June 2007 – April 2008 Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI)
Our research was used to inform the development of additional business enterprise standards in areas such as family business, work-life balance, home working, informal finance and international trade and identify good practice in learning and development support for people starting and running small businesses. As well as a review of existing literature and consultation with SFEDI fora the work included twenty focus groups and forty-eight individual interviews.