The largest gathering of business support and funding providers in the Humber since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic takes place this week.
The Hull and East Yorkshire Growth Hub is hosting the drop-in event, with at least 14 separate schemes and organisations to be represented. It takes place at Aura Innovation Centre in Hessle on Wednesday, with expert advice, cutting-edge guidance, and grant funding to help growth highlighted.
HEY LEP Growth Hub manager Jon Brunton said: “Growth hubs were originally set up to help simplify the ‘business support landscape’ for local businesses, so it is fitting that the Hull and East Yorkshire Growth Hub has coordinated this business funding and support drop-in event.
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“We believe that this is the largest in-person gathering of business funding and support providers in the region since before the pandemic. Whilst we fully appreciate how busy business owners and leaders are, it will be really worth their while to visit the drop-in event to see how they can benefit from the range of business funding and support available in the region.”
It will be held between 8am and 1pm at the Bridgehead Business Park, with a ‘marketplace’ of business support and funding providers. Knowledge ranging from exporting and innovation, through to flood resilience to digital technology adoption, will be on offer.
Gill Alton OBE, chair of the HEY LEP’s Business Support Board, said: “There is currently a wealth of funding and support available for businesses in the region, though we appreciate that the breadth of support can sometimes be overwhelming for business leaders. That’s why HEY LEP’s Business Growth Hub has brought together many schemes and organisations, so that businesses can literally drop in and meet these providers all in one place, and all at the same time.
“Some of the funding and support schemes will come to a close in the 2023, so it is really vital that local businesses access this support and funding whilst it is still available.”
Attendees will be able to meet with the teams from The HEY Growth Hub, The Department for International Trade, Sparkfund, The Flood Innovation Centre, Innovate Humber, The Apprenticeship Hub and Federation of Small Businesses with schemes including The #GrowMySME Programme’s Business, Finance and IT Growth elements, The HEY LEP Growing Places Fund, The Hull Business Energy Efficiency Scheme, The Humber Internship Programme and The Business Scale Up Programme.
It is free to attend with more than 70 delegates signed up. For more information click here .
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