New Enterprise Allowance is a new Department for Work and Pensions initiative designed to support people that are unemployed and are thinking of starting up their own business or becoming self-employed. The programme provides support from business advisors and mentors in developing their business plan prior to commencing trading.
New Enterprise Allowance mentoring can offer a truly rewarding opportunity to work with a jobseeker interested in setting up a new business, helping them build a business plan, start trading and providing them with on-going support.
If you would be interested in finding out more about how you could support this scheme, below are those NEA providers across the UK that have expressed an interest in finding new mentors.
The GO Group
Kelly Mason
07974 959661
WALES Cardiff
A4e
Simon Muncey
07435 970868
NORTH ENGLAND Cumbria
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce
Lesley Robinson
0845 226 00 40 North East
Inbiz
Richie Hamden
020 7264 0472 County Durham and Tees Valley
North East Enterprise Agencies Limited (NEEAL)
Louise Liddle
01207 585804 Gateshead
Gateshead Council
Helen Rochester
0191 433 2925 West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire Enterprise Agency
Melissa Healy
01924 786500 Doncaster
Doncaster Chamber
Business Support
Pam Poyner - 01302 640127
Iain McBride - 01302 640126
MIDLANDS Derbyshire
Business in the Community
Nicola Burton
0115 9247419 East Midlands
Evolve Mentoring Evolve Mentoring
0844 209 1577 Midlands
Black Country Chamber of Commerce
Gemma Hall
07810 377833 Mercia District, Staffordshire and Shropshire
Business Enterprise Support Ltd Marla Nelson
01283 537 151
SOUTH ENGLAND London North
North London Business
John Kester
020 8885 9211 London East
Avanta
Richie Hamden
020 7264 0472 Essex, East Anglia and South London
Ixion Holdings
The Mentor Hive
Natasha Limbrick and Leah Martin
01245 505630 Kent
Avanta
Claire Rock
07748 178749 East and West Sussex, Brighton and Hove, Surrey
Let’s Do Business Group
Kaye Crittell
0844 9432999 Hampshire
Mentor-net
Rachel Cheetham
0845 45 86 454 Hampshire
Enterprise First
Katy Mosey
01252 319272 Gloucestershire and West of England
Gloucestershire Enterprise Ltd
Michaela Cozens
01452 733546 Devon
BIP
BIP team
01837 659059