Inspiration & Spotlight

Lancashire Support Spotlight: how supporting employee learning can help your business grow

This week is Learning at Work Week. Here are five ways supporting employee learning can help your Lancashire business grow.

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Lancashire Support Spotlight: How support can help businesses capitalise on the new financial year

Our latest Lancashire Support Spotlight highlights five ways business support can help leaders plan effectively for growth opportunities as we begin the new financial year.

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Lancashire Support Spotlight: Unlocking growth through strong cyber security

Our latest Lancashire Support Spotlight highlights the ways that strong cyber security can help unlock growth and where businesses in Lancashire can go to receive support.

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Lancashire Support Spotlight: mentoring

To celebrate this year’s National Mentoring Month drawing to close, for this month’s Lancashire Support Spotlight we focused on five ways a business mentor can help Lancashire businesses grow.

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Lancashire Support Spotlight: startup

For those with a business idea or who are just starting out, gaining external support can make all the difference. This month’s Lancashire Support Spotlight showcases five startup programmes which are available to new businesses in Lancashire and can be accessed via the Boost website.

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Lancashire Support Spotlight: finance

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

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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.

Building Resilience

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.

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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?

Inspiration & Spotlight

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.

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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.

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Inspiration & Spotlight

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.

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