Positive Pathways
Positive Pathways is a business start-up and employability skills programme specifically designed to support refugees and their starting business ambitions run by Polly Hargreaves.
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Start-Up Membership
Our Start-Up Chamber Membership is tailored to businesses who have been trading for less than year.
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The Kickstart Scheme
As part of the Chancellor’s Plan for Jobs in response to increasing job insecurity and the climbing rates of unemployment, the £2billion Kickstart Scheme is underway helping people get back into work.
Young people have been one of the demographics hit hardest by the Coronavirus, with around 8,500 young people in Staffordshire currently on Universal Credit.
If you can offer new, 6-month placements to help young people aged 16-24 develop new skills and experience, the Government will cover 100 percent of employment costs.
Employers will be paid the National Minimum Wage for 25 hours of work per week, plus National Insurance and Auto Enrolment Pension contributions. There is also a £1,500 grant per placement to help with set up and providing training to your placement.
Open to any size business, this is your opportunity to identify talent and work with them at no cost to your business!
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Start-up Loan
A Start Up Loan is a government-backed personal loan available to individuals looking to start or grow a business in the UK. In addition to finance, successful applicants receive 12-months of free mentoring and exclusive business offers to help them succeed. The loan is unsecured, so there’s no need to put forward any assets or guarantors to support an application. All owners or partners in a business can individually apply for up to £25,000 each, with a maximum of £100,000 available per business.
For more information please call 01782 202222 or click the banner below.
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Insight 6
Keep in touch with your employee and customer satisfaction using business tools from Insight6.
The Team Safety and Customer Confidence Portal is an exclusive Chamber member benefit. This online survey tool gives you instant access to know how safe your employees feel at work and how confident your customers are in interacting with your premises or representatives safely. Developed to scale for businesses in any size or sector, the Team Safety and Customer Confidence Portal instantly notifies a designed member of your management team if a colleague or customer has concerns about their health and safety in the workplace.
Insight6 are customer experience specialists, providing support in customer journeys, mystery shopping, online feedback and more. Using their knowledge, they have developed the Team Safety and Customer Confidence Portal to respond to the challenging business and social environment currently facing our members in Staffordshire and beyond.
Have confidence in your ability to provide an environment that makes your employees and customers feel safe with the real-time surveys and feedback of the Insight6 business tools. Your Insight6 portal can be up and running within 48 hours, and you’ll receive full implementation training and ongoing support during your license period.
Email info@staffordshirechambers.co.uk to submit your details and access exclusive pricing for Chamber members.
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Start-up Programme
All the advice and practical help you need to start a business is available for free with our team of business start-up advisers. The service takes you through business planning, cash forecasting, marketing and market research, legal and financial requirements.
There is ongoing help and mentoring available as your business grows and you expand and employ staff. There are also discounted membership deals for new start-up businesses.
Call 01782 202222 to speak to an advisor, or email start@staffordshirechambers.co.uk
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Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Growth Hub
A free diagnostic service covering all aspects of your business whatever stage you are at.
The Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Growth Hub encourages different business support partners to work together to ensure that they put the needs of the client business first. As part of the Growth Hub service, experts from the Chamber are available to provide face-to-face advice to local businesses and to signpost them to specialised support such as HR, finance and funding, marketing, growth and starting a business.
As part of the Growth Hub service, experts from the Chamber are available to provide face-to-face advice to local businesses and to signpost them to specialised support such as HR, finance and funding, marketing, growth and starting a business.
Call 0300 111 8002 or visit www.stokestaffsgrowthhub.co.uk
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