The Federation of Small Businesses cordially invites you to join us

on Friday 11 May 2012 at The Octagon, Walker Street, Hull HU10 6BL

for the launch of the.....

Guest of Honour: Lord Haskins of Skidby

Agenda:
10.30am 11.00am 11.10am 11.30am 11.50am 12.10pm 12.30pm 12.50pm 1.00pm coffee on arrival and open networking Welcome and introduction (Gordon Millward, Regional Chairman, FSB) Keynote speech (Lord Haskins of Skidby) The perils of starting a business in the 21st Century Yorkshire Enterprise Club The way forward Educating a Generation of Entrepreneurs Supporting Entrepreneurialism Chairmans closing remarks Buffet Lunch and open networking

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Yorkshire Enterprise Club The Concept

We are entering a new era in the history of British industry. Britains industrial heritage was built on the success of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution, which evolved into the Technological Revolution of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Unlike the labour-intensive days of big industry, advances in technology now allow businesses to do amazing things with very little resource. We are entering the Enterprise Revolution, which will be remembered in history as the time when an ideas-based culture overtook the traditional concepts of doing business, where the power of the individual armed with little more than a business vision and a computer rose to the fore. Following the Asian migration of the countrys manufacturing base in the nineties and the economic disasters of the noughties, economic recovery will be driven by the ingenuity, inspiration and courage of a new entrepreneurial generation, working singly or in small collaborative networks. We are seeing the start of an era when rewards will no longer be based on work-input, but will reflect solely results-output; all established concepts of work, employment and career will be radically revised as jobs give way to livelihoods. The UKs economic survival depends on the abilities of this new generation to achieve commercial success, and there is no plan B. The FSB is ideally placed to champion the drive for an enterprise economy, and it is time to ratchet-up our support for start-up business. We have been developing plans for an initiative to encourage more people to set up new businesses and to support those in the early stages of trading. We are now very close to launching a national initiative and, because Yorkshire is universally viewed as being in the vanguard of enterprise activity and ripe for investment, the Yorkshire Enterprise Club is to be the national pilot.

Gordon Millward
Regional Chairman Federation of Small Businesses