Please note: In addition to our growth programmes, businesses can receive expert advice to support their coronavirus recovery through our #BoostYourRecovery campaign. Contact our advisers below:
If you’ve been trading for more than three years and employ more than 10 staff, this funded programme is tailored to your needs and will support your ambitious plans to achieve significant growth.
This hugely successful and popular programme places a fully-funded, experienced mentor on your team to support you on your growth journey. Quite often our mentors become a key part of our clients' teams.
If you’re a new or start-up business, this funded programme will help you to define your growth plan and give you all the support and knowledge you need to make it a huge success.
Are you looking to develop new environmentally friendly low carbon products and services, or make your business more competitive by reducing waste or increasing energy efficiency?
Be the Business is piloting a range of different activities in Lancashire, all aimed at encouraging business leaders to share and learn from each other, and all designed to fit in around the demands of running a business.
To help businesses navigate a way through this challenging year, Be the Business are providing fully funded mentoring from successful business leaders to SME decision-makers.
Do you need help understanding what regulations apply to your business and ensuring you achieve and maintain compliance? BBfA is a government initiative to help you do this.
Do you want a tailored business growth plan for your company and introductions to relevant support for growing Lancashire businesses?
We can help Lancashire SMEs, start-ups and entrepreneurs in the digital and creative sector grow with advice, practical help, workshops, masterclasses and research or through collaboration.
Are you bamboozled by social media? Mystified by SEO? Know that VR and AR could improve your business but you're not sure how? Digitalplus will give you impartial advice and practical support to learn more about these digital tools and how to use them to boost your business.
Are you a Lancashire manufacturing or engineering business dealing with challenges like improving productivity, an ageing workforce, difficulties recruiting and/or upskilling your staff?
From international transport to rural education, ESA Business Applications has enabled data from satellites to transform businesses. We have already invested over £500m in launching innovative services in businesses.
The ESA BIC UK provides access to funding, expertise and networks to support entrepreneurs and start-ups utilising space technology to grow.
Are you a manufacturing or engineering business aspiring to enter the nuclear supply chain - in new build, operations and decommissioning?
Are you an existing company in Lancashire with an overseas parent company? Would you like help securing more investment and / or support for further expansion in Lancashire?
There’s more money than ever before but most SMEs fail to raise investment! Led by experienced venture capital investors, we help SMEs prepare for venture capital, angel investment and crowd funding and can introduce you to investors.
Are you looking to develop yourself as a leader in addition to growing your business? Want insights and inspiration from leading UK businesspeople while building up a network of fellow business owners from across Lancashire?
Are you the owner of or a senior manager in a Lancashire creative or digital business? Would you benefit from sector specific leadership development workshops and the opportunity to network with a group of your peers?
Have you got the leadership skills and know how to manage the adoption of Industrial Digital Technologies by your business?
Are you over 18, and have a great new business idea? Do you (or your partner) currently receive Jobseeker's Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance or Income Support? You could get help to start up in business.
Are you a Lancashire business working in, or aspiring to work within, the aerospace sector? Do you need help to promote your business within the sector and to keep abreast of trends and developments affecting your industry?
Peerworking is a client-focused approach to networking, held bi-weekly for business professionals to attend, receive advice and share best practice. This brings the business community together, creating a powerful support network which offers solutions to difficulties and challenges ways of working
Are you aged between 18 and 30 and unemployed (or working fewer than 16 hours per week)? You could get help from the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme to help you to start up in business.
Are you a Lancashire-based manufacturing and engineering SME looking to increase productivity through the empowerment of your workforce? Do you want access to the latest techniques, thinking and research on productivity and workforce engagement?
U Start will support students, graduates and university staff to unlock their entrepreneurial potential and become enterprise ready. The project will also support student, graduate and university staff start-ups to increase their resilience and enable them to be growth ready.
