What is Elevate?
Elevate is an exclusive and unique offer for successful applicants to gain high quality, specialist business support to help their business go much further. The programme is for established SME’s in Worcestershire who have been operating successfully and have an ambitious mindset for further growth. Ideally trading for a minimum of three years, with 5+ employees and already a growth champion, the next step will bring new challenges and require innovative solutions.
Is Elevate for your Business?
You may have a clear vision as to where your business can go but would value support to structure your plans, face the challenges and identify solutions. Or the Covid -19 crisis may have set you back or caused you to view your business and its future differently. A new strategy may be required and Elevate can support you to identify and implement the best route to getting your business back on track. Either way, if you have the commitment to drive it forward then Elevate is the programme to take your business to the next level
What Elevate Can Offer
Elevate will support the development of a unique, tailored plan to stabilise, strengthen and scale your business. We recognise that different business sectors face different challenges and to ensure the support available is as valuable and appropriate as possible we will contract with sector experts to provide informed and bespoke advice and guidance. This may include:
Improving productivity
Re-Evaluating market position
Revisiting Financial Plans
Identifying priorities
Increasing efficiencies
Creating a growth culture
Improving processes
Developing the skills to continue growing
On completing the support programme SMEs may apply for grant funding to continue their growth.
What does the Elevate Journey look like?
What do Elevate Alumni think of the programme?
The first cohort of Elevate businesses share how the programme benefitted them and their businesses:
Find out more about the Elevate Programme
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