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The Growing Club increases employment and business skills training for women with National Lottery Funding growing club news july 2023
26th July 2023
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The Growing Club increases employment and business skills training for women with National Lottery Funding
Lancaster-based social enterprise The Growing Club, which has been providing employment skills training, business start-up and sustainable business growth programmes for women since 2016, has been awarded £260,000 by The National Lottery Community Fund to support their work over the next five years.
Funding Q&A: Alan Reid BOO_FundingHub_QAs3
26th July 2023
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Funding Q&A: Alan Reid
Alan Reid is an innovation growth specialist at RTC North and part of the Innovate UK EDGE programme. He shares his top tips for businesses seeking funding.
Helping Lancashire businesses: Ten steps to building your team from the first employee Ten steps to building your team from the first employee
25th July 2023
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Inspiration & Spotlight
Helping Lancashire businesses: Ten steps to building your team from the first employee
Building a team from the first employee is an exciting and critical step in growing your business. Building a team from the first employee is an exciting and critical step in growing your business.
Funding Q&A: Jonathan Nelson BOO_FundingHub_QAs2
19th July 2023
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Funding Q&A: Jonathan Nelson
Jonathan Nelson is fund manager for Rosebud, a Lancashire business loans provider and a proven alternative lender to high street banks and traditional finance providers. Jonathan shares his top tips relating to business funding.
Start-ups on the rise in North West according to trade body figures Leading the way as a start up or fledgling business BANNER
18th July 2023
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Start-ups on the rise in North West according to trade body figures
The number of start-ups in the North West is on the rise, according to figures from the UK’s insolvency and restructuring trade body R3.
Funding Q&A: Alison Powell BOO_FundingHub_QAs 1
11th July 2023
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Funding Q&A: Alison Powell
Alison Powell is a senior loan manager at GC Business Finance. Here, she shares some insights into how to secure funding and what mistakes to avoid.
Funding Q&A: Ian Moore BOO_FundingHub_QAs2 1
4th July 2023
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Funding Q&A: Ian Moore
Ian Moore is managing director of Blackburn-based TymeOnline, which offers marketplace solutions via online sales channels such as eBay, Amazon, OnBuy and B&Q amongst others. Here, Ian shares some valuable tips from his own funding journey.
Businesses offered opportunity to work with Lancashire County Council to deliver new £2.9m Boost programme Boost logo web 1
28th June 2023
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Businesses offered opportunity to work with Lancashire County Council to deliver new £2.9m Boost programme
Lancashire organisations are invited to apply to work with Boost to deliver its new programme of business support between September 2023 and March 2025.
Lancashire women in business lead the way in finalists announced for 2023 Enterprise Vision Awards evas 2023
20th June 2023
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Inspirational Women
Lancashire women in business lead the way in finalists announced for 2023 Enterprise Vision Awards
Women in business in Lancashire are leading the way as 51 hopefuls are amongst the outstanding female entrepreneurs revealed as finalists at the 2023 Enterprise Vision Awards (EVAS); the UK’s largest business awards dedicated solely to women.
Inspirational Women Q&A: Nikki Hesford, The Small Business Academy BOO_Inspirational_Women_Nikki Hesford
14th June 2023
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Inspirational Women
Inspirational Women Q&A: Nikki Hesford, The Small Business Academy
Nikki Hesford operates The Small Business Academy based in Blackpool, which provides small and start-up businesses with the tools, knowledge and the skills they need to make their new business a success. She shares her own inspirational Lancashire woman in business story.
Six Dysfunctions of SMEs: Ineffective use of Data Ineffective use of Data
7th June 2023
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Inspiration & Spotlight
Six Dysfunctions of SMEs: Ineffective use of Data
Addressing the most common six SME dysfunctions which regularly inhibit effective scale-up. The SME Productivity & Innovation Centre (PIC) at Edge Hill University is an internationally recognised Centre of Excellence supporting SMEs to achieve growth through scale-up.
Inspirational Women Q&A: Elizabeth McQuillan, Flamingo Car Finance BOE7CE1
22nd May 2023
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Inspirational Women
Inspirational Women Q&A: Elizabeth McQuillan, Flamingo Car Finance
Elizabeth McQuillan is the co-founder and managing director of Flamingo Car Finance, which acts as a broker to empower women with the knowledge they need when it comes to buying a car. She shares her own inspirational Lancashire woman in business story.

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