Thinking of starting your own business? Or recently started and need to check your business foundations and get ready for growth? You are in good company, let us help you to succeed!
This support will be engaging and fun, and it is proven to work: nearly 100 people joined our SPARK programme in 2024/25 and at least 50 of them are now running their own ambitious businesses.
Eligibility: You must live in, or have a premises in Cherwell District or West Oxfordshire District to join this support.
Overview
This first workshop in the West Oxfordshire & Cherwell Business SPARK programme is designed to encourage you to focus on the fundamentals of a successful business and develop a viable, successful and sustainable business plan.
The workshop will be delivered by one of our experienced business experts, providing practical content to help you learn and make progress on the day, alongside a group of supportive peers.
Learning Objectives
- Developing critical thinking skills
- Developing a collaborative mindset
- Developing creativity
- Developing understanding of why businesses succeed or fail
You will finish the day with a clear plan on how to move your business forward and reach your next milestone.
Your Expert
Ant Parsons - business and environmental innovator, who uses his creative leadership to help organisations think differently about problems and opportunities.
Ant has started five of his own businesses in the last 15 years, but has focussed it down to one now. He facilitates a wide range of business support groups and has worked with hundreds of businesses in the last 6 years. He also works on a broad range of projects across the research, technology, business and impact landscape in the UK and overseas.
Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) scheme
The Growth Hub programme operates a Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) scheme. All SMEs which receive support under this programme are being aided under the UK Subsidy Control Act (2022) and The Subsidy Control (Gross Cash Amount and Gross Cash Equivalent) Regulations (2022 No. 1186).
MFA allows a beneficiary to receive up to £315,000 of Subsidy over a three-fiscal year period (i.e. the current and previous two fiscal years). The value of MFA given is the gross cash amount or the gross cash equivalent of the subsidy. The MFA value of this webinar is £723.40. Please note this only applies to registered companies / sole traders.
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