Cumbria Business Growth Hub is looking to support potential/new exporters, scale up and established exports through our new Export Consultancy Service. 

Exporting is one way you can significantly grow your business and one many businesses fail to consider but we’re on hand to offer one to one expert, personalised and tailored support to help you start your export journey or grow your export sales.

The support service includes:

Potential and new exporters

• Diagnostic – are you ready / capable to export?
  • Have you got something you can export?
  • Which markets are of interest?
  • Routes to market / barriers to success
  • Initial export strategy
  • Diagnostic – where have the success and failures been
  • Markets of interest / opportunity
  • Routes to market / barriers
  • Export growth strategy
  • Diagnostic / problem solving

Scaling up exporter

Established exporter

We’ll also be offering sector specific support to food & drink businesses.

Additionally, you’ll be linked into:

• Our export documentation service, ensuring you have the correct documentation, simply and quickly

  • A range of useful resources including a series of podcasts with successful exporters 

  • A comprehensive range of export and import training which you can choose to attend in person or online

  • Wider relevant support and services, complementing the above

This will be a joined up, 360 and bespoke service with no limit on the number of hours available to you. It will be delivered through a mixture of online and in-person, with an initial conversation to discuss your needs and plan your package of support. 

Consultancy support will led by Martyn Staveley, who has over 15 years of International trade experience covering a wide range of sectors and geographies including:

• Preparing to export
• Researching markets of interest
• Establishing routes to market
• Identifying agents and partners
• Selecting and participating in events and trade shows
• Identifying competition and barriers to market entry
• Developing a market entry strategy

His sector experience covers Engineering, Consumer Products, Food and Drink and many others.

Companies Martyn has supported to date are thriving in new markets, increasing their turnover, profitability and market share. Take this opportunity to join them!

Martyn is being joined by Rodothea (Rose) Moraiti. Rose is a business development specialist with expertise in international market expansion, strategic consulting, and cross-cultural project management, particularly in the food and beverage industry. She helps organisations navigate global markets, connecting businesses, academic institutions, and government bodies to foster growth and innovation. She has held key roles at Grace Foods UK, where she drove international growth, and Kinetic Cubed, leading business development strategies, trade missions, and global partnerships across South Korea, Singapore, and Northern Europe. Her work has helped SMEs expand internationally and increase sales.

Charged at an hourly rate of £75 +VAT for potential/new exporters and £85 +VAT for scale up and established exporters you control the cost by setting your own hours and working directly with Martyn or Rose.

To express your interest email info@cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk including an outline of your export experience and journey to date.