Home Enterprise Day
Home Enterprise Day shines the spotlight on people that have started up successful businesses from the comfort of their own homes.
Run by Enterprise Nation – the UK’s largest website for people starting and growing a business from home – Home Enterprise Day takes place on Friday 20 November. It’s an opportunity to raise the profile of home-run businesses, offer confidence to those who are starting out, and provide inspiration to existing businesses looking to grow.
- Read all about the home business roadtrip
- Enter the Home Business Awards
- Attend the Enterprise Nation Conference
- Run your own event
Enterprise Nation founder, Emma Jones, says: 
“There is no better year in which to launch this national Home Enterprise Day. We have been providing information and inspiration to home businesses since 2006 but we’ve never seen conditions like it. More and more people are deciding to do something they love, make it pay, and have the freedom and flexibility that comes with self-employment. They are starting from home because it’s low risk, low cost and involves no commute!”
Home Enterprise Day will recognise inspiring people who are turning ideas into action, hobbies into business, and the spare room in to a fully functioning workspace!
Read about starting a business from home on 
Business Link – practical advice for business
Business Link and Enterprise Nation have developed a guide that helps you decide whether starting a business from home is right for you. Starting a business from home also tells you what you need to do if you decide to go for it.
To find out more go to: www.businesslink.gov.uk/homestartup
Interesting facts
5 to 9 working
Over 5 million people in the UK are holding down a day job and building a business at nights and weekends. We call this 5 to 9 working. The increase is being driven by a desire to earn extra income in troubling economic times and an ambition to turn a hobby/passion/skill in to a way of making a living. Of the businesses being run part-time, 50% are growing and 26% of the owners expect to be going full time within the next 3 months/38% in over a year. These part time ventures will soon become full time businesses - they represent an enterprise renaissance. (‘Working 5 to 9 – how to start a business in your spare time’)
Low carbon
Home based business is intrinsically low carbon. Operating from one property instead of a separate home and workspace cuts commuting. It also reduces the carbon emissions generated by constructing and fuelling separate premises. (‘Can Homeworking Save the Planet’, The Smith Institute)
The stats
- More than 60% of small businesses started from home. (UK Global Entrepreneurship Monitor)
- There are currently 2.5 million businesses being run from home, with ambitions to grow. (ONS Labour Force Survey)
- Home business owners are optimistic about the future with 72% saying they plan to win new customers in the next 6 months and 58% working on developing new products and services. (Enterprise Nation 2008 Home Business Report)
- Over 5 million people in the UK are holding down a day job and building a business at nights and weekends. (‘Working 5 to 9 – how to start a business in your spare time’)
For more information, please get in touch with Emma Jones from Enterprise Nation Email her on emma@enterprisenation.com
