This event is only available and is FREE for Bath & North East Somerset residents.
Transform your passion for caring for others into a fulfilling self-employment opportunity!
Join us for a workshop led by industry experts Michael Auton from Community Catalysts and Cool Ventures, where you’ll learn how to start working for yourself by supporting people in their homes or in the community.
This workshop is perfect for you if you want to earn a living from making a difference in the lives of older and disabled people.
Background in professional care is not required! You can offer services such as companionship, personal care, overnight care, home help & housekeeping such as laundry, shopping, cleaning, gardening, hairdressing, dog walking – all sorts of services. Additionally mobile services offering support for health such as nail or foot care.
If you have a passion to work with people and want to be your own boss, this event will give you the knowledge, resources and confidence you will need to set up.
Agenda:
From 9.30 am – Registration and coffee
10 am – 12 noon
Presentation from Michael Auton from Community Catalysts including:
- Introduction to Community Catalysts
- What is the Development Programme?
- What are the Doing it Right Standards?
- Understanding Homecare as a Sole Trader
- Option for Care & Help at Home services
- Creating your Portfolio of Evidence – Link to NACAS website
- Promoting your business – Small Good Stuff
- Meet with a Micro Enterprise which has completed the Development Programme
- Q & A
12 noon Lunch
12.30pm – 2.30pm
Presentation from Cool Ventures Emma Smith (Start Up Expert) – setting up your own business as a Sole Trader.
We will provide refreshments, please bring your own lunch.
Who should attend?
Any Bath & North East Somerset residents exploring ideas about becoming self-employed and starting a business in home care.
A bit about your presenters:
Community Catalysts help local people use their energies and talents to form sustainable community enterprises that can support other local people, creating jobs and volunteering opportunities. Michael Auton, the project lead in the B&NES area, has worked in the charity sector for over 30 years, the last 10 years running his own Fundraising and Marketing consultancy.
Emma Smith is Cool Ventures business start-up expert who runs a number of businesses and has been advising individuals on how to start and run a successful business and obtain funding for over a decade.
Funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund
