Thursday 1 April 2010 17:25 ——————————- T h e O l d e r p r e n e u r ——————————- News for older entrepreneurs from The PRIME Initiative Welcome to PRIME Business Club’s April 2010 newsletter. You are receiving this entirely free because you contacted PRIME, the charity set up by Prince Charles, - – - read more >

Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:00 PM ——————————- T h e O l d e r p r e n e u r ——————————- News for older entrepreneurs from The PRIME Initiative Welcome to PRIME Business Club’s March 2010 newsletter. You are receiving this entirely free because you contacted PRIME, the charity set up by - – - read more >

Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:23 PM —————————— T h e  O l d e r p r e n e u r —————————— News for older entrepreneurs from The PRIME Initiative Welcome to PRIME Business Club’s February 2010 newsletter. You are receiving this entirely free because you contacted PRIME, the charity set up by - – - read more >

If you’ve started your own business or have become self-employed after the age of 50, here’s a chance to get some free publicity. We’d like to hear from you. We’re looking for stories to put up on the case-studies section of this web site. There are two ways of entering. If you use Microsoft Word - – - read more >

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:58 PM ——————————————————- T h e  O l d e r p r e n e u r ——————————————————- News for older entrepreneurs from The PRIME Initiative Seasons Greetings. Welcome to PRIME Business Club’s January 2010 newsletter. You are receiving this entirely free because you contacted PRIME, the charity set - – - read more >

Upward Curve PR has chosen PRIME as its Charity of the Year 2009 to 2010. “We are so pleased to be able to offer PRIME PR support”, says Helen Ashley of Upward Curve. “We chose them because we felt that with our aging population and the current recession, the charity’s focus is particularly relevant.” “The - – - read more >

Prince Charles describes the work of his charity PRIME and welcomes new sponsorship deal Click on the right arrow button above to start video I am delighted to speak to you today as the President of PRIME – the Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise. I founded PRIME over eight years ago after receiving large numbers - – - read more >

Joint PRIME / Bank of America News Release: 27 November 2007 Embargoed until: 00.01am 1 December 2008 Bank of America and PRIME – Working Together to Support the Over 50s to Find Opportunity in Enterprise LONDON – Research published today, commissioned by Bank of America on behalf of The Prince’s Initiative for Mature Enterprise (PRIME), provides new - – - read more >

Most small business owners would reject the offers made on TV’s Dragons’ Den, according to a poll by accounting software firm Kashflow. Almost two-thirds of the firms participating felt they could get a better deal elsewhere. The Dragons typically offer cash in return for taking a hefty equity stake. The research revealed that business owners - – - read more >

On Friday the 8th of February 2008 at 7pm BBC 2 is showing “Too Young to Retire” – a special edition of The Money Programme about people who are building successful businesses in their 60s and 70s. Valerie Singleton: Tonight on the Money Programme: is your age a barrier to your making it in the - – - read more >

UPDATE: Extra Interviews with Sir Alan Sugar, Professor Colin Gray and Laurie South of PRIME. On Friday the 8th of February 2008 at 7pm BBC 2 is showing “Too Young to Retire” – a special edition of The Money Programme about people who are building successful businesses in their 60s and 70s. One of the - – - read more >

This article in the American CNN Money magazine touches on a problem people are encountering in the UK too. While “we all want our parents to stay healthy and live to be 100, the fact that so many more are sticking around than in previous generations is putting unanticipated financial pressure on their adult children”. - – - read more >

Over one million unemployed people aged between 50 and 65 want a job but can’t get one, according to a new report by the TUC. Only one in eight workless people in this age bracket had retired and were classed as “affluent professionals”, while many who are still keen to work have been forced against - – - read more >