Boost Scale to Thrive

Scale to Thrive is a dynamic programme from Boost; Lancashire's Business Growth Hub supporting businesses with scaleup aspirations in Lancashire.

There are currently over 800 scaleup businesses identified across Lancashire and this service will only be available to a select group.

Available exclusively to a limited number of businesses by application only, the Scale to Thrive service will help you gain a deeper understanding of the challenges facing your business and sector opportunities, helping you to create a detailed Scaleup Growth Strategy and Growth Action Plan with flexible support for your business to meet emerging scaling needs.

Your Scaleup Business Adviser will help you develop your business, so that it can achieve its full potential.

The service is being delivered by GC Business, whose team includes experienced business advisers who will deliver personalised support alongside access to peer-to-peer engagement through exclusive masterclasses and action learning sessions.

Summary

  • Start: 2024

  • Duration: Eight months

  • Participants: 20

  • Commitment: Masterclasses, peer networking, mentoring and other support

  • Price: Fully funded

  • Application deadline: December 31, 2024

Selection criteria

  • £1m annual turnover and/or 10 FTE staff

  • A history of expansion over the past three years or scaling 20% per year

  • Ambitious leadership with the drive to scale activities and push ahead on innovation, investment, and internationalisation

  • Forecast to grow turnover and/or employees 20% year-on-year for the next three years

  • Or be a startup showing rapid growth in the first year with future projections to scale

  • Based in and trading from one of Boost's 10 local authority partner districts: Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Pendle, Preston, South Ribble, West Lancashire and Wyre

What does the programme look like?

  • A dedicated Business scaleup adviser and mentor for the duration of the programme.

  • Become part of a cohort of business leaders that will benefit from action learning, a powerful technique to explore and reflect on opportunities and challenges through facilitated session as a group.

  • Group work will be strengthened through access to a series of masterclasses on key scaleup topics.

  • Community network events will help you create, connections, gain insights and find new opportunities for collaboration through our network of partners and successful scaleup leaders.

Programme features

  • Developing leadership capacity and capability

  • Developing talent and skills in the business

  • Accessing markets, including internationally

  • Accessing finance for growth

  • Dealing with infrastructure demands as the business changes

Visit the Scale to Thrive page on the Boost website to apply.

Find out more here.

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