20 Years of Bootstrap

In April 1987 Bootstrap Company (Blackburn) Limited commenced operation in Blackburn trading as Bootstrap Enterprises.

Bootstrap offers a range of services:

  • business development support, including training, advice and guidance to local people considering self-employment and to community and voluntary groups looking to develop social enterprises
  • supporting unemployed local people into employment, by facilitating and providing work experience and training
  • training and consultancy to public bodies and other voluntary organisations with similar objectives

We target services at areas of poverty and high unemployment, in particular areas where unemployment levels are significantly higher than the national average.

Today Bootstrap offers:

  • Business Advice
  • Social Enterprise Development
  • Employment Advice and Guidance
  • Accredited Training
  • New Deal Placement Opportunities
  • Consultancy and Training for the Third Sector
  • Delivery of Advice and Guidance NVQs
  • Train the Trainer Accredited programmes
  • Delivery of Community Development NVQs
  • Retail Training at our Lions Bookshop
  • Pennine Lancashire Allotments Reclamation project

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