To date 120,000 unique users are benefiting from the Growth Hub’s interactive portal, a doorway to a huge range of information and business support.

The portal offers a great range information on starting up, marketing, sales, productivity, product development, exporting, acquisitions, finance, sustainability, employing staff and more. Content and downloads are supplemented by tools, videos, online seminars and training.

Specialist sections include:

• Exporting
• Supply Chain Gateway
• Business Support
• Business Start-Up
• Skills & Training

There are listings of the range of support and funding available – delivered directly by the Growth Hub and other sources – highlighting what is on offer and how to access it.

Online Forums

Online forums offer opportunities to interact and exchange ideas. Anyone offering business events can promote them through the events calendar, which lists workshops, seminars and networking events.

Webinars

Businesses have recognised its worth and embraced it. The portal now has an impressive 120,000 unique users.

Hundreds of businesses have already benefited from training online webinars. The pilot alone delivered over 1,000 hours of training over four evenings on topics such as Facebook and Twitter for business, email marketing and WordPress.