Growing your business

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Growing your business

Information about the growth support on offer for established, successful businesses with the vision and opportunity for significant further growth.

Our support

Elevate Growth

An exclusive and unique offer for successful applicants to gain high quality, specialist growth support to restart, reshape and grow their business taking it to the next level. The programme offers free consultancy and grant funding.  

The programme is for established SMEs in Worcestershire who have been operating successfully for a minimum of 3 years, with 5+ employees and have an ambitious mindset for further growth.

Elevate Growth programme is now fully allocated, to see how else we can support please email, ElevateWorcs@worcestershire.gov.uk.

Learn more about the Elevate Growth programme

Elevate Technology

Provides bespoke support to harness the power of digital tools and technology, to transform business operations and automate processes.

Elevate Technology is an ERDF business support programme aimed at growing SMEs within Worcestershire, who are looking to adopt and maximise digital tools and technologies which will in turn, support the future growth of their business.

The programme is an exclusive offer and successful applicants will receive a minimum of 12 hours of high quality, specialist business support from digital technology experts.

Elevate Technology programme is now fully allocated, to see how else we can support please email, ElevateTech@worcestershire.gov.uk.

Learn more about the Elevate Technology programme

Graduate Development Programme

Grant support up to £6,250 is on offer to Worcestershire SMEs to help part fund a new graduate position for recent local graduates.

The Graduate Development Programme aims to improve business productivity, enable knowledge and skills transfer and increase employment opportunities for graduates, and postgraduates, whilst retaining their talent for the benefit of the local economy. 

The grant on offer is provided over a 6 month period.

Find out more about the Graduate Development Programme

Other support available

Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme - Could your business benefit from a faster, more reliable broadband connection? Are you in an area without sufficient broadband infrastructure? Find out about how the voucher scheme can help fund a gigabit-capable connection to boost your business.

Worcester City Council – Business Growth Grant

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