Business Network Links
The following are details and links of other business networks available in Leicestershire you may find useful:
Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce
Support site for Leicestershire businesses.
www.chamberofcommerce.co.uk
Business Link
Independent information and support for small and medium sized businesses (up to 250 employees).
www.blleics.co.uk
Job Centre Plus
Jobcentre Plus is a free service, specifically designed to make your recruitment process run smoothly, whatever the scale.
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
Learning and Skills Council (LSC)
The LSC East Midlands works regionally and locally to help businesses get the training they need to succeed.
www.lsc.gov.uk/regions/eastmidlands
Leicester Asian Business Association (LABA)
LABA strives to facilitate improvements in the business competitiveness of its members through being locally sensitive and both nationally and internationally aware.
www.laba.org.uk
Leicester African Caribbean Business Association (LACBA)
LACBA offer a range of professional service advice to pre-start, startup through to established businesses.
www.lacba.org.uk
Leading Advanced Technology and Innovation (LATI)
Networking and business support for technology and scientific companies.
www.lati.co.uk
EMIN
EMIN is a not-for-profit organisation run by a management team on behalf of the Universities of Derby, De Montfort, Leicester, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham Trent. In addition, EMIN has a membership of business incubators across the region providing a complete package of valuable business and technical assistance to start-up companies in the East Midlands with the aim to increase the volume, value and survival rates of new start businesses primarily within the East Midlands.
www.emincubation.co.uk
Creative Leicestershire
Supporting creative freelancers and businesses in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland.
www.creativeleicestershire.org.uk
Leicester Partnership
Leicester's ‘local strategic partnership' brings together the different parts of the public sector as well as the private, business, community and voluntary sectors so that different initiatives and services support each other and work together.
http://www.oneleicester.com/partnership/
Leicestershire Business Voice
A forum for the private sector business community to address the economic challenges facing Leicester and Leicestershire.
www.leicestershirebusinessvoice.com
Network Gold
A forum for businesses within the district of North West Leicestershire to get together to share ideas and discuss issues that affect the business community, to network and do business together.
www.networkgold.org
Leicestershire Somali Business Association Ltd
12 Brunswick Street, LEICESTER, LE1 2LP
ProCon
ProCon is an organisation open to all those involved in the property and construction industries in the Leicestershire area. It provides information and debate on current and topical issues that affect property and construction generally and locally and holds 4 members' events a year together with the highly successful annual ProCon Awards.
www.procon-leicestershire.co.uk
LeicesterShire Networks
LeicesterShire Networks list and bring together many small and large business networking groups from all over the county through a shared website.
www.leicsnet.net
Maximum Impact - The corporate citizenship scheme for Leicestershire
As Leicester continues its transformation through one of the largest regeneration programmes in the country, a number of parallel activities are taking place to ensure that the city and county capitalise on these physical changes and deliver a positive and lasting shift in the image of the destination. Aimed at those already with a vested interest in the area, Maximum Impact is a corporate citizenship scheme in which Leicester Shire Promotions calls on leading companies and institutions to make a significant commitment and actively back work being carried out in driving the image of the city and county forward.
www.l-p-l.com/maximumimpact
Big It Up - Become an ambassador for Leicestershire
The Big It Up campaign is aimed at encouraging high profile local people to take pride in the destination and act as ambassadors for Leicester and Leicestershire. The initiative provides resources and support for representatives from local organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors to help promote Leicester and Leicestershire as an ideal location in which to live, to invest and to visit.
www.l-p-l.com/bigitup