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Digital Boost free 1:1 mentoring

Digital Boost is a free programme of one-to-one mentoring sessions with volunteer mentors for business owners and people starting a business in the United Kingdom. Open, no fixed deadline.

Run by Digital Boost

Checked against the official page (app.digitalboost.org.uk) on 15 Oct 2026.

Free one-to-one guidance and mentoring sessions with volunteer mentors for people starting or running a business, covering topics from strategy to marketing, tech and finance.

Apply or find out more Official page

These details are gathered from public web pages and are not financial advice. Check them with Digital Boost before you apply.

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Status and deadline

Status

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Open all year

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Free. No limit on the number of sessions and no cost.

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Business owners and aspiring business owners can request free 1:1 mentoring sessions with volunteer mentors.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Start-ups, Sole traders, Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Not confirmed on the official page

Could your business apply?

Tell us about your business and an AI will compare it with this scheme's rules: what fits, what doesn't and what to check with Digital Boost. It takes a few seconds.

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How to apply

Choose a topic, sign up and make a request on the Digital Boost mentor selection page, then share your availability.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Not confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

Things we could not confirm

  • Area not stated on the page; areas set to UK on the basis that the page does not limit it to a place.
  • Sessions are 60-minute virtual sessions via video link.

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About Digital Boost

Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (app.digitalboost.org.uk) on 15 Oct 2026. Its details have not changed since it was listed on 15 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Digital Boost before you apply.

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