1. Local Growth Hub Lisa Ashby-Dowling Commercial Broker
Liverpool City Region LEP

2. Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership
Introduced 2011, Coalition Government
38 LEPs
A business-led, strategic partnership responsible for driving economic growth in the area.
Bring together businesses and civic leaders to drive private-sector led growth and job creation.
Working with the City Region’s Combined Authority
Growth Strategy: Building our Future
Skills for Growth Agreements (E&ST)
The Local Growth Hub

3. Partnership

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 funded support programmes
Helps business to identify suppliers to meet tender requirements
Source of information, events, property etc
Helps business to become ….
“Better Informed Consumers”

5. LOCAL GROWTH HUB
Benefits for Advisers
Source of businesses looking for support 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. 20 LCR Business Support Programmes

7. Access to Finance

8. TWO YEARS ON…. 9000 Business enquiries handled
8000 brokerages into business support programmes
200 + tenders promoted
6000 engagements with SMEs
50+ partners across 20 LCR funded programmes

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