Yorkshire Forward to offer Innovation Vouchers to provide small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the region with financial support to engage with Yorkshire™s universities and other academic institutions, such as nti Leeds (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), to help their business grow and develop. (more…)

Yorkshire Forward has brought together key influencers from the region, to contribute and shape the regional response to the Digital Britain Report, launched by the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, (DBERR) at The Met Hotel, Leeds.

Delegates included Numiko, Screen Yorkshire, Games Republic, ITV, Jeep Production and Elmwood who were given the opportunity to discuss the findings of the recently published interim Digital Britain Report. The report seeks to bring both stimulus and focus to the Digital and New Media sector, through the development of a National Strategy in the final report.  (more…)

Reduce costs. Increase your Options. Take control.

Build your own business success in the face of global adversity.

Join us in Leeds at the home of OS4B at 8:30am on 31st March for a business breakfast where we discuss how to “Innovate in a Downturn” and gain competitive advantage through Open Source technologies which offer “Alternative IT Solutions for your business needs”.

This unique ˜Sandwich Breakfast’ is free and will feature fantastic speakers from Harvey Nash, Global IT Professional Services and Luminary, IT Consultants, dispelling the myths and old wives’ tales and helping you to understand what Open Source really means. Book now to register for this event and find out how Open Source can save you money. (more…)

Business Link have teamed up with Yorkshire Forward to offer Innovation Vouchers to provide small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) in the region with financial support to engage with Yorkshire’s universities and other academic institutions, such as nti Leeds (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), to help their business grow and develop. (more…)

Geoff Gifford and I attended the Innovator ‘09 awards at Leeds Town Hall on Thursday 5th March 2009. We were pretty excited/nervous/pleased to be shortlisted in the Innovation Catalyst award for our coworking space here at Old Broadcasting House. Surprisingly the digital sector wasn’t well represented as from what we can gather it was just NTI Leeds that made the shortlist in any of the categories. This doesn’t represent the true picture of what’s happening in our region in the digital area. Maybe people are not applying as they are just too busy innovating and working on getting business to fill out the application. (more…)

As part of a series of master classes run by the Institute for Enterprise, Todd Hannula’s was welcomed to Old Broadcasting House with the question ˜Can Business Be Both Private and Public?™ The presentation focussed on how to succeed. Todd outlined his experience with the Camberwell Project formed in 2006 by Todd and 3 others. (more…)

Northern Technology Institute (NTI) has been recently nominated in the UK Trade and Investment™s Innovator 09 Awards run by Yorkshire Forward.

NTI has been shortlisted to the final 3 in the Innovation Catalyst category in recognition of the region™s first coworking space, home to digital entrepreneurs, fledging businesses and those thinking of starting business. It is listed as one of 18 organisations based in the Yorkshire and Humberside region to be short-listed as a finalist at the awards, in the bid to win £3,000. (more…)

Launched across the nation, 4ip planted itself in Sheffield Digital Campus, opening doors to the Yorkshire and Humberside Region. Sarah Joynson (CEO, Screen Yorkshire), introduced the event saying œThis is a fantastic opportunity to put Yorkshire™s talent on the global map.

The strong partnership between Yorkshire Forward, Channel 4 and Screen Yorkshire that has been developing over the last couple of years, gave evidence of the campaign™s relevance to new concepts that would potentially innovate today™s culture for tomorrow. (more…)