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Objective 4

Start-Ups & Entrepreneurship

137
Inquiries received
between July and December
127
Consultations
between July and December
14
Workshops hosted
between July and December

Promoting Entrepreneurship through the Business Advisory Centre

October

Why Peterborough?

Presented to the Innovation Cluster’s Start-Up Visa Program

October

Business Planning Introduction

Presentation to Trent University Entrepreneurship class

November

Entrepreneurship as a career

Entrepreneurship presentations to Employment Ontario Centres (EPC Peterborough, Agilec) 

Starter Company Plus Fall Intake

PKED’s Fall intake of the Starter Company Plus program provided micro grants to eight local small businesses, the largest intake to date.

Summer Company Program

Throughout July and August, youth entreprenuers in Peterborough & the Kawarthas and Northumberland County participated in the Summer Company program including attending Bootcamp Training sessions in partnership between PKED’s Business Advisory Centre and Northumberland’s Business and Entrepreneurship Centre