We offer advice and mentoring to become more resilient and embrace new innovative ideas.

If you have been trading for at least six months and run a small business with less than 50 staff, a social enterprise or co-operative, we can offer support in these areas:

• • business growth and sustainability
  • high growth
  • tendering skills
  • digital skills

You’ll benefit from:

• • flexible, one-to-one specialist mentoring with an experienced business advisor who will review your business and help you implement a plan for growth
  • workshops and networking events to help you build on the learning from your mentoring sessions (online during COVID-19)
  • an opportunity to attend group mentoring sessions with like-minded business owners (online during COVID-19). Some in-person workshops will take place from August 2022

Our mentors can support you in areas including:

• • business planning, improvement and efficiency
  • digital technology including advice on website development, paid advertising and customer relationship management export development
  • market intelligence and analysis of emerging market opportunities
  • marketing and social media
  • people and human resource management, including hiring new staff
  • product or process development and commercialisation
  • sales development
  • securing finance and financial planning
  • strategic management, including change management
  • system and process improvement, including use of new IT and software
  • tendering support to help you secure new business