About us
Enterprise North East Trust is a not for profit private limited company; its vision is to generate and recycle wealth, to energise and inspire individuals, as a result improving the economic prospects of its communities.
Contact us
Send us an email:
hello@enetrust.com
Give us a call:
01224 289700
Write to us:
Enterprise Business Centre, Admiral Court,
Poynernook Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5QX
History of Enterprise
Aberdeen Enterprise Trust was formed in the mid 1980's followed by three rural trusts, Kincardine and Deeside (KADET) based in Aboyne, Gordon Enterprise (GET) based in Inverurie and Enterprise North East (ENE) based in Peterhead. These four Trusts merged in 2002 to form Enterprise North East Trust (Enterprise).
The flexibility of the four trusts in Grampian and their ability to work together and finally merge allowed Enterprise to continue to serve the business community and to expand into new areas such as property, leadership and entrepreneurship development.
In 2007 Enterprise successfully retained the contract to deliver Business Gateway services in Grampian and won the contract to deliver the same in Tayside.
Enterprise now employs over 60 staff and delivers business services from Banff to Perth.
What is an Enterprise Trust?
The Enterprise Trust model was originally established in the early 1980's in an environment when the Scottish economy was undergoing significant change. Traditional industries such as coal mining, steel, shipbuilding and heavy engineering were all in decline.
This had significant impact on local communities and Enterprise Trusts were established as locally led initiatives across Scotland to support the regeneration of communities through focusing on small businesses.
The Enterprise Trust model incorporates the following characteristics:
- Core activity: encouraging & supporting entrepreneurial activity, creating a steady stream of successful new businesses and supporting the development of established Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) generally of size of up to 250 employees.
- Ethos: adding value for SMEs locally through the experience and knowledge of their Boards of Directors drawn from both the private and public sectors.
- Acting as market makers in service provision and in doing so working with the private sector.
- Engaging with the private sector locally and nationally in the development of new and established SMEs.
- The Enterprise Trusts are run as a business and generating surpluses but re-investing surpluses in services for the benefit of clients.
- Locally-based with a long term commitment to the area they serve developing long term relationships with their clients. In many areas Enterprise Trusts also deliver Business Gateway contracts.
(source: Business Enterprise Scotland; http://www.bes.org.uk/about/ )
Enterprise North East Trust 2011
A selection of other YouTube films:
- Enterprise North East Trust in 2011
- Enterprise North East Trust in 2010
- Enterprise North East Trust in 2009
