Our Entrepreneurs’ Network Events offer a monthly morning of insightful talks and top tips from inspiring local start-ups, professionals, and business owners, a valuable skills exchange session, and a good dose of networking for new and existing entrepreneurs and start-ups.

These brilliant events are FREE and are open to everyone who’d like to learn new ways to develop themselves as an entrepreneur and those with an interest in supporting local business. 

Join us and build your network with an inspiring community of new and developing entrepreneurs!

This is an online event, held on Zoom. Get ready by signing up to Zoom. You’ll get an email to register and then a link to join the meeting.

Details of this month’s speaker…

Our speaker this month will be Sam Holliday, the Gloucestershire Development Manager for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), the biggest business representation group in the country and one full of great entrepreneurs across a wide variety of sectors.

Sam will talk about what the FSB does, how it could potentially help your growing business, and also discuss some of the exciting opportunities running your own business could bring you along with some tips and advice he has picked up about how to get yourself noticed and grow.

Schedule

09.45am Enter Zoom waiting room

10.00am Event start time

10.05am Introduction to Start and Grow Enterprise

10.10am Guest talk

10.30am Q&A

10.40am Around the room introductions

11.00am Open networking in breakout rooms

12.00pm Event closes

Attending our free business support courses

Are you thinking of starting your own business, or do you want to know how to develop and grow your start-up?

Wherever you are on your business journey, Start and Grow Enterprise provides free training, events, expert support resources, and a powerful community to help turn your ideas into reality and grow a successful enterprise.

Simply join on our website to apply for our free support to help you start and grow your business.

START – you’ve got a big idea and a dream, let’s make it happen!

For those who haven’t yet started their business…

Start-up Day Our start-up day is the first step on the way to building a successful business. You’ll cover the most important elements of getting ready and getting started, along with those roadblocks that we see so often when great ideas meet reality.

Our Business Planning workshop will introduce you to an invaluable tool that will get you well on your way to a full-length business plan. Our Business Registration workshop will guide you through the process of formalising, structuring, and registering your business.

GROW – your business is off the ground. Let’s take it to the skies.

For early-stage business owners…

Growth Day Take your business from good to great; hone in on your specialisms, your markets, and solve those challenges which have been building up in the background.

Growth Workshops After your Growth Day, you can hand-pick another 2 workshops that focus on a challenge specific to the growth of you and your business.

Growth Coaching The fastest-growing firms will be hand-picked for a package of free coaching, to help them keep the pace up and take their business even higher.

£1,000 Enterprise Voucher Apply for a reimbursed grant to grow your business!

The Entrepreneurs’ Network Events are offered by Start and Grow Enterprise; a University of Gloucestershire project, part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Start and Grow Enterprise supports the growth of Gloucestershire-based entrepreneurs and start-ups (trading up to 2 years) through free training, events, networks, and resources.

DATA PROTECTION: Start and Grow Enterprise activities are provided free to participants if you meet the eligibility criteria. We will use the information you supply: A) to provide business support to you and to inform our delivery partners as appropriate; B) to share with the University of Gloucestershire and MHCLG (or their sub-contractors) for monitoring evaluation and audit purposes. We will keep all information you provide confidential and treat it in accordance with the current Data Protection legislation.

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