Prince 2 Practitioner Consultant Project Manager Currently working with Capita Business Services on major BBC Projects, including Internal Change Management Project and Outsourcing Transition Project.

BDO Stoy Hayward is the UK member firm of BDO International, the world's fifth largest accountancy network with more than 600 offices in 100 countries. We specialise in helping businesses, whether start-ups or multinationals, to achieve their goals. Through our own professional expertise and by working directly with organisations, we've developed a robust understanding of the factors that govern business growth. Our objective is to use this to help our clients maximise their potential.

Business in the Community is a unique movement in the UK of 700 member companies, with a further 1600 participating in our programmes and campaigns. We operate through a network of 98 local business-led partnerships, as well as working with 45 global partners.

Our purpose is to inspire, challenge, engage and support business in continually improving its positive impact on society. We are the largest and longest-established organisation of its kind - an independent business-led charity with over 20 years experience.

Membership of Business in the Community is a commitment to action and to the continual improvement of their company's impact on society. Our members commit to: Manage, measure and integrate responsible business practice throughout their business Impact through collaborative action to tackle disadvantage Inspire, innovate, and lead by sharing learning and experience Companies join Business in the Community because they recognise the value of integrating policy and practice and the internal dialogue this prompts.

Seamus Canavan and Associates is an established Chartered Town Planning, Environmental and Development Consultantcy, which consists of Town Planners and Landscape and Architectural staff and specialised Associate personnel, who are contracted as required, with full administrative and office resources and support.

The Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) is Ireland's largest business organisation with 59 member chambers representing over 12,000 businesses nationwide.

Creggan Enterprises is a social economy enterprise company. Over the past 10 it has established the Rath Mor retail business complex, helped obtain over £9 million investment to the city and reactivated statutory, private and community enterprise activity in the local community.

The members of the global Ernst & Young organization help companies in businesses across all industries - from emerging growth companies to global powerhouses - deal with a broad range of business issues. Our 114,000 people in 140 countries around the globe pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality and professionalism to provide clients with a broad array of services relating to audit and risk-related services, tax, and transactions.

Our Mission is:

To create and promote a deliverable vision for the regeneration of Derry~Londonderry, to secure the communitys commitment to that vision and to pursue single-mindedly its implementation.

Invest Northern Ireland was formed in April 2002 by the Northern Ireland Government as the main economic development organisation. Our strategy is to add value to the economy and create wealth.

As well as companies and individuals, we work with universities, FE colleges, local councils and other public sector organisations to achieve objectives.

JCI Londonderry is part of a worldwide personal development organisation, namely Junior Chamber International, consisting of over 300,000 members in 125 countries.

An ActionCoach Business Coaching Franchise serving the Northwest of Ireland. As a coach, Niall,a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, works with business owners in five key areas. The emphasis on each area depends on the needs of the business, the type of business and the business owner's goals. The key areas are: Sales & Marketing; Finance; Team Building and Recruitment; Systems and Business Development; and Customer Service. Niall's goal is to help entrepreneurs spend less time working in the business and more time working ON the business. He works with business owners to redefine their dreams and vision, and then put into place the necessary systems, strategies, and tactics that will allow them to turn their business ventures into thriving, successful enterprises.

NORIBIC was established in 1986 with the aim of contributing to economic development throughout Northern Ireland by stimulating entrepreneurship and innovation and optimising success of local entrepreneurial initiatives.

NORIBIC is a full member of the European Business and Innovation Centre Network (EBN) comprising over 160 member BICS across Europe. Each BIC is designed to meet the unique requirements of its region and to complement and co-operate with other EU, national and regional enterprise support mechanisms.

The BIC Network provides NORIBIC with direct access to European markets, information and knowledge, and successfully supports the development of transnational linkages between Northern Ireland companies and European businesses and organisations.

NWDO plays a key role in driving forward the regeneration and development of Londonderry in particular, and the North West in general, in a comprehensive and integrated way.

The North West Development Office assumes urban regeneration responsibilities under the Department for Social Development for Londonderry and the neighbouring towns of Strabane and Limavady. The Department for Social Development and the Department for Regional Development have agreed that the North West Development Office will take additional roles in respect of overseeing the City Vision process and implementation of the Regional Development Strategy at sub-regional level.

Cresco: ( latin ) to Grow - Advance - Promote - Increase - Expand

The Cresco Trust is a not-for-profit social economy organisation, which will have charitable status. It is a company limited by guarantee and has been created with a Board of Directors representative of the wider community in Northern Ireland.

Mission:

The Cresco Trust is committed to providing opportunities to learn, engage, and progress, for those people who are disadvantaged within their own community.

Research has shown that women see business start up as a way out of poverty, as a supplement to family income, a remedy to job loss or a remedy to the 'glass ceiling' etc.

WIE target economically disadvantaged women who face recognised traditional barriers to enterprise. We have designed a package of Programmes to meet a wide variety of needs, in particular we focused on being able to provide finance for part-time business development as well as for small service type business and home-based business who often find great difficulty in accessing finance.