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Lancashire Support Spotlight: finance

Boost’s latest monthly Lancashire Support Spotlight shines a light on the Lancashire funding landscape.

Lancashire Support Spotlight

Lancashire Support Spotlight: manufacturing

There is a huge wealth of business support available to Lancashire companies focusing on a range of business sectors, key issues and markets. We spotlight five as part of a new series.

Inspiration

Growing with care: Planning for business growth in a volatile economy

Many successful businesses do grow in tough climates. The key? Planning for growth in a way that’s flexible, informed, and realistic.

Inspiration

Staying ahead: How to future-proof your brand in a fast-changing world

There was a time when branding felt relatively straightforward. You created a logo, picked a typeface, printed some brochures and put your sign above the door. Job done. But those days are long gone.

Today, we’re in a landscape where everything is in flux - technology, platforms, audience behaviors, even what people expect from the brands they buy from.

For businesses looking to grow or stay relevant, branding isn’t something you set and forget. It’s something that evolves. The brands that succeed are the ones that aren’t just keeping up - they’re built to move with the world around them.

So, how do you build a brand that’s ready for whatever comes next?

Scaleup Insights

Scaleup productivity insights: Stephen Gregson

Inspiration

The big five people challenges facing Lancashire SMEs in 2025 and how to tackle them

Lancashire is full of hardworking, ambitious businesses that make the region one of the UK’s most resilient and entrepreneurial places to live and work.

Inspiration

What is Boost and why should every Lancashire business know about it?

Boost has been in the corner of Lancashire businesses for over a decade, offering impartial advice, funded programmes and connecting business leaders to the best support for them. Whether you're starting out, growing, or navigating change in your business, Boost is here to help.

Building Resilience

Digital defenders: How smart businesses can outsmart the fraudsters

Fraud now accounts for 41 per cent of all crime in the UK, making it one of the most pervasive and costly threats to UK businesses. In this latest Boost knowledge hub article, Alex Abbey, from Meritec, a leading digital transformation company based in Burnley, shares eight practical ways to build stronger fraud prevention practices across your business.

Scaleup Insights

Resilience for scaleups: more key tips from Lancashire experts

Lancashire businesses have faced a range of external challenges throughout the early months of 2025. Two Zero has gathered the thoughts of three further experts from Lancashire’s scaleup ecosystem for the second part of our series assessing the unique challenges these issues present for Lancashire’s fast-growing businesses and advice on how to stay resilient.

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Inspiration

Tracking the right things to focus on as a business owner

Business owners must have the right blend of leading and lagging indicators. Rod Horrocks, Boost business adviser for the Growth Catalyst programme, outlines the right things to track and focus on as a business leader.

Building Resilience

Building resilience: The importance of a support network for business growth

Boost business adviser Amir Shafiq, who is part of the Boost Growth Catalyst team, outlines how a well-connected network can assist you in navigating the many challenges of running a business.

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Inspiration

Distribution channel diversification: How to access new markets

Boost Scale to Thrive business adviser Joe Twigg provides a guide to help you strategically diversify your distribution channels and unlock growth potential.

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