Lancashire’s private sector business support organisations are being offered the opportunity of working with Boost; Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub to deliver its new programme of business support between September 2023 and March 2025.
Boost’s new programme will be funded by Lancashire County Council, along with 10 of Lancashire’s 14 local authority district councils, who have each committed a proportion of their UK Shared Prosperity Fund allocation.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is part of the government’s Levelling Up agenda and a succession to EU structural funds. A total of £2.9m has been committed to Boost’s new programme and Boost is now seeking private sector delivery partners to deliver its business support. Organisations can apply for five lots which relate to different areas of its business support offer.
Andrew Leeming, programme manager, Boost, said: “The end of EU support gives the Lancashire business support community a unique opportunity to adapt to the changing needs of businesses and ensure that the public and private sectors work together to give businesses the best support possible.
“Lancashire has a diverse business support community and all sizes and types of business can receive support through Boost. The contracts that are available as part of this new programme of support reflect this. “We want to work with organisations including those who may not have worked with Boost before and we are encouraging organisations to collaborate on joint bids where this will benefit the Lancashire business community.
If you believe you can help us support the county’s businesses by working directly through Boost, please apply.” The lots relate to four key areas of business support which Boost plans to deliver: Boost Gateway and Business Advice Service; Flying Start; Growth Catalyst and Scale to Thrive.
These will be supported by a marketing partner to deliver Boost’s Central Marketing.
The tender opportunities to work with Lancashire County Council to deliver the new Boost contract are available here. The submission deadline is July 27 at 10am.
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