Enterprise Works

Enterprise Works is an innovative training programme designed to help individuals and businesses in the farming and rural sectors to maximise their existing resources, to grow or to diversify.

The flexible programme offers several ways of learning through short courses, workshops and other practical, hands-on events covering a wide variety of subject areas.

Are you looking for…

• new business opportunities?
• additional ways of generating income?
• fresh markets and new marketing tools?
• or just simply for a better, more effective way of working?

Enterprise Works is an innovative training programme designed to help individuals and businesses in the farming and rural sectors to maximise their existing resources, to grow or to diversify.

The flexible programme offers several ways of learning through seminars, workshops and other practical, hands-on events covering a wide variety of subject areas.

Training through example

The programme's strengths lie in its ability to meet current deficiencies in training for farmers and landowners, and in its unique approach based on 'training through example’:

• using existing, successful businesses and business templates
• using the skills and experience of business professionals
• using business venues and on-location facilities for training
  

Tailor-made training

Another important feature is the chosen formula of stand-alone seminars and workshops that can be chosen on a mix-and-match basis to meet the particular needs of trainees and built on thereafter with more specialised, tailor-made training provision.

Planning and problem solving

The workshops in particular provide trainees with the opportunity to develop their own projects and plans, or solve existing business problems as part of the training process.

A fresh approach…

• training focused on the precise needs of the individual
• training within a commercial and competitive business environment
• unique opportunities to draw on the skills and professional experience of existing successful businesses and entrepreneurs
• a skills and training support system designed to improve the success rate of new businesses
• a menu of courses with a built-in flexibility to meet the changing training requirements of rural businesses and provide a gateway to additional training opportunities

Delivery and funding

Enterprise Works is being delivered by the West Midlands Region of the Country Land and Business Association Ltd. – the leading organisation representing and supporting farmers, landowners and businesses in rural communities within England and Wales.

The Enterprise Works project is supported under the England Rural Development Programme by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.