• Room to grow: rent your spare room and share your life skills

  By Staffordshire County Council at 10:30 on 19/03/13

  

  Have you got a room to spare and do you think you can offer crucial support to a young person between 16 and 18? If so you could become a Staffordshire Supported Lodgings host. Staffordshire County Council's Supported Lodgings Scheme helps vulnerable local teenagers become independent adults by finding them 'hosts' who can teach them the skills they need. In return hosts receive a full package of support. This includes a placement...

• Students can find out more about backing for jobs and growth in Staffordshire

  By Staffordshire County Council at 11:55 on 06/03/13

  

  College students can find out more about what the county council is doing to help them secure a job at events next week. A team will be at Newcastle, Stafford and Cannock colleges to let 16 to 19 year-olds know how the county council is supporting jobs and growth – including increasing apprenticeships, helping to build better links between educational establishments and business and supporting start-up companies at its...

• Free event offers local businesses an opportunity to unlock the potential of export

  By Staffordshire County Council at 13:00 on 25/02/13

  

  Small and medium-sized businesses across Staffordshire can find out how developing their export market could help them expand and boost jobs and growth locally.   The free 'New Markets, New Horizons' breakfast event will help businesses with no, or limited, previous experience in exporting their products or services to get an insight into overcoming barriers. It will take place at Keele Hall near Newcastle-under-Lyme on...

• Having difficulty funding your small business?

  By Staffordshire County Council at 14:52 on 25/01/13

  

  A business loan from Staffordshire County Council could help. Since 2009 our 'Staffordshire Business Loans Fund' has supported over 75 companies from business start-ups to established firms who need funding to expand. It's helped to create over 200 new jobs and has safeguarded over 350 more. Small businesses are vital to Staffordshire's economy and job pool. But we know many find it difficult to get finance from the banks, despite...

• Staffordshire loan fund helps successful company continue to grow

  By Staffordshire County Council at 11:57 on 11/12/12

  

  Rapid Mobility, a company which started out in Leek specialising in mobility products, fashion and Independent Living Aids has gone from strength to strength all thanks to help from the Staffordshire Business Loan Fund. Following a loan from the fund they now have stores in Uttoxeter and Stoke. The fund was specifically created to help Staffordshire based businesses which are unable to obtain finance from banks. Rapid Mobility needed...

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