Growth Planning
Growing your business starts with the right plan. Support for your business journey begins here
Growth means whatever your business ambitions are. That might mean making more money, taking on more staff, opening new stores or working more efficiently and up-skilling your team so you have more time to yourself!
Whatever growth means for you and your business, the Growth Hub probably has a business support programme that can help!
We have a range of business support programmes that could help you and your business. Below are some of the details of what is on offer plus we have access to a database of information and resources to help with your business questions.
You don’t have to worry about which support is right for you – that is why the Growth Hub are here! Together we will have a free business review to discuss all the options and point you in the right direction.
Access to Finance can help with:
- Leadership development & coaching
- Change management
- Productivity review and improvement support
- Innovation management – where you are and support to develop
- Strategy development - for marketing, sales, supply chain and any other areas
Digitisation for Manufactures (D4M) can help if your business makes products with:
- Leadership
- Change management
- Efficiency through use of technology
InFocus helps ambitious businesses. Maybe you are just surviving and aim to be to thriving? Or you are doing well and want to reach new heights. They can help with:
- Assessing your business framework
- Entrepreneurial type / business diagnostics
- Growth wheel/growth plan – a deep dive into key business areas and action planning.
STRIDE can help your business if you have new product or services, with:
- Marketing and marketing & competitor analysis
- Product and service innovation
- Product development
- Marketing strategies
Talent Match are here to support your workforce development to facilitate business and employment growth, improve productivity and increase efficiencies through:
- Business growth and planning
- Affordability and benchmarking
- Attracting the right talent with the right strategy
Evolve Futures' Clean Energy & Marine team provide 1-to-1 business support to give you new perspective on your business, development and future growth plans:
- An independent strategic review
- A review of their marketing and new business generation
- New product development support and guidance
- New product launch and support with access to finance
Evolve Futures offer 12 hours of bespoke 1:1 business mentoring, which is suitable for early-stage founders or SME leaders working in a businesses that are experiencing or anticipating significant growth.
Outset VCSE works with voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations to increase confidence, knowledge and skills, improve their sales performance, implement a viable marketing strategy and increase their turnover and profitability.
The support sustains and accelerates growth, enabling organisations to access new markets and create new job opportunities and apprenticeships, including:
• Leadership and management workshops
• Upskilling through topical masterclasses such as social media, digital marketing and finance management
• Recruitment and team development – staffing structures, core values and business culture • Training workshops covering business growth planning, marketing, skills development, productivity, financial management, governance, funding and much more.
• Tailored 1:1 support to develop realistic action plans
• Regular networking events
• Peer to peer mentoring
• Ongoing 24/7 access to a range of useful online resources