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.
Access the capital you need to grow your business. Venture Capital investment up to £200k available for high-growth potential technology and science companies in Lancashire.
Do you need skilled workers to safeguard the future of your business? Are you looking for new ideas and energy in your business? Offering apprenticeships can help your business grow.
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?
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 business needing support with assessing your current technology levels, developing your manufacturing processes, growing your business and becoming 'Industry 4.0' ready?
Are you a Lancashire manufacturing or engineering business dealing with challenges like improving productivity, an ageing workforce, difficulties recruiting and/or upskilling your staff?
The Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund aims to help employers in the Greater Manchester and Lancashire areas to address their specialist digital skills needs through short, innovative, bespoke training.
Are you a small business owner fed up with admin taking too much time away from achieving your goals? Receive up to 10 hours of free training worth £1,000 covering finance, marketing, people and time management.
Are you looking to develop your skills or those of your staff? The Learning and Development Service at Lancashire County Council offer a wide variety of Personal Development, Leadership & Management and IT Training courses.
Do you need help to find suitable staff for your growing business? Could you offer Lancashire County Council's Looked After Children, or young people leaving care work experience or employment opportunities?
The fully-funded Chartered Management Institute (CMI) qualifications are designed to build an effective and agile management team that can help your business to be more resilient, stay focused and continue to grow.
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.
Do you have growth aspirations for your business, but you need help to unlock its potential? If that sounds like your business, then the Propel 2 Grow programme is for you.
Are you looking for training for your staff to support your business? Do you want to invest in developing your workforce to improve staff motivation, retention and productivity? Skills Support for the Workforce can help.
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.
UNITEplus brings together Lancashire SMEs wanting to develop capacity through the uptake of new tools and techniques, with students and graduates looking for high quality placements in Lancashire.
Are you a Lancashire based SME looking to increase the skills and capabilities of your workforce? UCLan’s Upskilling Lancashire provides free advice and support enabling businesses to gain new skills and fill knowledge gaps.
