Working with communities to develop enterprise

Welcome to ACBBA

Association of Community Based Business Advice

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We strongly believe in the establishment of business support rooted at community level, with business advisors based within community organisations, as the most effective way of promoting enterprise development at grass root level.
We are determined to gain broad support for these concepts, including funding support, from development agencies and government departments.

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How to be a Brilliant Community Based Advisor

ACBBA has just published "How to be a Brilliant Community Based Business Adviser", click here for more info.


News

ACBBA launches guide for Business Advisers

13 November, 2008

ACBBA has just published “How to be a Brilliant Community Based Business Adviser”, a reference book for business advisers and other professionals interested in new approaches to business development. Des...
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 Launch event at Herbert Smith
 to but the ACBBA guide online

‘One size fit all’ enterprise policies cannot succeed!

1 August, 2008

Research into Turkish and Chinese small business owners just published by Drs L. Altinay, of Oxford Brookes University and C. Wang, of Royal Holloway University of London, show that - although there are many issues shared by these two groups of ...
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 Turkish and Chinese businesses research

ACBBA case study in Customer First website

18 July, 2008

Customer First has just included a case study on ACBBA where we explain what motivated us to seek that quality standard and how have we benefited from it.     ACBBA Case Study

Supporting Bangladeshi Women Entrepreneurs

26 June, 2008

Over 70 people – including members of the Bangladeshi community, delegates from the Prince’s Trust, Greater London Enterprise, London Development Agency, City Fringe Partnership and the British Library - g...
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 Event pictures

Latin American Cuisine: Creating Exciting Business Recipes

12 May, 2008

Earlier this year an event for Latin American businesses in the food industry was held inspired by the Cook Your Business concept developed by Bibiana Crocitta, former community based business adviser and now an ent...
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Horn of Africa Entrepreneurs Launch Business Association

30 March, 2008

Two exciting events for businesspeople from the Horn of Africa region took place in February and March of this year. Organised by Yosias Tadesse, business adviser from the Ethiopian commu...
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