Presentation by Janice Mears, Commercial Broker

1. LOCAL
GROWTH HUB

2. COLLABORATION

3. VALUES
Business
The Local Growth Hub makes it simple for businesses in the
Liverpool City Region to discover the advice and support they need
to flourish.
Advisors
The Local Growth Hub opens up opportunities for advisers by
providing a route in to businesses that have an identified need for
business support and advice
Brokers
The Local Growth Hub creates a joined up approach to business
support that actively engages companies and connects them with
support organisations across the City Region

4. LOCAL GROWTH HUB
Benefits for Business
• Simplifies the business support
landscape
• A single point online access to business
support
• Online or Face to Face support from a
Broker
• Helps business identify needs and
opportunities
• Helps business navigate to the right
commercial advice and/or support
programmes
• Helps business to identify suppliers to
meet tender requirements
• Source of information, events, property
etc
• Helps business to become ….

5. LOCAL GROWTH HUB
Benefits for Advisers
• Source of businesses looking for
and advice
• Filtering of businesses towards the most
appropriate support for their business
needs
• Single online platform to set out client
service offering and advisor profiles
• Online marketing tool to sell knowledge
and expertise
• Site to list your events, blogs and news
for business
• Opportunity to respond to tenders
“Lead Generation at No Cost”

6. HOW IT
WORKS

8. One year on ….
• 6000 Business enquiries handled
• 4000 brokerages into business support programmes
• 200 tenders promoted
• 4000 engagements with SMEs
• 50 partners across 14 LCR funded programmes
• 850 jobs created through LCR funding programmes
supported by the Local Growth Hub

9. Promoting LCR Support Programmes

10. TALKING TO BUSINESSES

11. COLLAORATIVE EVENTS PROGRAMME

12. Exciting times ahead
2018 and beyond

13. BUILDING ON FOUNDATIONS
– 12 months of comms activity to use to shape the strategy
– Brokers are more engaged
– Growing business database to engage with
– Advisors need to see more value of the platform
– The website user journey needs further work and can be
shaped from feedback received
– More LCR programmes are launching
– Communications need to be ‘integrated’ internally and at
board level
– Work with DCLG and all ERDF funding programmes to capture
business support activity through Evolutive
SETTING THE STRATEGY UP FOR SUCCESS

14. TOGETHER
FORBUSINESS
www.localgrowthhub.com
Email: localgrowthhub@liverpoollep.org
Twitter: @localgrowthhub
LinkedIn: Local Growth Hub
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