Advice and training

The Group provides a range of advice and training services across the UK to people, businesses, and public, private and third sector organisations.

Our teams support businesses from start-up to growth, through intensive one-to-one support, training workshops, and advice on entering new overseas markets.

We also provide a range of training courses to a wide variety of people, ranging from funding strategies and bid writing, to project management and how to do business in emerging markets.

In 2008-09 over 7,500 people and businesses benefited from the advice, mentoring, training and finance services provided by our combined teams, resulting in over 300 new businesses being created.