OUR PROGRAMMES

BUILD YOUR BUSINESS

Building your own business can be a very rewarding experience. The steps to starting up depend on how you arrived at this point, but for most the path will include…

  • Fully exploring your business idea.
  • Connecting with other entrepreneurs doing similar work.
  • Finding clarity on what it will involve.
Build Your business
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Our impact so far

Wherever you are in your entrepreneurial journey you are welcome to book a discussion with our enterprise coaching programme, Build Your Business.

Number of businesses supported: 10
Number of businesses supported: 5

Criteria

For the social enterprise ecosystem and the community and voluntary sectors, we know this will be a vital development.

On this page you can follow our participation in the Local Access Programme, learn about the composition of the team and partner organisations, download and read our publications, gain an understanding of the timeline of events and get in touch for further information.

What you receive

Diagnostics & Development Plan

A diagnostic of your business, and help with validating and testing your ideas and markets.

Financial Advice

Our tried-and-tested tools and templates for business planning, cash flow forecasting and marketing plans. Help with finding investment.

Signposting

Help finding additional support from other organisations.

 

Expert-Led Mentoring

One-to-one specialist support and coaching, delivered by business experts to shape the business model that works for you.

Impact Hub Bradford CIC

Key Fund

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Inspired Neighbourhoods

Airedale Enterprises
District Representation

Publications

Our journey through the Local Access Partnership has been marked by the publication of several proposals which summarise our thinking at various stages of progress. These publications are available to read or download by following the links below.

Bradford District, A Lab for Social Innovation
(Concept Note, April 2019 – Dropbox, Issuu)

Bradford Social Innovation Lab - Proposal (December 2019)

Bradford Social Innovation Lab
(Proposal, December 2019 – Dropbox, Issuu)

Team

The Local Access Programme required candidate cities to be sector-led, as such we convened a partnership which led the development of Bradford’s application and candidacy. Our cross-organisational team consisted of…

Kamran RashidCEO
Impact Hub Bradford CIC

Nasim Qureshi
Inspired Neighbourhoods CIC

Phil Witcherley
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Dave Thornett
Key Fund

Kate Hainsworth
Leeds Community Foundation

Shirley Congdon
University of Bradford

Hugh Rolo
Locality

Julia Brannigan
PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Wendy Spencer
Airedale Enterprise Services

Steph Taylor

Steph Taylor
Leeds Community Foundation

Ian Westlake
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

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Who we're supporting

Raja Ali

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Ritu Dagar

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Kayle McCoy

Provides training and apprenticeship opportunities for disadvantaged people. They only work with BAME-led supply chains.

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Get in touch

If you’d like to talk more about Build Your Businessdrop us a line… we’ll just need your name and email address to get back in touch. We won’t share your information with anyone else and if you’d prefer us to delete it after use, just let us know.

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