If you're thinking of signing up for the She Inspired Business Playbox - the dedicated support programme for women exploring self employment - we want to get to know you better so we can help you achieve your dreams.

Before you complete this form, make sure you have read the below introduction. If you have any questions about the programme, or you're unsure about what you're doing and if the Business Playbox is something for you, you can always email us at crf@solvers.studio, or speak to your contact who referred you.

Supporting local women into entrepreneurship

The She Inspired Business Playbox is a programme designed for budding women entrepreneurs looking to create their own business, especially those in the green and sustainable sectors. Working in collaboration Zinthiya Trust, Community Enterprise Engine, and Future We Want, we're helping 60 women in Leicester learn and test their business skills, and another 60 women move towards their employment goals.

Through a series of co-designed workshops, group and individual coaching and mentoring support, as well as the opportunity to explore entrepreneurial skills through running their own pilot business, those who sign up to the programme will create their own path to prepare for the world of self-employment. Every entrepreneurial journey is unique, and every business owner has their own circumstances and challenges to overcome; through the She Inspired Business Playbox, we aim to give women in Leicester the tools to forge their own path and support one another by creating a strong network of peers, agencies, mentors and fellow startup enterprises.

She Inspired Business Playbox workshops include:

- Business idea generation, helping participants to create great sustainable eco business ideas rooted in real world problems

- How to plan great business models, using some design thinking approaches to develop new approaches to business

- Using market research and lean customer development to select and develop business ideas

- Intro to effective business product/service design, prototyping and testing ideas

- Green Powerup – introduction to carbon literacy, how to do an eco-sustainability appraisal of new products/services

- Costing and financing your business

- Legal compliance - tax liabilities, health and safety, company law regulations, insurance, employment law, organisational policies, and procedures​