Growth Hub Workshop Tendering Opportunity
A new tendering opportunity is open to businesses that can deliver a workshop programme for the Growth Hub.
The Humber Business Growth Hub (HBGH) #GrowMySME programme is seeking the delivery of a Workshop programme to SME owners and employees across the Humber LEP Region. The workshop programme will involve the provision of a series of one day (8 hours), half day (4 hours) face-to-face workshops plus One to One and One to Many Masterclasses (2 hours). The #GrowMySME workshop programme is
Rural Community Energy Fund
The Rural Community Energy Fund is being delivered by Tees Valley Combined Authority across the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber*.
Tees Valley Combined Authority has £1.35 million available to support community groups in rural areas across the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber region develop renewable energy projects.
The purpose of the Rural Community Energy Fund is to provide feasibility and project development grant funding to rural community groups that want to develop their own renewable energy projects.
Scale-Up Business Development Programme
The programme is delivered on behalf of the Growth Hub by Winning Pitch.
This programme is targeted at senior leaders of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) to develop their skills, knowledge and expertise to enable growth within their business. This programme offers support to businesses in the Humber LEP area focusing on 1-2-1 coaching, workshop and peer support to develop their leadership and management skills.
The support that the programme offers include:
Scale-Up Leadership Assessment Tool – A thoroughly tested leadership needs analysis
About the New ICT for Growth Business Start-Up Grant
The grant is available
to all ERDF eligible SMEs (less than 12 months old) to help towards ICT related
business start-up costs, for example getting connected to superfast broadband
services (minimum of 30mbps). £1,000 grants available for projects totalling
£2,000 – £2,500 (for larger projects the general ICT for Growth Grants may be
more appropriate).
Grant Support
available includes:
New or
upgraded connectivity (30mbps+) including purchase of associated IT
equipment e.g. routers, Wi-Fi boosters etc. initial 12 months contract costsICT Back- Up SystemSpecialist Software e.g. Microsoft Office,
Accounting etcPurchase of 1
Time to Scale Up – Humber Businesses invited to Business Breakfast Summits
A brand new programme designed to help ambitious businesses take their next steps to scale and grow at pace will be launched in the Humber in October.
The Humber Business Growth Hub’s new Scale-Up Business Development Programme has been designed to support established businesses that are ready to scale up their operations.
This exciting new programme – a specialist strand of the Growth Hub’s Business Growth Scheme – will provide tailored support to business owners, leaders and senior managers, that will include
SME Leaders Programme – Grants available
If you have any questions please email Catherine.Capone@raeng.org.uk
Contractor set to more than double turnover with help of £100k NPIF loan
L-R Dan Haley, CEO at GW Power-Safe, Paul Arthur, Mercia, Mark Wilcockson, British Business Bank, Phil Glover, Humber LEP
A fast-growing Hull contractor is set to double its turnover and create 10 new jobs after securing a £100,000 loan from NPIF – Mercia Debt Finance, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
It is the second round of NPIF funding for GW Power-Safe, which is led by 31-year-old entrepreneur Dan Haley and which provides mechanical and
Entrepreneurs win NPIF backing for online lead generation tool
(L-R) Gareth Alexander, LiveLead, Jason Kay, LiveLead, Diane Cheesebrough, Non Exec LiveLead, Sarah Newbould, British Business Bank, Simon Crabtree, Mercia, Phil Glover, Humber LEP (credit: Shaun Flannery)
A Humber business which has developed an online lead generation system to help SMEs access new business opportunities has secured a £250,000 investment from NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, which is managed by Mercia and is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
LiveLead lists tenders of all types from over 500 different portals as
The APC Technology Developer Accelerator Grant Programme (TDAP)
The APC Technology Developer Accelerator Programme (TDAP) supports micro, small and medium- sized companies* who are developing cutting-edge automotive technology, products and services.
The programme is publicly funded by the Department for Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and targets early stage innovations that are aligned to the Automotive Council’s strategic technologies.
These need to have the potential to ultimately reduce vehicle emissions and create value for the UK.
Since its launch in 2017, TDAP has helped over 30 companies increase
The department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Hull is looking for software projects for their Masters level students
The department of Computer
Science and Technology at the University of Hull is looking for software
projects for their Masters level students and would like to invite you to
submit your proposals for free software development.
As
part of the fourth year of study, our candidates are required to participate in
an in-house (at the University) placement where they work part-time to develop
real software for real clients in small teams. These are self-managing agile
teams but are supervised by a commercial manager and supported by a team