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Apprenticeship Recruitment & Training
Get help with sourcing and training apprentices.
Barclays Digital Wings
Grow your digital and money skills with us. Our mission is to make learning digital skills and financial literacy easy, accessible, and empowering.
Business Academy
We can help you to grow your business – whether you’re looking to strengthen your presence at home, or expand into global markets.
Business Academy: Start your business
A free six-part series helping aspiring entrepreneurs turn ideas into thriving businesses with expert-led sessions and practical tools.
Business Support Service
A free service for small businesses to find the right support and impartial advice.
Centre for SME Development
Connect and learn together.
Connect to Work
Free personalised support helping Lancashire residents overcome barriers, find sustainable employment, or stay in work through expert guidance and tailored assistance
Creative Industries Grant
Support for companies who work in moving image for storytelling, spanning film television, games, animation and immersive industries.
Creative Leadership & Management Bootcamp
This 10-session programme is tailored for aspiring and current managers across Lancashire's thriving creative sector.
Digital Boost - Begin
A course for aspiring female entrepreneurs
Digital Skills
A free online mentoring platform designed to support small businesses, and charities in enhancing their digital skills
Digital Skills Support for Businesses and Charities
Free digital skills training, mentoring, webinars and resources to support business growth and charities across Lancashire UK
Engineering Pre-accelerator Programme
Transforming great ideas into new engineering startups.
fhunded
Lancashire's dedicated early-stage investment initiative.
Funding for Research and Innovation across Europe
Funding for research that improves European research standards or responds to challenges like climate change or food security.
Gigabit Broadband Voucher
Help for those experiencing slow broadband speeds in rural areas.
Global Business Support
A dedicated key account management service for global businesses based in Lancashire, supporting inward investment, expansion, and the creation and safeguarding of jobs across the Lancashire region.
Health Innovation in the NHS
Support to health and care innovators and businesses across the North West
Help to Grow Management
A national business growth programme designed for senior leaders.
Help to Grow: Management Essentials
A free, online course that explains the essential business concepts required for growth.
Innovate UK Business Growth
Innovate UK Business Growth is a publicly-funded service available to all high potential small to medium-sized innovation-driven companies.
Intellectual Property - IPO
For those who need help identifying and protecting the intellectual in your business.
International Trade - Chamber Of Commerce Support
International trade services to help you succeed in international markets.
Lancashire Careers Hub
Lancashire Careers Hub connects employers and educators to inspire young people, improve career outcomes, and build essential skills for future employment
Lancashire Cyber Security Services
The North West Cyber Resilience Centre provides free expert-led cyber security support helping Lancashire SMEs improve resilience identify threats effectively
Lancaster University Management School
Helping small and medium-sized businesses seize opportunities.
Low Carbon Support
Supporting environmental and energy saving/efficiency good practice.
Made Smarter
Advice, leadership training and grant funding for SME manufacturing businesses.
National Cyber Security
Resources for organisations and individuals to help them recover from a cyber attack, and improve their cyber resilience.
NatWest Entrepreneur Hub
Whatever size or type of business you have, we've got a range of programmes and useful tools to help you succeed. There's also opportunities to join networks of specialists and like-minded peers who could offer help and guidance as you grow.
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II: Debt Finance
Helping smaller business owners to deliver their business ambitions
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II: Equity Finance
For companies with high growth potential
Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund II: Smaller Loans
For entrepreneurs wishing to start their own business, or an early stage or more established small business looking to grow.
Office of the Small Business Commissioner
Helping small businesses tackle late payments and poor payment practices.
Productivity Programme - Delivered by Be the Business
Be the Business is spearheading a business-led drive to help companies across the UK improve their performance.
Recruitment Support
View a range of recruitment services that can help you as an employer.
RedCAT
RedCAT works with low carbon technology innovators to take their technologies through commercialisation and investment.
RedCAT Ventures
RedCAT Ventures knows the world of investment and we keep the interests of the planet front and centre; in every deal we create.
Rosebud Finance
Enabling Lancashire's most ambitious businesses to grow
Skills Bootcamps
Ease your recruitment challenges by employing a Skills Bootcamp graduate.
Skills City
Leading digital technology Skills Bootcamps
Skills Pledge
Find out more about Lancashire’s key skills and training initiatives.
Social Enterprise and Community Funding
Provide flexible loans and grants to help enterprises startup, become sustainable and grow.
Space Agency Incubation Centre
Startups utilising space technology in any way at all can take part.
Space Technology
Help for companies to integrate space data and technology into commercial services.
Start Up Loan
Government-backed personal loan available to individuals looking to start or grow a business in the UK.
Startup Support for Young People
If you’re 18 to 30, living in the UK and unemployed, or working fewer than 16 hours a week, and have a business idea or some ideas to explore, the King’s Trust Enterprise Programme could be for you.
StartUp UK
StartUp UK is a pioneering scheme by Enterprise Nation, to provide free tailored support.
Tender Opportunities
Find out details of public sector tender opportunities.
UK Defence Innovation (UKDI)
UK Defence Innovation accelerates breakthrough technologies from concept to frontline, strengthening national security, supporting defence businesses, and driving UK economic growth.
WorkWell Lancashire
WorkWell Lancashire offers personalised support helping people with health conditions start, stay, or return to work with expert coaching and guidance

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