NEEB Link 1:1
A focused 1-hour 1:1 session with a business growth expert from The Consortium (East) Ltd offers practical, tailored advice you can act on immediately.
ACL: Adult Learning Courses & Apprenticeships
ACL Essex is the largest provider of adult education in the county. Our aim is to provide learners with as many ways to flourish as possible, to be there in communities across Essex, to make a difference to residents and businesses, so they can make a difference for themselves and to the places that they live in.
Be The Business
Founded by Sir Charlie Mayfield, Be the Business is a UK-based not-for-profit movement dedicated to helping small and midsize businesses (SMEs) boost their productivity and performance.
British Business Bank
This is the main source of information on support for UK businesses.
British Chambers of Commerce
The British Chambers of Commerce sits at the heart of a unique network of businesses of all sizes across all sectors, within the UK and around the world.
Business Support UK Government
The UK Government’s central hub for business support, guidance, funding opportunities, and practical advice for starting, running, and growing a business.
Carbon Footprint Calculator
A Breath of Fresh Air for Carbon & Sustainability
Contract finder
Contracts Finder lets you search for information about contracts worth over £12,000 (including VAT) with the government and its agencies.
Enterprise Nation
Get the right support to start and grow your business
Federation of Small Businesses
We are the UK's leading membership organisation for small businesses and the self-employed, and this month, in association with HSBC UK, we're giving £10,000 to one lucky small business owner!
Find a tender
Find high value contracts in the public sector
Help to Grow: Management - UK
An intensive training programme that looks to boost SME performance and resilience by improving leadership and management skills.
Innovate UK
As the UK's innovation agency, we back the nation's most promising deep tech businesses in the UK’s priority sectors: providing the funding, expert support and connections that help them start, scale and stay in the UK. If you're an innovative business ready to scale, we're ready to back you.
Innovate UK Business Connect
Innovate UK Business Connect brings together businesses, researchers, investors and partners to support innovation across the UK. As a strategic delivery partner to Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), we connect organisations to funding opportunities, partnerships and expert support to help ideas move from concept to scale.
Jobs: Essex Opportunities
Providing the local community and businesses with information and advice on skills, careers, training
Made in Britain
Made in Britain are committed to helping the Great British trade market. As British tradesmen ourselves we have created this free logo to create a community who are proud to present their British made products to the rest of the world. This free to download logo will show your customers that you are honoured to be exporting from Britain. The Made in Britain logo is Britain’s mark of excellence; add it to your products today and join the rest of Great Britain in showing your loyalty to the British market. Find out why you should be using this free Made in Britain logo !
Made Smarter
Empowering UK Manufacturers to Adopt Digital Technology
NEEB
The North Essex Economic Board (NEEB) is a partnership of local authorities in the area working together as a catalyst to drive forward economic growth. Each has committed funding specifically to support local businesses with advice, guidance and training as well as skills programmes to boost the life chances of local residents and help them into work.
Samll Business Commissioner
Offers support and guidance to small businesses dealing with late payments and payment disputes.
ScaleUp Institute
Making the UK the best place in the world to scale up a business
Small Business Britain
Small Business Britain is the UK's leading champion of small businesses, supporting the UK's 5.7 million small businesses, no matter their location, their sector, or their ambition level.
SME Climate Hub
The SME Climate Hub is an initiative of the We Mean Business Coalition, the global nonprofit catalyzing business and policy action to halve global emissions by 2030. The initiative was co-founded and is operated in partnership with the Exponential Roadmap Initiative and the UN Climate Change High Level Champion’s Race to Zero campaign.
The Consortium (East) Ltd
The Consortium has been designing and delivering award-winning business support programmes across the East of England since 2017.
The Growth Company
Growth Hubs help businesses and entrepreneurs unlock their potential by providing access to tailored business advice, online resources and routes to funding. Whatever the stage of your business journey, be it the spark of entrepreneurism or ambitions to scale internationally, your local Growth Hub, provides access to expert guidance, enabling you to seize new opportunities and overcome any barriers to growth.