Housing association Sovereign is encouraging its self-employed residents across the south of England, including the Isle of Wight, to take advantage of services available from Enterprise Cube – a social enterprise that offers training, access to grants and advice on how to sustain a business through the impact of COVID-19.
The housing organisation is funding £20,000 of access to Enterprise Cube’s services for any of its residents in need of support to run their own business, due to issues caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 20 residents have already accessed help, including one woman who runs her own design company and a qualified beautician who used the time while her business was closed to take a course in social media marketing to ensure that she could ‘bounce back better’ post-lockdown.
Jacqueline Hammond, Employment Programme Manager for Sovereign, said:
“Our strategic focus at Sovereign is to create communities that can thrive, and small businesses and self-employed people pay a crucial part in this. Enterprise Cube can offer support for our residents that is beneficial both financially and emotionally, through one-to-one emails, phone calls and even texts.”
A second round of government funding for self-employed people opened on 17th August, closing on 19th October 2020.
Paul Funnell, Founding Director of Enterprise Cube said:
“There is plenty of government funding out there, which people might not know about including the Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) – and Bounce Back Loans, and many more accessed via local councils and organisations.” We’re here to support self-employed people to get through these challenging times by offering them a helping hand through the maze of options available.”
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To find out more email the Sovereign employment team on [email protected].
Fear not, not slow in coming forward around here.
Horseface, people here certainly won’t be. Many self employed were working on the sly, literally NEVER had it so good they openly tell me.
Of course none will admit it on here, but I know many who have done very, very well from this.