Business Lincolnshire Start Up Academy

What is the Business Support?

Added 31/03/2025

The Start Up Academy provides workshops for individuals considering setting up in business and advice & mentoring for early staged businesses by a professional Business Start Up Adviser.

Restrictions

Aimed at pre-starts and businesses trading less than 12 months based in Greater Lincolnshire. 

What could it do for your company?

The transition from business idea to registering your business and then early stages of running your own business can be a scary proposition. What could improve this? How about the advice of an impartial, experienced business person? Someone to act as a sounding board, providing focused and objective assistance. Our professional Start-up Business Advisers provide advice to support new and early-stage businesses as well as individuals considering self-employment. 

What can a business expect by working with a Start-up Business Adviser?

A Start-up Business Adviser has a genuine interest in supporting pre-starts and early-stage businesses and the ability to use their own experiences across a range of specialisms.
They possess an in-depth knowledge of the business support landscape and the ability to
advise individuals and businesses on the range of options as well as having excellent mentoring and coaching skills.

Support includes:

• Start-up business plan creation and financial forecasting to assess viability
• Support to access finance in the forms of grants, loans and investment
• Offering mentoring and coaching to help a business start, survive, adapt to changing environments
• Providing support on business strategy to aid growth
• Giving advice on business improvement techniques
• Advice on digital adoption/marketing
• Introducing businesses to networks and associates
• Supporting businesses to reduce their energy use and carbon footprint

Some clients working with an Adviser may also qualify for a £500 grant to help set up the business. The grant is subject to eligibility criteria and requires at least £500 match funding. It can only be accessed by businesses working with an Adviser.

Who runs it?

NBV Enterprise Solutions on behalf of Business Lincolnshire and Efactor Ltd in NELincs

How to find out more?

Contact NBV on 0844 887 2568 or email enquiries@nbv.co.uk

If you are based in North East Lincolnshire contact the eFactor start up academy - E-Factor Business Start-Up Academy - E-Factor,  info@e-factor.co.uk, 01472 252780