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Published by Fareham Borough Council, each monthly edition delivers news, support and opportunities to businesses in Fareham.
Thriving Together: Small Business Growth Day at CEMAST College
Fareham Borough Council is delighted to be sponsoring the networking lunch at the 'Thriving Together: Small Business Growth Day' at CEMAST on Thursday 27 June. Thriving Together is a day of free workshops designed for start-up and growth businesses, including a networking lunch and small business expo. The day is an innovative collaboration between Solent Business Skills and Solutions, Portsmouth City Council, Southampton City Council, South Hampshire College Group, Hampshire Chamber of Commerce and Fareham Borough Council, to show a united approach to supporting businesses across the region.
The welcome speech will be from Shelina Permalloo, winner of MasterChef in 2012 and local entrepreneur from Southampton. Places are limited and booking up quickly - click here to choose your workshops and reserve your place now. 
Only three weeks until Fareham's big D-Day celebrations!
D-Day 80th anniversary celebrations are happening over the 8-9 June 2024 on the historic former WWII airfield HMS Daedalus (now Solent Airport). The airport is a significant location in history as it was the busiest airfield on D-Day with 435 sorties, so a fitting place to hold these important celebrations. Local residents and businesses are encouraged to attend this fun, affordable community event, and take in the living history where they can experience WWII military equipment, services and displays.
There will be exciting flying and vintage aircraft displays plus entertainment throughout the weekend including a parachute drop, live music, field gun runs, marching bands, a funfair and a motorcycle display team. Visitors are also welcome to bring their own food and camping chairs on-site. Advance tickets are just £12 per adult (more on the day) so be sure to click here to book yours now.
Introducing the Skills and Employment team at Hampshire County Council
The Skills and Employment team at Hampshire County Council offers support, guidance and advice on all aspects of apprenticeships and skills training options. It is a free, impartial resource with a wealth of experience. The team can offer guidance tailored to your organisational needs with expert advisers who can support you in workforce development.
They can work with you to create a strategic approach towards adopting apprenticeships and skills into your organisation by identifying skills gaps, establishing the most relevant apprenticeship or skills training courses, utilising available funding and building a vision for the future of skills development in your workforce. The team can also offer support to organisations who don't pay the apprenticeship levy to access surplus levy funds.
Carol Greaves is the Skills and Employment advisor for Fareham and is keen to support as many local businesses as possible. Click here to email Carol and she will help you identify how and why she can help you and your business.
Get support for your business from university students
Business Consultancy Projects (BCPs) have seen hundreds of local organisations gain a fresh perspective and implement new ideas thanks to collaborations with students from the University of Portsmouth. BCP student teams can help you with a wide range of projects including:
- Developing a social media strategy
- Conducting competitor analysis
- Recommending new products and services
- Creating sustainable ways to attract funding
- Conducting staff interviews
- Evaluating customer feedback.
There's nothing to pay, instead you support the students to apply their learning to your project brief. You get the additional support and capacity, and the students get some great experience to add to their CVs! Click here for more information on how to get involved.
Hampshire Business Awards celebrating excellence in the region
Celebrating talent among the Hampshire Business community from start-ups and scale-ups, to leaders from SMEs. The awards are a partnership between The Business Magazine and Hampshire County Council and the diverse range of categories means there's something for businesses of all sizes.
This highly respected awards programme recognises and celebrates the best in business and the people behind their success in Hampshire. Click here to find out more about the event including categories and nomination process. Nominations close 30 August. Awards evening Thursday 21 November at Farnborough Conference Centre. You've got to be in it, to win it!
New skills programmes are hitting the mark
The first Solent Partners Skills Bootcamps were a great success with over 200 people signing up to one of six free courses. The good news is that the next wave of Skills Bootcamps will cover even more sectors, offering upskilling and training opportunities for those across the Solent who are self-employed, employed or looking for work.
Giles Collighan, founder of the Portsmouth Distillery (pictured above), successfully completed a Digital Marketing Skills Bootcamp earlier this year, and said: "We've already started to see positive changes within the business as we're properly planning ahead with our social media posts to raise awareness of our products and engage with people to build up customer loyalty. I'd definitely recommend Skills Bootcamps."
Many of the courses run in the first wave, like the one that Giles took part in, are running again, with new bootcamps covering more sectors coming online soon. These include:
- Business skills for creatives
- Health and social care
- Catering and hospitality
- Digital marketing
- Sustainability
- Marine electrician
- Transport and logistics
- AI leadership
- Software development
- Screen industries.
Skills Bootcamps are perfect for business owners, the unemployed, those looking to change career or upgrade their skills. Click here for more details about Skills Bootcamps.
We consult with our residents and businesses on a range of subjects
Fareham Borough Council is committed to an open process of consultation and engagement with residents and businesses of the Borough. Online surveys are one of the ways we can gather the views. All our surveys are open to the public and some are required by law and are run under statutory rules. Click here to view and take part in our current, open consultations.
Tell us about YOUR business!
Do you have a news about your own business or a business-facing event taking place in Fareham that we can share? Are there any topics you would like to see in future newsletters? Email economicdevelopment@fareham.gov.uk and let us know. Sent this newsletter by a colleague? Subscribe here.
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