High performing business support programme, Business Northumberland, still delivering

Northumberland based business support programme, Business Northumberland, is ringing in the New Year with celebrations of achieving nearly 100 jobs created, 500 events and 5,000 hours of support delivered to SMEs across the North East since 2019

Business Northumberland has supported businesses across the region to help develop their digital skills with a winning combination of digitally focused workshops, growth coaching, dedicated Business Advisers and digital audits for businesses.

Business Northumberland provides support to small and medium enterprises across the North East who are looking to sustain and grow their business online. The fully funded support programme is funded by the European Regional Development Fund and Advance Northumberland, so there is no cost to eligible businesses when accessing the support.

After a successful 3 years and over 1,000 small to medium sized businesses registered to the programme, the team are looking forward to a busy few months to take the programme up to its closing in June 2023.

Lucy Evermore programme manager for Business Northumberland says “The team have been working really hard to support businesses. Working closely with the business community has allowed us to continue to shape the programme to ensure the support we offer is relevant to the businesses to support with their growth.

These numbers are fantastic for the programme and having the opportunity to work with the amazing businesses across the county make the teams and I jobs even better! I urge any business needing support with digital skills to get in touch as we are heading into our final 6 months

Businesses who have accessed the free support have praised the support describing it as being the “the most useful business support we have received for a long time”.

The team are bringing brand new workshops to businesses in 2023, including accessibility workshops, GA4 workshops (the new iteration of Google Analytics) as well as brand new networking events across the Northumberland including new events in Ponteland.

By Mark Adair – Correspondent, Bdaily