To succeed in a competitive global environment UK businesses, whether small or large, need ongoing access to help and support. Providing it to build the capacity and capability of business, people and regions, as well as addressing market failure, inequality and environmental sustainability is an RDA priority.
We are making it easier for businesses to get government help with a wide range of problems by streamlining thousands of publicly-funded support schemes into one, transparent, easy to find portfolio of products under the readily identifiable banner, Solutions for Business.
The products can be accessed via Business Link, providing help with accessing finance, innovation, research and development, training and skills, exporting and overseas trade and resource efficiency, including low carbon. Many of the products are already. In the South West, many of the support products are already up and running with others expected to come on stream in the next few months.
We have developed the following guide to the products and services available:
Solutions for Business - business support in the South West (Adobe Acrobat Reader Document - 2197.42kb)
The Solutions for Business portfolio is flexible and responsive to business needs, particularly in these troubled times. But it is also an important step on the road to recovery as the government's long term, sustainable, support offer to business.
Solutions for Business products, as per Business Link's themes, are:
Starting Up
1. Enterprise Coaching
2. Starting a Business
3. Intensive Start-Up Support
4. Starting a High Growth Business
Grow Your Business
5. Coaching for High Growth
6. Business Collaboration Networks
7. Business Premises
8. Manufacturing Advisory Service
Developing People
9. Train to Gain
Finance and Grants
10. Finance for Business
11. Understanding Finance for Business
12. Small Loans for Business
13. Grant for Business Investment
14. Enterprise Finance Guarantee
15. Rural Development Programme for England
Exploit Your Ideas
16. Innovation Advice and Guidance
17. Networking for Innovation
18. Innovation Vouchers
19. Designing Demand
20. Business Growth: Specialist Facilities and Environments
21. Collaborative R&D
22. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
23. Grant for Research and Development
Environment and Efficiency
24. Improving Your Resource Efficiency
25. Low Carbon Energy Demonstration
International Trade
26. Accessing International Markets
27. Developing Your International Trade Potential
28. Export Credit Insurance
29. Maximising Foreign Direct Investment