CHAMBER NEWS A year of growth for UpScaler Project


The D2N2 UpScaler project, aimed exclusively at high growth businesses, has achieved excellent feedback from its client base with over 91% of enrolled members who attended the first series of workshops saying that they left with new ideas to implement into their business. UpScaler is delivered as a


partnership between the Chamber


and Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University, and is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. UpScaler has been supporting scaling small and medium sized businesses for nearly a year and has just welcomed its 100th member. As part of the support on offer, clients are provided with a diagnostic review from specialist


business advisers, leading to a series of tailored support which includes participation in a series of strategic leader workshops, access to coaching grants, a pool of experienced high growth business coaches, and high-energy, monthly peer-to-peer forums. The project’s strategic leader


workshops have covered a range of topics crucial to the high growth business cohort such as: creating a growth roadmap; developing your leadership team; strategic marketing and financial management. These workshops are full-day sessions, delivered by experienced facilitators, aimed at providing delegates with tangible, working action points that they can execute in their own businesses.


In contrast, the forums are half-


day sessions that allow delegates to explore challenging topics and learn from and network with like-minded peers. Forthcoming UpScaler Forums include topics such as: Understanding your Customers’ Needs; Bid Writing for Public Contracts; Finance for Growth and


Improving Business Sustainability. One participant, Turner & Co,


commented: “Directors didn’t see the value of schemes like UpScaler until a forum meeting where our director Caroline felt as if the speaker was ‘speaking directly to me’.”


For more information on how you can join the UpScaler project call 0333 006 9178 or email info@d2n2growthhub.co.uk


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