WE HELP
BUSINESSES GROW
Benefit from our expert business development support
Do you have a business or a business idea which would benefit from some expert support? We can help
Who we are:
The Reaseheath Business Hub has formed exciting partnerships with many local, regional and national employers.
Our aim is to provide first-rate, sector-specific expertise to help businesses have a positive impact on the community and economy.
Over the last ten years, we have invested over £80million in state-of-the-art specialist facilities and technical resources. As an employer you can access these facilities for bespoke training, research and trials.
We’ll work you to understand and meet emerging skills gaps through high quality apprenticeships, work placements and professional training and help you grow and succeed through applied research, innovation and knowledge transfer.
Explore the sections below to see how we could help your business grow.
Accelerate Programme
Accelerate Cheshire and Warrington is a £30M programme that has been designed to support businesses to reskill and upskill their current workforce. This programme is in partnership with the University of Chester and is partly funded by the European Social Fund.
We can support your business to grow in many ways such as:
- Providing apprenticeships for employers
- Work placements for employers
- Professional training courses to help upskill your workforce
- Offering tailormade conferencing and seminar facilities, meeting and interview rooms and networking space.
- Opportunity to launch collaborative research and trials with Reaseheath students
- Access to hire professional high standard facilities
Reaseheath College in partnership with the Cheshire and Warrington Business Growth programme provides fully funded support for local:
Pre-start: Entrepreneurs looking to start a business
New start-up: Trading less than 42 months
SME: Small and medium-sized enterprises trading over 42 months
The BGP can support any SME business in the region, at any stage of its life, from the initial idea, through to first sale, first employee and up to business sale and exit.
Signing up to the programme entitles you to a business diagnostic that will help identify your needs and the support that best fits with your plans to grow and become more successful. You will be eligible for at least 12 hours of free support, and you can speak to experts in areas such as farm diversification, food and drink and the rural and land-based sector.
We can work with you and provide access to our applied research, innovation and knowledge transfer services. We also offer high-quality facilities which can be used for training, trials and product development, and for professional training to enhance your knowledge of a specific sector.
For more information on the innovative projects we are working on, please click here.
Reaseheath Business Hub can offer you:
- 1:1 support
- Business planning
- Start-up advice
- Marketing
- Access to funding
- Product development and testing
- Staff recruitment, development and training
- Providing apprenticeships for employers
- Work placements for employers
- Professional training courses
- Offering tailormade conferencing and seminar facilities, meeting and interview rooms
- Opportunity to launch collaborative research and trials with Reaseheath students
- Access to hire professional high standard facilities
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