Growing a Business
Growth Support Programme
The European Regional Development Fund and local authorities have made funding available to support businesses across Devon. The Growth Support Programme will allow you to access a wide range of expert business support and advice at no cost to you.
The support is offered as a 12 hour package that gives you tailored one-to-one (remote) advice with an experienced business advisor as well as access to free, online business skills workshops and telephone and email support.
The value of this support were you to pay for it would be £600 but the only cost to you is your commitment to the full 12 hours. The more effort you put in to applying and engaging with the advice and support given by your business mentor, the more you will gain from it.
Your support is broken down into specific sessions covering all the major aspects of your business. Starting with an initial consultation to get to know you and your business inside out the advice is then tailored to you and your specific requirements so that you receive practical support and recommendations that you can apply immediately.
After your initial remote one-to-one meeting you will work step-by-step with your business advisor through the following modules: marketing, digital innovation, financial planning and human resources. In some cases support is delivered via an online workshop and the digital innovation module is delivered by our partner Cosmic who are digital marketing and IT experts based in Honiton.
By the end of the 12 hour programme you will be very well prepared to take your business to the next level of success.
The support can be offered to anyone in the Heart of the South West LEP area except for businesses in the following sectors: fisheries and aquaculture, processing and marketing of agricultural products, shipbuilding, schools and education establishments, insurance companies, primary production, coal or steel, synthetic fibres and banking.
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