Business Boost is a dedicated, bespoke and free programme from New Forest District Council, delivered by the University of Portsmouth. It is specifically created for businesses to improve productivity and support their business resilience and growth.
Business Boost will provide key support to your business, directly improving your productivity, leading to growth and preparing you for successful application to other nationally funded programmes.
Business Boost will give you access to:
A high intensity lecture/workshop programme following a key topic/subject theme.
Peer workshops to discuss aspects of the content relevant to the peer group and see how your business peers are seeking to action insights from the course
Business mentoring to make the content precisely relevant to their individual business context and to work on specific business issues, leading to
A personal action plan to make immediate positive improvements to your business
You will take part in 4 face-to-face learning sessions
Our industry expert will guide you through the programme
You will have 2 one-to-one mentoring sessions
Your mentor will help you apply the learning to your business
What you will learn
Business Boost will focus on the subject of ‘Business Growth and Resilience’, covering the following elements:
Identifying ways to grow your business
Identifying strategies to make your business
resilient
Understanding how your resources can be leveraged for business growth
Consider how resources can be used to make your business more resilient
Understanding how you can finance your business for growth
Consider how Marketing can help your business grow
Combining Finance and Marketing for growth
How to source finance
Using Social Media to grow your business
Resilient Business Models
Using Sustainability for growth
Combining Resilience and Sustainability
Increasing Resilience for growth
Creating strategies for Sustainability
Our industry-practitioners will deliver the subject through a combination of workshop sessions and one-to-one mentoring.
Eligibility criteria
To join the Business Boost New Forest, a participating business must
be a private sector Small or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) (including Community Interest Companies)
be based in the New Forest District Council area
employ between 1 and 249 people
have been operational for at least one year
not be a charity or a public sector organisation
Interested in taking part?
All of the spaces are now taken on our next programme, but if you would like your business to take part please email us at businesssupport@port.ac.uk to register your interest and we will let you know if any spaces become available.
There is no cost for participants to the New Forest Business Boost programme as it is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. More information can be found by clicking here.
For more information
Please contact the Business Support team at the University of Portsmouth by email: businesssupport@port.ac.uk