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The Kingdom Business Forum are holding a Visitors' Open Day on Wednesday 18th January 2012 at 6:45am to be held at The Steadings, 93 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY2 5RB.

If you’d like to attend the open day, please contact Julie Sullivan either by e-mail at jks@businesslaw.co.uk or by phone on 01383 721621

13 January 2012

Winning Team Fife School Enterprise Challenge

Launch of Fife Schools Enterprise Game & Final of the Schools Enterprise Challenge

The official launch of the Fife Schools Enterprise Game took place today at a Culture of Enterprise event held at Carnegie Conference Centre, Dunfermline. The event, part of the Fife Business Week programme, brought together an impressive number of local business leaders, educational representatives, teachers and pupils from across the region.

The new Schools Enterprise Game, introduced by the Fife Economy Partnership, has been developed by Fife Council as a way for young people to learn about business, enterprise and the Fife economy. The Fife Schools Enterprise Game involves young people ‘running’ their own business in groups, using their entrepreneurial skills to make their initiative as successful as possible.

08 November 2011

Fife Business Week 2011 - Programme of Events Released

The Fife Economy Partnership announces the 2011 Fife Business Week.

Last year, the Partnership launched Business Week to highlight the many advantages Fife offers for businesses - high calibre staff, first class infrastructure links and acknowledged centres of excellence in many sectors. Following last year’s success, this year’s programme has doubled in size with an unprecedented level of support from colleges, business groups, and partner organisations which embodies the very spirit of good entrepreneurial progress.

The Partnership is ambitious to see the local economy continue to flourish and hope that this year’s programme of events will prove popular and stimulate discussion, sharing of ideas and best practice as well as opening up networks and business opportunities.

27 September 2011

Charity Race Night in aid of the Mary Leishman Foundation

At the beginning of June we held a fund-raising charity race night; in total we raised £1,000 which we decided to donate to the Mary Leishman Foundation

Kirkcaldy Business Forum’s Chairman, Colin Shipton, explained "Businesses can take themselves too seriously at times which is why one of the most important aspects of our group is to have fun, whether it’s in business, at our meetings or raising money for worthwhile causes such as the Mary Leishman Foundation."

He continued, "As small businesses that rely upon the local area we are delighted to be able to make a massive difference for fantastic causes that do so much for the community."

28 June 2011

Chairman Willie Brown Presenting Cheque to Graham Maxwell from Fife Employment Access Trust

Charitable Donation to Fife Employment Access Trust

In December the members of the Kingdom Business Forum donated £5 each instead of sending Christmas cards to each other a total of £150 was collected which was presented to Graham Maxwell from Fife Employment Access Trust by the chairman Willie Brown

Fife Employment Access Trust are a registered charity (SCO22263) and were originally established 17 years ago by a group of concerned individuals who had experienced mental health conditions but felt that they or a member of their family weren’t being given enough consideration for their mental health in the workplace.

10 February 2011

Enterprise Project Pilot with Caskieberran Primary School

Caskieberran Primary School is the first primary in Scotland to be chosen to take part in an exciting enterprise project pilot with Dunfermline based Tree Of Knowledge. The apprentice event which has been running successfully in secondary schools for sometime now is being piloted with Primary 7 pupils.

Tree of Knowledge (TOK) is a motivational speaking company dedicated to putting the fun back into work. It is a Fife company run by an innovative team, whose sole ambition is to make work a better place for everyone.

Studies show that a worker who finds work boring and easy is not as productive as a worker who is motivated and challenged. If they do not feel valued, then their business is facing a problem, and Tree of Knowledge is there to help.

Event Programme

12 November 2010

Fife Business Week

Fife is well recognised as a place to do business, with high calibre staff, excellent infrastructure links and acknowledged centres of excellence in many sectors. The Fife Economy Partnership is ambitious to see the local economy continue to flourish and this Business Week will showcase Fife’s business success and foster a greater sense of entrepreneurship.

The impressive programme of 22 events, seminars and workshops is designed to reach a wide audience. It demonstrates how a broad mix of public and private sector support agencies, business experts, academics and entrepreneurs can stimulate exciting ideas, collaborations and solid business developments.

Events include:

18 October 2010

Visitors' Open Day

The Kingdom Business Forum are holding a Visitors' Open Day on Wednesday 13th October at 6:45am to be held at The Steadings, 93 Bennochy Road, Kirkcaldy, Fife, KY2 5RB.

If you’d like to attend the open day, go to the Visit a Meeting page and fill in your details, alternatively add yourself to the list of attendees on LinkedIn or Facebook.

03 October 2010

Guest Speaker - Aidan Grounds - Federation of Small Business

The Kingdom Business Forum welcomed Aidan Grounds from the Federation of Small Business as our guest speaker.

The Federation of Small Businesses is the UK's largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has 213,000 members across 33 regions and 194 branches.

The lobbying arm - led by the Westminster Press and Parliamentary office - applies pressure on MPs, Government and Whitehall and puts the FSB viewpoint over to the media. The FSB also has Press and Parliamentary Offices in Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast to lobby the devolved assemblies. Policy Managers work alongside Regional Development Agencies to further FSB influence at a regional level.

28 July 2010

Guest Speaker - West Fife Enterprise

The Kingdom Business Forum will be welcoming representatives from West Fife Enterprise for next weeks' meeting (30th April 2010).

26 years ago West Fife Enterprise was formed by a group of local activists from the West Fife villages when the coal mines began to close. The objective behind West Fife Enterprise has always been to skill local people and help them to move into employment. Our core group of participants are 16-19 year olds, one of the hardest hit groups of people through the recession. We are striving to equip our participants with the skills employers want and help them to move into employment opportunities; but we can't do it alone - that's why we need you to come along to the meeting next week to find out how you can play your part in skilling a workforce for the future.

22 June 2010