A Business Plan for Funding

Event Information

A Business Plan for Funding

Tuesday 24th January 2023 - 2pm to 3.30pm

IMPORTANT - Please read before booking : Am I eligible?

The workshop is available to businesses, partnerships, sole traders, and registered charities, with a trading address located within Greater Lincolnshire (North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire & Lincolnshire).

To attend, your business must complete an SME enrolment form in order to check the business’s eligibility against the funding criteria. (The form will be sent to you on completion of an Eventbrite booking - if one has not already been completed and on file).

Please note that attendance at Business Lincolnshire events will not preclude eligibility to access grant funding.

About the Workshop

In this workshop you will learn what should, and what shouldn’t, be in a Business Plan to be used to support funding applications – whether for grants, bank loans, business angels or crowd funding. You will understand what the key elements that your audience will be looking at, and learn how to present these in the best light.

We'll discuss the following:

• What level of detail do you need in your Business Plan when seeking funding?
• What financials should you include?
• Are your plans different for different types of funding (eg. Grant, debt, equity)?
• What’s the difference between a Business Plan, Executive Summary and Pitch Deck? How much detail should you go into?
• If you need, or are going to need, additional funding in your business then come along and learn what your plans or applications must cover, and how they should cover it.

About the presenter – Russell Copley

Russell has over 25 years experience helping small and medium businesses to secure investment and grow. He has also founded a number of his own businesses (including starting a new venture during lockdown) and invested in several others.

In the last 3 years alone, Russell and his team have:

- Helped over 150 Lincolnshire SMEs to access grants, loans, investment and funding advice

- Delivered 16 workshops and seminars to help businesses become “investment ready”

- Directly helped small businesses raise over £3.5m investment from grants, small business loans and business angel investors;

- Supported a well-known local brand to pitch on TV’s Dragons Den programme.

On behalf of Lincolnshire, Russell chairs the Regional Advisory Board of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund, and so is well connected into a range of business finance sources.

Secure your place

The workshop is fully funded and places are limited so be sure to apply for yours today. Confirmation of your place will be sent separately once your eligibility has been checked post receiving your registration.

Please note we are only able to offer one place per company to ensure we can support as many businesses as possible. To qualify for this funded support, your business must be a small to medium enterprise (SME) based in Greater Lincolnshire. Apologies, no support intermediaries, public bodies or financial sector businesses.

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Sign up for the online workshop here