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Practical Business Plans and R&D Tax CreditsStart date: 24 October 2007 Connect Yorkshire's Investor Readiness Programme in South Yorkshire
Sponsored By: South Yorkshire Investment Fund In Association with: Pro - Sheffield Designed for young technology companies, this free workshop will help you understand what makes an excellent business plan and how to ensure investors get beyond the first page! Coupled with hot tips on tax credits, by attending this event you will ensure that you pull together the ultimate business proposition. Speakers: Lisa Leighton, Kevin Davies and Matthew Goodchild of Barber Harrison & Platt
Date: Wednesday 24th October 2007
Venue: The Assembly Room, Holiday Inn Royal Victoria, Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, S4 7YE Map
Time: 4:00pm for 4:30pm start, finishing at approximately 6:45pm
As well as perfecting your executive summary and the key issues that need to be address, you will cover how best to describe the market opportunity and routes to market, the skills of the management team and how optimistic your financial forecasts should be. Our speakers will give you tips on how to summarise your business plan in your executive summary.
The second half of the workshop will focus on the R&D Tax Credit scheme. Our expert speaker will give you top tips for accessing the cash available. Find out how your business can claim, what research & development activities qualify and what costs can be recovered.
The Format
Our workshops are designed with an interactive element, to encourage discussion and ideas amongst delegates.
Refreshments will be served on arrival and the workshop itself will be followed by a buffet with wine, allowing plenty of time for networking.
Should you wish, you can also attend the second workshop 'Intellectual Property Rights and Wrongs' which immediately follows the buffet.
Who Should Attend?
The workshops are aimed at technology and knowledge-based businesses with growth ambitions. All workshops are free to anyone wanting to learn about the investment process or who is keen to understand the financial options available to their business.
Registration
If you want to maximise you chances of raising finance and do all you can to ensure your business achieves its potential, register now for all or any of these events:
Email: events@connectyorkshire.org Tel: 0113 384 5640 This is a free event. However, if you are registered for and subsequently unable to attend, please let us know as soon as possible, in advance. Connect Yorkshire will charge a £25 administration fee per workshop for registered delegates who haven't advised that they can't attend. Other Investor Readiness Workshops
This is the first of six Interactive Workshops which make up Phase 1 of the Investor Readiness Programme. All workshops are free to anyone wanting to learn about the investment process in the lead up to Connect Yorkshire's Investment Forum on 28th November 2007. Attendance at all workshops is strongly recommended for all applicants to the Investment Forum (Phase 2).
The remaining workshops in this series are detailed below:
South Yorkshire Investment Fund's pilot Seedcorn Fund SYIF's Seedcorn Fund aims to invest £4.6million into early stage technology and knowledge-based businesses over the next two years. Filling a significant gap in the financing market, the Seedcorn Fund will benefit ventures which may be seen as too high risk by mainstream investors, offering a secure future for innovation in the region. The Seedcorn Fund is available to help ventures that are based on new and innovative technology with ideas that have strong potential and once in the market, are capable of rapid growth.
Investments will typically be at Proof of Concept or Commercialisation stage and in the range of £15k - £500k. They will be in the form of convertible loans or equity depending on the status if of the proposal.
For further information contact Jonathan Dixon on 01709 386 392 or e-mail jonathand@syif.com. Alternatively for an application form, e-mail application@syif.com
Event Id: 291190 
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