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Welcome to Banana Enterprise Network!

Banana Enterprise Network is a UK registered charity doing things differently in a caring and supportive way!

We set up in 2014 to help unemployed people explore the idea of self employment and gradually expanded our training offer to include other training linked to employment/self employment and personal development training. We also enjoy making things happen for people in the community too by providing community based activities.

Our normal chartiable work involves providing "Real World" pre-business start-up support at grass root level for unemployed people who wish to take their first steps to exploring the idea of starting a business or creating a business idea. We also have a portfolio of online personal development training and one to one support. The support we offer is available free of charge for adults who are registered unemployed but this does depend on what funding we have available at the time.  Our charity work helps to tackle poverty, reduce the number of business failures and build sustainable businesses.

During 2020 (and 2021), our Charity (like everyone else) had to deal with the negative impact of the Covid 19 crisis and adapt. We responded to a "need" in the community and delivered over 1000 care packages to people that needed them. We lost our projected commercial income and had to change the way we work by developing our training to online only.

Before the CV19 crisis began, we had already embarked on something BIG! We decided to look for a building that we could turn into a community focussed and enterprising multipurpose centre, so that we could expand our work and grow. We found Grade 2 listed Rock Hall in Farnworth and decided to take up the challenge of saving this much loved Grade 2 listed heritage building. Since 2020 we have made very good progress and this has continued into 2022. It is the biggest project we have ever started and it is very exciting as well as challenging, as there are many hurdles which we are slowly overcoming one by one. We don't know if we will be successful with getting the funding we need (estimated £3.5m), but we are working hard on behalf of the local community and have over 2000 supporters of our Heritage project so far! UPDATE JANUARY 2022 - We submitted an EOI to the National Heritage Lottery Fund and it has been accepted. The Heritage Fund have now kindly invited us to submit a full bid and we are aiming to submit our £3million funding bid by 26th May 2022.

March 2021 - The National Lottery Heritage Fund awarded us £99,600 for an initial Rock Hall project which helped us move closer to saving Rock Hall as well as providing much needed fun and educational activities for the community.

We are a supporter of the Greater Manchester Poverty Action Group. See their website here http://www.gmpovertyaction.org/about-us/

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2014-2022 Banana Enterprise Network – the charity “helping to remove barriers to self-employment ’ is registered in England and Wales as a company limited by guarantee, no. 09133991 and a registered charity, no. 1161408. UK PRN 10049602

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