Tamworth Borough Council are inviting established, new and early-stage businesses, to its first business support breakfast event for 2024.
Join the event for free advice and support from business experts and partners and learn about all the free help and grants available to you and your Tamworth based business.
The ‘marketplace’ event takes place on Wednesday 7 February from 8am – 10am at the Tamworth Assembly Rooms. You will meet a variety of experts offering free business advice and grants from partners including South Staffordshire College offering details on skills support and apprenticeships; Chambers of Commerce detailing their offer of start up support and established business networking, plus many more business providers.
To secure your FREE place, book online via: Tamworth Business Support 2024: Launch Event Tickets, Wed 7 Feb 2024 at 08:00 | Eventbrite. Or drop in on the day.
The event is aimed at helping businesses grow, with the help of fully funded, practical support and the opportunity to join the free ‘Get Started and Grow’ and ‘Ignite – Tamworth Start-up Support programme.
‘Get Started and Grow’ offers small businesses from pre-startup to five years old, funded packages of support in marketing, social media, HR, finance and legal advice.
Whether you are looking for guidance on your HR, want to perfect your branding or get help from a qualified accountant, or help to plan your financial future; more details here: getstarted@staffordshire.gov.uk.
Ignite - Tamworth Start-up Support package, is delivered by Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce and is made up of free advice, workshops, mentoring and support to help people who want to start out on their own and set up a business in the Tamworth area. More details here: info@staffordshirechambers.co.uk.
Anyone looking to start their own business will be able to access support including:
- Enterprise Workshops
- Access to the Ignite Platform
- One2Three Club – Networking and Advice session for businesses in their first 1-3 years of trading
- Accelerator Sessions – Online workshops
- Signposting to wider business support – links to funding wider business growth programmes.
The Staffordshire Growth hub will be available to discuss mentoring support, help with business planning, sourcing funding, and ways to make your business more sustainable and cost effective with their brokerage to the Green Solutions programme running in Staffordshire.
The event is being supported by UK Shared Prosperity Fund, a government incentive that supports eligible businesses.
For more information, please contact the economic development team via phone: 01827 709709, or email: Business@tamworth.gov.uk.
Councillor Thomas Jay, Leader of Tamworth Borough Council, said: “We are excited to welcome small local businesses to our first breakfast event, offering support to help local businesses develop, grow and expand.
“We know many businesses, shops and restaurants are working under very different conditions with the cost-of-living crisis and inflation. Therefore, we really want to reach out and offer additional free business support.
“By working closely with business partners, we can offer free advice and put businesses in touch with expertise that can help market their USP, build their brand recognition, upgrade their digital support and drive their business growth.”
Notes:
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus.
Tamworth Borough Council also offers various support for local businesses, including start-up grants, growth advice and training opportunities. These are all outlined at tamworth.gov.uk/town-centre-business-support-package
To keep up to date with events for Tamworth businesses, please sign up to the Tamworth business hub platform: https://tamworth-town-centre-business-hub.mn.co/.