The opportunity
We were presented with an opportunity to tender for some business back in October/November 2011, thanks to our friendship with eBay/PayPal – working hard with them around Magento, and being based in the same town of Richmond meant we could be a good fit for a partnership of a really different kind for us.
Quoting Christina Conroy, Director of The Adult Enterprise, the concept of The Adult Enterprise is very simple -
“to develop a national curriculum for Adult entrepreneurship that includes a whole unitised qualification framework, training materials and a train the trainer programme so that local providers can provide high quality enterpreneurship skills training to enable individuals to create, launch and grow new businesses”
Requirements from a website design agency for third sector services
The Adult Enterprise were looking for branding (both online and offline), guidelines, imagery, initial holding page build, a second, larger website, and a third website to connect firstly to partners and colleges within their network and later, directly to students who require the services.
An aside
So why did LogicSpot get involved with this project? Well apart from applying and successfully winning the tender process, against some really good, strong London and further afield competition, we chose to get involved with this project for personal reasons. Mark, the founder and CEO of LogicSpot spends most of his time socialising and networking with SME business owners and entrepreneurs. He regularly meets people around him who have the desire to start their own business, and it’s not their passion that stops them but how to execute – he really sees the Adult Enterprise curriculum will deliver all that, in bite-sized chunks, and handhold and drive people forward.
A business buddy of Mark’s started a business 3 years ago said to him about a year ago – “Mark, I’ve no formal training, I’ve not been to business school, so how do I know if I’m doing this the right way?” His only option he saw at the time was to go to do an MBA at great time and expense, or to continue doing what he thought was best – there’s now a much better approach – sensible sized courses, with real, usable results and a qualification to boot. He’ll now be recommending the curriculum to everyone he knows.
As a web desing/development agency, Logicspot is a little bit different in that we work with companies from startup to 150,000+ employees. We often work with people who want a brand or a website, but are not sure of the other pieces in the jigsaw to setup and grow their business. We see Adult Enterprise being able to provide not only instant results but a well-rounded education to tens of thousands of people in the UK taking the plunge into self-employment.
Growing an SME
It’s vitally important for small businesses to gain the skills to grow. A business owner has to wear many hats – from HR boss, to finance director, social media expert, online website boss, you name it … Adult Enterprise allows that small business owner to gain and grow those skills.
It’s fantastic to be a part of something that’s transforming in society. We were very proud to be chosen by Adult Enterprise as a key supplier of services – nearly all our work to date has been to businesses, but to get the opportunity to work with Christina Conroy and a very motivated team of people is superb – there’s a real social purpose behind the Adult Enterprise that creates a buzz and energy whenever we get together – we know we’re up to something pretty amazing, and we’re really pleased to be a part of it.
Delivered
We’ve delivered brand – both online and offline, guidelines, initial website, other material and further websites. We are next moving on to other work with The Adult Enterprise and want the relationship to go on and on – the people in the partnership are amazing, the project is superb fun and to be honest, the whole project is just a huge pleasure to be a a part of.
- Service tags:
- website design
- brand