For those under 30 considering starting a business, an Explore Enterprise Workshop in Lincoln by The Prince’s Trust could help.
The event at Lincoln City Football Club on December 10-13 aims to help young people in the city put their business ideas into practice.
Each day looks at different aspects of launching a business.
Day one covers personal goals, skills and money, day two focuses on marketing and selling, day three focuses on HMRC, pricing and managing money while day four will look at business plans, mentoring, practical sessions and next steps.
As well as workshops, there will also be speakers at the event, such as business mentors, a HMRC tax/book keeping speaker and other young entrepreneurs.
The Explore Enterprise event will run between 9.30am and 4pm each day.
The Prince’s Trust aims to provide young people in the UK with useful advice and grants of up to £1,500 to set up a business.
In addition to various levels of funding, new companies will also be provided with business mentors to help guide entrepreneurs for the first two years of the start up, and given access to various beneficial events and workshops.
When one man in Lincoln was made redundant at the decorating company he was an apprentice with, he decided to use his new knowledge by working for himself with the help of The Price’s Trust.
Declan Nattrass (19) turned to the Trust to help set up his own decorating company, Dec’s Decorating, in which he received £900 in a grant.
He now gets requests from residential and business sectors in and around Lincoln, with business lined up.
He said: “My business is going really well. I am getting lots of enquiries and am busy with lots of work which fills my week.
“I mainly work on my own but occasionally for big jobs I recruit the help of some additional workers.
“The Prince’s Trust really helped me get started and showed me what I needed to have in place before I just launched into it. I’ve found the most helpful aspect the mentor who has helped me get my name out there.”
Anyone interested in self employment, that is either unemployed or working less than 16 hours per week can contact The Prince’s Trust on 0800 842 842.
To attend the event or get more information contact John Holliday on [email protected] or call 01522 808518.
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A 38-year-old man from a North Lincolnshire village charged with murder will face an eight-day trial later this year.
Emergency services were called at 4.23am on Saturday, July 2 to reports that a man was seriously injured on South Parade in central Doncaster.
The 28-year-old victim was taken to hospital but was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A post-mortem examination found that he died of injuries to his head, chest and abdomen.
Formal identification of the victim is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police said earlier this week.
Steven Ling, 38, of Park Drain, Westwoodside in North Lincolnshire, has been charged with murder and was remanded in custody to appear at Doncaster Magistrates Court on Monday, July 4.
Ling later appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday, July 5 for a plea and trial preparation hearing.
No pleas were entered during the hearing, but an eight-day trial was set for November 28, 2022. Ling has now been remanded into custody until the next hearing.
The Lincolnite went on a ride-along with a Lincolnshire Police officer from the force’s Roads Policing Unit (RPU), which aims to disrupt criminals’ use of the roads and reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents.
The team will support the county response including local policing, neighbourhood policing and criminal investigation too.
Operations first began in Grantham in January this year and started in Louth earlier this week with a sergeant and nine PCs based in both locations.
The Lincolnite went out on a ride-along with PC Rich Precious from Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
PC Rich Precious has been a police officer for 22 years after joining the force in 2000 and he recently rejoined the Roads Policing Unit, working out of Louth.
PC Precious, who also previously worked as a family liaison officer for road deaths for 16 years, took The Lincolnite out in his police car to the A1 up to Colsteworth and then back to Grantham. He described that particular area as “one of the main arterial routes that goes through Lincolnshire”.
PC Rich Precious driving down the A1 up to Colsterworth. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Speaking about the new Roads Policing Unit, he said: “It’s intelligence led policing, it’s targeted policing in areas that have been underrepresented in terms of police presence, on the roads certainly, over a number of years.
“We’re hoping that the development of this unit will help address that balance, and look towards using the ANPR system to prevent criminals’ use of the road, and to identify key areas or routes where there’s a high percentage of people killed or seriously injured on the road, what we commonly refer to as KSI.
PC Precious is helping to keep the roads safer in Lincolnshire. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
When asked if he thinks the new team will help reduce the number of serious and fatal accidents in the county, he added: “That’s what the the unit designed for. Sadly, in Lincolnshire our road network does seem to incur a number of those KSI accidents year on year, and we need to reduce that.
“I’ve worked additionally in my roles as a family liaison officer on road death for 16 years, so I’ve seen first hand the impact that road death has on families and victims families.
“I know it’s important that we try and reduce those because, it’s very sad to see how a fatal road traffic collision can affect a family and the victims of that family.”
Marc Gee, Inspector for Lincolnshire Police’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
Marc Gee, Inspector for the Roads Policing Unit, told The Lincolnite: “Every day there will be officers on duty from both teams and they’ll cover the whole county or the county’s roads.
“Eventually, we’ll have nine police cars and we’ve got six motorbikes. We’ll be utilising them with as many officers as we can every day basically to make our roads safer and enforce against the criminals who feel like it’s okay to come into the county and use our road for criminal purposes.”
Lincolnshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones at the launch of the force’s Roads Policing Unit. | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite
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