About Us

The Olderpreneur Alliance CIC is a community interest company dedicated to advocating and positively influencing the policy and support environment for later-life entrepreneurs.

The organisation’s main areas of activity are to:

Provide research and policy evidence for the need to promote and support later-life entrepreneurship.
Campaign and lobby to promote awareness of, and action in support of, later-life entrepreneurs by governments, banks, business support organisations, and others. READ MORE

The Olderpreneur Alliance CIC is a social enterprise with a voluntary Board of Directors, set up with the intention that any profits generated are diverted to a Foundation providing financial support to businesses founded by later-life entrepreneurs.

About Isabella Moore CBE

Isabella Moore CBE is the founder and a director of The Olderpreneur Alliance.

Isabella is the founder and a co-Director of COMTEC, a leading provider of translation services to exporters in the manufacturing, creative, e-learning and computer software industries.

She was the first female President of the British Chambers of Commerce and Vice-President of Eurochambres, the association of European Chambers of Commerce. She was also Chairman of the Confederation of West Midlands Chambers of Commerce and CEO of CILT, the National Centre for Languages.

Isabella has also worked widely in the area of women’s enterprise, including as Chair of the National Women’s Enterprise Panel and President of the Eurochambres Women’s Network.

I have had experience of all aspects of business lifecycle: start-ups; buying and selling several businesses; buying back a business; setting up a new business and see it fail; raising finance from banks and other sources; managing a large network of suppliers; designing and implementing quality standards; establishing competitive advantage in a mature industry; and establishing a family business which is now run by my daughter.

“Entrepreneurs don’t tend to fit into generic moulds and I am certainly no exception! My master’s thesis (would you believe it) was on 17/18th century church pulpits in Central Europe – not exactly the recipe for a budding entrepreneur! But it does help confirm my profound believe that entrepreneurship is an exciting possibility for many more people than ever realise it – and that includes the growing numbers of older people looking for ways to remain not just economically active but rewarded and fulfilled into later life.”

Working in Partnership

GrowBiz

A community-based enterprise support for rural businesses throughout Scotland, GrowBiz was founded in 2007 to help local people build businesses and enterprises for themselves. The research carried out by Isabella Moore CBE on older entrepreneurs was supported by GrowBiz. To read more, CLICK HERE