Help to Grow: Management
Expand your horizons and help your business grow with the government’s new Help to Grow: Management scheme.
Businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire can join 30,000 senior business leaders in a practical management training programme delivered by leading business schools across the UK. The scheme is designed to provide the management tools needed to help our talented business leaders innovate and grow their business, driving our economic recovery from coronavirus (COVID-19).
Designed to be manageable alongside full-time work, modules cover financial management, strategies for growth and innovation, leading a high-performance workplace and digital adoption. By the end of the programme you will develop a tailored business growth plan to help lead your business to its full potential with access to mentoring and an alumni network.
The 12-week programme is 90% subsidised by the government as part of its Plan for Jobs to help businesses to drive growth and protect jobs, and is aimed at senior leaders of small and medium businesses.
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Help to Grow: Digital
Help to Grow: Digital, allows businesses to access free, impartial online support on how digital technology can boost their performance and growth through a new platform.
Supercharge your business growth with Help to Grow: Digital
Small and medium-sized businesses across the UK can now access impartial online support to see how digital technology can boost their business performance.
Eligible businesses can claim a financial discount covering 50% of the costs of approved digital technology up to a maximum of £5,000.
With many businesses needing to adapt the way they do business during the pandemic, the support the Government is offering through Help to Grow: Digital will help them to improve their productivity and take the next step to grow.
Software included in the scheme:
- Customer Relationship Management software, which is proven to boost firms’ productivity by 18% on average
- eCommerce software, to help businesses ramp up sales of products and services online. Businesses which adopt eCommerce software see on average a 7.5% increase in sales over 3 years
- Digital Accounting software
To be eligible for the financial discount businesses must be:
- Based in the United Kingdom, registered with Companies House or a registered society on the Financial Conduct Authorities Mutuals Register.
- From any business sector, employing between 1 and 249 people.
- Actively trading for over 12 months, and have an incorporation date of, at least, 365 days prior to application.
- Are purchasing the approved software for the first time.