Open to businesses in North Lincolnshire, including schemes for the wider region and the whole country.
North Lincolnshire's page: people to ring, events nearby and what is only for North Lincolnshire
Open to businesses across England or the UK, including North Lincolnshire.
UK Finance
An online gateway that lets growing businesses search a list of verified business mentoring organisations in their area. Aimed at growing businesses seeking guidance from experienced business professionals.
Broadway Initiative
A free online hub providing sustainability advice for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with success stories from other businesses.
FutureDotNow
A free online tool that gives organisations a personalised digital and AI readiness report on their workforce. Aimed at employers building workforce digital skills.
NatWest
A free set of advice, articles, lessons, toolkits, smart tools and training for business owners, from idea stage to growth. Users can go at their own pace.
Enterprise Nation
Free digital skills training for small businesses, including online workshops, regional bootcamps, expert blogs and videos, a podcast and free digital marketing templates. Delivered as a joint initiative with Vodafone Business.
Office of the Small Business Commissioner
Free, confidential help for small UK businesses with an unresolved payment dispute with a larger customer, including unpaid invoices and non-payment queries.
Google
Free online AI courses, badges and job-ready career certificates from Google to help individuals and small businesses build digital and AI skills. Some courses are paid through Coursera.
Digital Boost
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.
Amazon
A suite of free-to-use online courses and videos on topics such as building a business online, growing sales and social media, for startups, entrepreneurs and small or medium-sized businesses.
Make UK
Membership of Make UK, a manufacturing business network, offering networking, advisory boards, briefings and access to a member-only portal. Tiers are Essentials, Enhanced and Add-ons.
TCoE
Membership of the TCoE, a not for profit, industry owned training company for textile manufacturers and associate companies with an interest in the sector, giving discounted services, grant support, and access to the manufacturing supply chain.
RISE
RISE Direct is a support service for organisations in the retrofit supply chain. After a self-assessment, businesses are matched with a RISE Direct Support Manager who provides a tailored support plan on retrofit readiness, procurement routes, partnerships and training.
Enterprise Nation
Free membership offering business support, events, learning resources, networking and connections for small business founders and owners across the UK. Also promotes the NatWest Accelerator, Powering Local Businesses grants, Google Digital Garage workshops and Supply Connect.
Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
The UK government's Business Growth Service gives free, impartial advice, expert-led training through the Business Academy, and personalised guides to one-to-one support, opportunities and funding, through Business.gov.uk and a network of partner organisations.
HSBC UK
A free programme of training, events, insights and AI support designed to help small businesses grow and build resilience. It is open to all and run by HSBC UK.
A police-led, not-for-profit organisation that helps businesses protect themselves from cybercrime through free and paid memberships, offering practical cyber security advice, tools, resources and resilience services.
British Library, Business & IP Centre (British Library)
Free business support, workshops, one-to-one advice and business and IP information at the British Library and over 70 libraries across the UK, for people starting, running or growing a business.
Police CyberAlarm
A free, Home Office-funded, policing-led cyber security service that scans websites and internet-facing systems for known weaknesses and monitors suspicious activity, with an optional Secure Sensor. Offered to organisations of all sizes.
Health Innovation Network
Support from the Health Innovation Network for innovators in health and care, including healthtech companies and NHS clinicians with new ideas, covering early-stage guidance, prototyping, evidence, market access and adoption.
CPI, Centre for Process Innovation
Access to CPI's multidisciplinary experts, specialist innovation facilities for R&D, process development and scale-up work, with customised flexible project options, to help defer capital and workforce investment until a product or process is proven at scale.
UK Government
Free online courses in digital, numeracy and soft skills, which employers can share with staff to upskill them. Aimed at people learning new skills or seeking work, and at employers.
Confederation of British Industry
Paid membership of the CBI giving businesses access to policy influence, practical guidance and evidence-led analysis, and peer networks and events.
NatWest
A free accelerator programme from NatWest with one-to-one coaching, peer networks, expert support and co-working space access, for businesses with ambitions to expand. Open to all business owners, not only NatWest customers.
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas)
Impartial advice, guidance, training and conciliation for employers and employees on workplace issues such as redundancy, pay, contracts and dismissals.