Kick start your business in 2025 with two great programmes
In this, the University’s monthly Business Talks column, Professor Sarah Turnbull (Director of the Centre for Business) and Mark Cooper (Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education Partnerships) talk through their big plans to help Hampshire businesses in 2025, as well as sharing their festive good wishes to the local community
We love this time of year, as the city lights up with Christmas decorations and the smell of bratwurst and Glühwein wafts around Commercial road.
For many of us, it’s the busiest time of the year. But hopefully come Boxing Day, there will be a little time to take a breath and think about what 2025 might look like.
With that in mind, here are two initiatives designed to support and help your business in 2025.
Portsmouth Business Boost
The Portsmouth Business Boost is a new, dedicated, bespoke and free programme from Portsmouth City Council, delivered by the University of Portsmouth.
It is specifically created for newly established businesses, micro businesses and SMEs to improve productivity and support their business resilience and growth; providing key support to your business, leading to growth, and preparing you for successful application to other nationally funded programmes.
The Portsmouth Business Boost will give you access to:
● A high intensity workshop programme following a key topic/subject theme.
● Peer workshops to discuss aspects of the content relevant to the peer group and see how your business peers are seeking to action insights from the course
● Business mentoring to make the content precisely relevant to their individual business context and to work on specific business issues, leading to
● A personal action plan to make immediate positive improvements to your business
The programme will focus on the subject of ‘Business Growth and Resilience’, covering the following elements:
· Identifying ways to grow your business
· Identifying strategies to make your business resilient
· Understanding how your resources can be leveraged for business growth
· Consider how resources can be used to make your business more resilient
· Consider how Marketing can help your business grow
· Combining Finance and Marketing for growth
· Creating strategies for Sustainability
· Combining Resilience and Sustainability for growth
Our industry-practitioners will deliver the subject through a combination of workshop sessions and one-to-one mentoring.
Eligibility criteria
To join the Portsmouth Business Boost, a participating business must be: based in the Portsmouth City Council area (PO1 to PO6), a private sector organisation employing between 1 and 249 people, and not be a charity or a public sector organisation.
For more detail click here, or email to [email protected]
Portsmouth and South Coast Business week
The annual showcase and celebration of our business community will return on the 24th February 2025.
The last three years have welcomed over 3,000 business delegates to over 80 free events and Open Door sessions, and reached over 20,000 individuals through our Facebook Live videos. And this year promises to once again be a smorgasbord of free activity supporting and championing the region, designed by business for business.
The University is delighted to be partnering with the Hampshire Chamber of Commerce, local Businesses and Councils, and other Education providers to support this initiative.
Find out more at portsmouth.southcoastbusinessweek.co.uk