This new initiative was started by Business Insight with Opening Doors with Best for Business providing the one to one services, co-ordination and management of the scheme. It operates from the Birmingham Carers Centre, in partnership with Carer organisations and is funded by Best for Business as part of our social message, council funding having been withdrawn before the project started. Business Insight provide resource support with Best for Business providing delivery and management with 767 people starting businesses in its first year of operation from the target audience of 102,000 registered carers in Birmingham..

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Globagroup International Plc in partnership with New Visual Media and Community First delivered on the Your Community First project, this privately funded project was to develop an international social network for both able bodied and disabled alike, delivering a communication platform that breaks down the boundaries and attitudes toward what were once segregated communities. This project not only brings together people from the able bodied and disabled communities but also both communities across the EU.

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Best for Business in partnership with Globagroup International Plc and New Visual Media are developing the Big Society Birmingham Website. The leaders within the cities social enterprise and services community, they, will run this service, as the Big Society Birmingham board will decide on what the service will provide and how the platform will be run. The Big Society Birmingham ethos is to provide the local community with access to Big Society based services and give a voice to the community as a whole on how their services are run and delivered.

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Best for Business outlets in a number of countries are putting together programmes to help Kick-start local economies. These outlets are currently trying to work with local government bodies to provide services for starter businesses, bringing together professionals and advisors to review business plans, advice on the best courses of action, provide routes to possible finance, start up support and possible mentoring services.

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The main benefit of our Gasification process is that it is simple, robust and flexible, in comparison to others. Little or no pre-processing of waste is required, and the plant can adapt to different waste streams if required to do so, throughout its life. Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, bio fuel, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material, such as house waste, or compost at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas or syngas and is itself a fuel. Gasification is a method for extracting energy from many different types of organic materials. The advantage of gasification is that using the syngas is potentially more efficient than direct combustion of the original fuel because it can be combusted at higher temperatures or even in fuel cells, so that the thermodynamic upper limit to the efficiency defined by Carnot's rule is higher or not applicable. Syngas may be burned directly in internal combustion engines, used to produce methanol and hydrogen, or converted via the Fischer-Tropsch process into synthetic fuel.

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No matter where you live, you can take advantage of the sun's natural energy to generate your own electricity and hot water. Even on cloudy days, solar panels can capture solar rays and convert them into electricity or hot water depending on the system. They do this silently and because they don't emit any harmful pollution, they will increase your home's and family's green credentials. Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels convert sunlight directly into electricity that can be used for normal household consumption. All you require is a south facing roof with at least 10m2 of free unobstructed roof space.