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CFE and the New Entrepreneurs Foundation join forces
The Centre for Entrepreneurs has joined forces with the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF) – a charity whose vision is to transform UK business by developing the entrepreneurial leaders of the future – to create a new combined not-for-profit “entrepreneurial powerhouse” to tackle some of the challenges that are holding back the wider take up of entrepreneurship in the UK.
Press release
What we aim to achieve
News
- UK firms missing out on £100bn by ignoring tried and tested tech, says CBI (Telegraph)
- PM affirms commitment to world-class tech sector (gov.uk announces doubling of exceptional talent visas and £21m to expand Tech City UK nationwide)
- Hammond plots business rates revolution (CityAM)
- Call to end ‘deadweight’ research and development tax breaks (BBC)
Opinion
- How to solve the SME credit dilemma and rekindle the nation’s faith in capitalism (Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond introduces his new paper, ‘A new era for retail bonds‘)
- The gig economy is here to stay – now give the workers rights (Rohan Silva, co-founder, Second Home)
- Titans of history: Lessons from the entrepreneurs who built Britain (Liam Bryne, shadow digital minister, introduces his new book, ‘Dragons: Ten entrepreneurs who built Britain’)
- We finally have proof founder CEOs make the worst CEOs (Corinne Purtill, QZ comments on research that analysed 13,000 mid to large firms across 32 countries)
- The high street isn’t dying, it’s merely transforming (Alex Loizou, co-founder and CTO, Trouva)
- Just East has just proven that Britain’s competition watchdog is totally busted (Oliver Smith, senior reporter, The Memo)
Features
- Rolling Stone: Elon Musk: The architect of tomorrow
- Award winners:
- NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards – Birmingham and Manchester
- Lloyds Bank National Business Awards