Links and Resources:

The pathcreating approach to tendering is being featured in a case study - http://www.skillfair.co.uk/info/news.asp?NewsID=380

SMEs
The following organisations are providing a lot of services and information:
Federation of Small Businesses     www.fsb.org.uk

Free visits of a business adviser for businesses with 5 and more employees, free information and workshops for all businesses, Business Link for the West Midlands
www.businesslinkwm.co.uk

Women in business
Advocacy body for organisations supporting women in business   www.prowess.org

Supporting women in rural enterprise across the UK                  www.wireuk.org/

Regeneration
For regeneration news, workshops and information and a lot more in the West Midlands
www.regenwm.org

Try regennet for UK wide news          www.regen.net/

Anyone working on the local level can benefit from the local government association website: www.lga.gov.uk (news, reports, events etc.)

 

Publications by Inge Hill on reaching out to hard to reach groups in business.
Minority women in business
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/research/Researchpapers/researchPapersInEnvironmentalAndSpatialAnalysis.htm
Go to 74. Inge R. Struder Migrant self-employment in a European global city - the importance of gendered power relations and performances of belonging for Turkish women in London. 36 pp, July 2002, ISBN 0 7530 1580 3 - – click on the highlighted title to access the paper

Turkish businesses in London
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/geographyAndEnvironment/research/Researchpapers/researchPapersInEnvironmentalAndSpatialAnalysis.htm
Go to - 88. Inge R. Strueder Do Concepts of Ethnic Economies Explain Existing Minority Enterprises? The Turkish Speaking Economies in London December 2003 ISBN: 0 7530 1727 X – click on the highlighted title to access the paper