New service to benefit High Growth Businesses in the South West
Are you an ambitious business or entrepreneur with the potential to achieve between £500,000 and £1m+ turnover within your first three years of trading?
Whether you’re starting up or less than a year old, if you have the right attitude or innovation – a new product, service or concept – we’d like to help your business achieve its full growth potential.
BRAVE, in partnership with Business West offers a high impact business growth programme to drive your success. Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the programme is free to eligible businesses.
To help you overcome the challenges of the first few years of business, you’ll receive a minimum of 12 hours support, including a dedicated business coach to work with you over an 18 to 36 month period. From producing a solid business plan and identifying key areas for growth, to gaining the right level of finance and fully exploiting your innovation, you’ll benefit from specialist advice, dedicated workshops and practical support – with clearly tabled timelines and responsibilities.
For more information, visit www.growthsouthwest.co.uk
To start you off, you are invited to two free workshops.
Worshop 1
The purpose of the workshop is to provide an informal approach to exploring how to take a raw high growth potential business idea to the next stage. By providing you with the opportunity to explore and challenge that idea with fellow entrepreneurs and enterprise experts this workshop will help you identify and overcome barriers to starting your high growth business. Through facilitated conversations you will take time to evaluate your idea, create a vision for your business, review your aspirations and carry out a reality check. Finally, you will find out how you access one of our highly experienced coaches or mentors to work with you on a one-to-one basis to take your business idea forward.
Workshop 2
Building on the content of workshop 1, the purpose of this workshop is to tighten up on the tougher realities of moving a high growth potential enterprise forward. Facilitated by experienced tutors with input from experts and entrepreneursyou will consider the essential building blocks of starting a high growth business, look at the key stages of growth and map these against the business needs. You will revisit and review your business plans, consider funding and finance in more detail, and continue to identify and stamp out growth inhibitors. Further thought will also be given to working with business mentors and coaches to ensure you make the most this invaluable relationship.
The dates of the next workshops are to be confirmed, but please register your interest in attending by contacting Liz Sands at BRAVE on 0117 944 5330 or Stacey Farmer at Business West on 01275 370760.