Are you considering equity funding to accelerate
your business growth?
Boost; Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub’s is
running Investment Academy 2, designed to help businesses better understand how
to secure equity investment
The academy is fully-funded and led by Boost’s
Access to Finance team in partnership with fhunded.
It will support an initial cohort of up to 20
Lancashire business leaders through four face-to-face sessions which will take
place in January and February.
The sessions will be led by Boost Access to
Finance’s experts as well as investment experts from across the public and
private sector in Lancashire and will cover key equity investment issues
including:
- Understanding the mechanics
of equity investment
- Developing an investment
proposition
- How to identify and pitch to
investors
- Legal, Intellectual Property
and HMRC initiatives of different forms of finance
- Mastering due diligence
The online event will give more details
about the programme as well as an overview of the funding landscape. This will
include:
- Different types of
investment and which businesses they are best suited to
- The support available in
Lancashire to find and secure funding
- The wider business support
landscape in Lancashire
The event will also give eligible businesses the
opportunity to then submit expressions of interest for the academy.
Click below to register for the event. Joining
details will be sent out ahead of the launch.
About Boost and Access to Finance
Boost is Lancashire’s Business Growth Hub, one of
37 Growth Hubs in the UK. Boost is led by Lancashire County Council and has
supported over 14,000 businesses, helped create over 3,500 jobs while adding
over £100m to the economy since 2013.
The Access to Finance service is for ambitious
businesses with desire to grow, invest, create jobs and or innovate and trade
internationally and includes a team of funding experts who can help businesses
find and secure external investment.
You can find out more about the Boost Access to
Finance service by visiting the Access
to Finance page of Boost’s website or by contacting Boost’s Business
Support Helpdesk on 0800 488 0057.
Eligibility
From September 1 2023, Boost is funded by
Lancashire County Council, the Department for Business & Trade (DBT), and
UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) allocations from ten Lancashire local
authorities.