New body to give advice to fledgling enterprises

Tuesday 24th May 2011, 3:00PM BST.

JBV chairman Julie Melia

A BODY similar to Jersey Finance is to be set up to give advice to businesses in the Island.

It should be up and running by the start of next year and will be governed by an independent board.

Currently a division of a States department and a separate mainly publicly funded body are both providing the service free of charge.

Part of the intention is to save money in the medium to long term but still provide a comprehensive service, especially to people starting up their own business.

The new organisation is to be created as a result of a merger between the internal section of Jersey Enterprise – which is part of the Economic Development department – and Jersey Business Venture.

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J R R Trollking

May 24, 2011 at 11:06 pm

Good idea and long overdue.

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Andy

May 25, 2011 at 1:11 pm

Doesn’t the Jersey Bussiness Venture already do this? They have certainly helped me in the past.

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Jersey Social Media

May 26, 2011 at 3:01 pm

This was just an idea over a week ago and on day one there were over 30 nominations and 21,000 news feed impressions.

We have now been asked if Guernsey can take part and the answer is YES to ALL the Channel Islands. Here is a link to the Facebook Page it’s called Jersey Social Media Awards for best use of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn etc

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jersey-Social-Media-Awards/122562994491362

Have a nice day everyone

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Skeptical Charlie

May 26, 2011 at 5:28 pm

Only advice they can give at the moment is to shut up shop.

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Gino Risoli

May 27, 2011 at 12:05 am

Sorry, an absolute waist of money and resources.

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