Tuesday 19 September - Amaze Yourself Project

The Amaze Yourself project is a new free, start your own business training and support programme for the unemployed. It has been developed to help increase enterprise activity in the Humber Region. The programme is designed to provide business skills training, enterprise experiences and personal mentoring - all free - to the unemployed/economically inactive who wish to set up their own business or become self-employed. The first Amaze Yourself programme begins in Hull on Tuesday 19 September.

9.30am - 12.30pm each Tuesday and Thursday for 4 weeks 8 training skills sessions commencing 19 September and ending 12 October 2006 Related Enterprise Visits and Workshops will primarily take place between mid September and mid - November Venue - Hull area, exact venue to be confirmed. Further programmes will operate in various locations around the Humber Region during 2006 and 2007.

To find out more, please visit the website at www.hull.ac.uk/cll/amazeyourself If your group knows people who could benefit from this initiative, now or in the future, please let them know about the programme and contact Liz Mengrose at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Hull. Phone 01482 465127 Email amazeyourself@hull.ac.uk.

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