Lancashire Boost Business Owner Networks 2023

Delivered by Scale-Ability
“Building business resilience through stronger financial acumen.”

Why get involved with Business Owners Networks?

This is a fully-funded opportunity, for Business owners and their managers, with already proven success.

Here are several reasons why:

  • strengthen your financial acumen
  • build business resilience
  • boost your organisation’s performance
  • grow and develop your business for future success
  • widen your networks and trusted sources
  • help to strengthen local and regional business
  • make connections that go far beyond networking

How Peer Networks delivered by Scale-Ability in 2023 will work:

Boost Business Owners Networks is a Regional peer-to-peer learning and network programme delivered in Lancashire. We bring together diverse cohort groups of individuals to collaboratively work through common business issues. Through interactive action learning, we enable you to discuss your own challenges, gain and reflect on valuable feedback and implement practical solutions to overcome them.

Through our extensive network of clients, associates and other business leaders, we have listened to their concerns and perceived challenges going into turbulent economic conditions. 

As a result, we have teamed up with another Boost & Co supporter, Chris Brown of Brown & Co Chartered Accountants to deliver a programme with “Finance for Non-Finance Manager” theme.

Knowing our numbers and being able to get a real handle on our business finances builds confidence in making important decisions about growth and investment in the future. 

In the current climate, and being able to confidently grow a business, capitalise on opportunities and develop a team means that confidence in the numbers is more important than ever. 

Here’s what we will cover during the programme:

  • Growth planning in challenging times
  • The financial fundamentals: Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet
  •  Digital tools for finance – making your life easier
  • Funding – types of funding available, meeting lender requirements
  • Growth – how to budget and forecast
  • Monitoring – which KPI’s to work with
Complete our Expression of Interest Form
  • our programme begins in Feb 2023 and finishes by the end of June 2023
  • there are eight 2 or 3 hour group sessions
  • you will benefit from 3.5 hours of 1-2-1 coaching
  • first and last meetings are face-to-face and then online
  • onboarding processes assess current situation and experience
  • self-reflection tools available
  • 1-2-1 coaching, session feed-back reports and online software evaluates journey, distance travelled and outcomes
  • learning tools available through an online client portal
  • we use a unique values-based profiling tool which will help you understand how to make the most of what you learn from your peers and facilitators on the programme. 

    Our participants told us that some key outcomes were:

  • changed mind-set
  • improved clarity on growth plans
  • decisions made and actioned
  • new staff recruited and recruitment processes started
  • new products and services launched

How your business can be part of the next phase of Lancashire Peer Networks,
now called Boost Business Owners Networks delivered by Scale-Ability

There’s such a positive buzz around this programme, we’d love to tell you more, so please get in touch by completing our Expression of Interest form as soon as possible.

If your business is an SME based in Lancashire and has:

    • an aspiration to grow and improve
    • operated for at least one year
    • has 2 or more employees – including business leader/s (full or part-time)

    • a turnover of at least £100,000

then your business is eligible to apply for the fully-funded Business Owners Network and the programme delivered by Scale-Ability.

Complete our Expression of Interest Form

Join the Peer Learning Network revolution

Over 500 businesses benefited from the pilot and follow-on Lancashire peer network programmes. 

In our experience, and from their feedback, every one of the business leaders involved in our programme said that the time spent was beneficial. 

We feel passionately about the power of peer learning and this is the reason we are so heavily involved.

Join us on the next stage of the Peer Network journey and find out for yourself how this could impact on your business. 

How Scale-Ability’s support for the first 2 years of Peer Networks programme delivered real results:

In 2020, Boost, Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub, appointed Scale-Ability as delivery partner for Peer Networks, a government-funded, national business support programme for Lancashire businesses.

This pilot scheme ran from October 2020 to March 2021 and was designed for SME leaders who wanted to improve their business resilience and to reach their goals and address key challenges by working with likeminded leaders.

In 2021, we successfully bid to deliver a further two cohorts of Peer Networks Phase 2, along with a cohort in Cumbria. 

We successfully delivered a programme supporting over 50 businesses from more than 15 different sectors, through a series of high impact group sessions, with each cohort led by an expert facilitator from the Scale-Ability team and our trusted, skilled Associates.

As well as thinking innovatively about growth, working collaboratively with peers on current challenges, and investing time in developing and engaging teams and leaders to build a stronger business, each business leader also benefited from one-to-one coaching so that ideas from group sessions could be developed and put into action.

The benefits – more from past Peer Networks participants:

“I think PNP programmes naturally inspire businesses to grow and solve issues that could improve their business. One of the highlights for me of being involved was the openness of our group and sharing, not “telling” people the answers but more discussing experiences and opinions.”
Rob EllisManaging Director, Two Stories
“Working in a small business can be quite isolating. Our business has benefited as I have effectively had coaching/mentoring from not just one mentor but a group of eight! This means I have learnt to view frustrations/opportunities/ideas from many perspectives and not just my own. This results in much clearer and focussed thinking and planning.”
James WilkinsonManager, Printing Plus
“Peer networking was a great sounding board and an opportunity to give back, looking at the value each peer group member could bring to the table, helping people get access to a new job and making referrals. I walked in unclear about where I was heading with one business and walked out with ideas for taking forward four businesses.”
Melanie McKayexperienced Head of E-Commerce, NW England
“Being part of Peer Networks helped me build confidence and learn. It helped to grow a partnership network which helps local business. I used to think I was the only one experiencing some of the challenges I was facing but sharing means you realise that these are common experiences. It was great to discuss in an honest and open forum, to exchange ideas and to work on developing my business rather than being busy and in the middle of it.”
Dan HurtleyManaging Director Dan Hurtley Ltd, Creating Fine Interiors
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We were delighted with feedback from the past 2 phases of Peer Networks cohorts…

And that’s why we’re thrilled to have been selected again by Boost to deliver
Business Owner Networks in Lancashire in 2023.

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