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Growing a business

Business owners and leaders looking to grow their established business can benefit from a wide range of business support offered throughout Coventry and Warwickshire, dedicated to helping SMEs on their growth journey. 

Coventry & Warwickshire Growth Hub's experienced, commercially focused Account Managers, work with SMEs to identify the challenges they face, obstacles to growth, and new opportunities, to ensure they have access to the right tools and business support at the right time. 

With hundreds of business support programmes and initiatives available across Coventry, Warwickshire and the West Midlands, as well as national government-backed business support programmes, our Account Manager's unparalleled knowledge of the support available makes them an invaluable, fully-funded resource for SMEs.

Whatever your business needs for growth, whether it's external funding, marketing advice and training, grants, expansion planning, networking opportunities, overseas trading support, recruitment and skills support, procurement opportunities, mentoring, or connections and introductions, the CW Growth Hub team can help.

How it works

Step one: tell us about your business.

Fill out a few basic details about your business on our short contact form, or drop us an email, including your business' legal status, your industry sector, number of employees, and contact details, and we'll get back to you within 2 working days.

Step two: let's have a chat

Once we have received your enquiry the Account Manager, who looks after the area in which your business is located, will get in touch to arrange a suitable time for a conversation about your requirements and, if applicable, arrange a visit with you.

Step three: access dedicated growth business support

Once we know more about your business, your Account Manager will recommend a support strategy and make referrals into relevant business support programmes where applicable. Every business is different and the advice you're given will be tailored to the needs of your business to help you access timely support and take your business to the next stage of growth.

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Frequently Asked Questions

To effectively recruit and/or upskill existing members of your workforce, your Account Manager will help you to identify your specific skills gaps as well as future needs, and can then recommend a range of resources designed to support you with your recruitment and upskilling strategy. It is important for growth businesses create a culture of continuous learning within their organisations, to support ongoing skill development, and CW Growth Hub's experienced Account Managers can help you with this strategy.

A wide range of finance options are available for established, profitable SMEs, including grants for services such as specialist advice, debt and equity finance, asset-based funding, business loans, angel investment, crowd-funding, and business grants.

CW Growth Hub can advise on the range of options available to your business and refer you to dedicated, expert support to help improve your business' opportunity of securing external investment, including Investment Readiness and Access to Finance programmes.

The Coventry and Warwickshire region has a wealth of networking events for SMEs, from sector specific networking events - such as those for the creative sector or professional services, to those aimed at spotlighting Coventry & Warwickshire and bringing together businesspeople from across industry, such as CW Champions and Champions Next Generation. These bi-monthly events provide SMEs with a fantastic platform to network and build business relationships, as well as showcasing the best speakers, venues and success stories from across the region. Find out more about CW Champions.

You can find tender opportunities for your business on a range of online portals. Contracts Finder is the government's procurement website where all public sector contracts over the value of £12,000 including VAT (for central government authorities) or £30,000 including VAT (for sub-central contracting authorities, NHS Trusts, and NHS Foundation Trusts) must be displayed. Local authority procurement use other platforms, on which you can register to receive notifications about relevant tenders, directly to your inbox.

Private and public sector tender opportunities, together with lower value RFQs, and market engagement events, can be found on FinditinCW, a platform with which CW Growth Hub partners to provide an accessible, user-friendly opportunities finder for Coventry and Warwickshire SMEs. It's free to sign-up, however upgraded membership includes enhanced profiles, making it more likely a buyer searching for your services will select your business, access to exclusive Meet the Buyer events, opportunity to promote your news and events, and more. Find out more about FinditinCW.

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