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Want to Grow Your Business or Build New Skills?
Our Solent Business Growth Service is here to help! Come and get fully-funded, tailored business support and skills programmes designed specifically for businesses on the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, and Southampton.
Take a look at our range of programmes, events, and initiatives to discover exciting opportunities to strengthen your business or develop your skills. Let’s work together to help you succeed!
The free face-to-face business clinics are for small, medium enterprises (SMEs) with a view to supporting them overcome challenges and boosting their growth.
A practical, step-by-step pathway supporting individuals and organisations to build confidence and capability in artificial intelligence.
Whether you’re looking for advice, funding opportunities, or ways to adapt and grow, we’re committed to helping high street businesses not just survive, but thrive.
Invest Solent brings together investors and ambitious businesses with one goal – helping great ideas secure the backing they need to grow.
Resources and tools you can use to advance your skills and support your business.
Our new Leadership Networks bring together senior leaders across the Solent to connect, share insight, and tackle real challenges in a trusted, focused environment.
Our range of Business MOTs are designed to help businesses to access expert support, focused on your biggest priorities.
Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks for adults aged 19 or over, primarily aimed at delivering training that is co-designed with employers to respond to skills shortages. At its heart, Skills Bootcamps are designed to support adults to retrain and upskill in local priority sectors, ultimately supporting economic growth in the Solent.
Start-Up Launchpad is here to help you turn your idea into a thriving, sustainable business. Whether you’re just about to launch or already trading and looking to grow, our programme is designed to give you the tools, confidence, and support you need to succeed.
Solent Connect is a collaborative initiative that brings together organisations providing business support across the Solent region.
A dedicated resource full of regional national tech/digital tools to help you, businesses and communities develop digital skills for now and the future. This page is full of interactive links and resources from our partners in the Solent but also across the UK.
