Let’s Talk About Self-Employment has been funded through the European Social Fund (ESF).

The ESF is a European Union initiative that helps people who need additional support to enter jobs, improve their skills and develop their potential at work.

ESF opportunities are helping offenders to gain skills and connect with the workplace.

This website is targeted specifically at offenders who are in the last two years of their sentence.

The guide is aimed at people living in areas covered by the England ESF Objective 3 programme (i.e. all of England except the Objective 1 areas of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Merseyside and South Yorkshire).

Since 2000 ESF has invested around £4 billion of ESF money in employment and training projects in England. This has benefited over 4 million people.

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The Let’s Talk About Self-Employment booklet on which this online resource is based was written by Jo Knight (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education – NIACE), Claire Robinson (NIACE) and Julia Grimes (NIACE Consultant) and published by NIACE. This online resource was produced by ANQ

 A PDF version of the original document is available for download at:

Front Cover (PDF)
Main Document (PDF)