The UK Business Climate Hub provides net zero advice for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK.
Pre-trade
Business resilience in challenging times
The South Central Cluster of Growth Hubs are holding a series of three 20-minute webinars to help businesses during these financially challenging times.
Skills for Life – upskilling your workforce
Find training and employment schemes for your business
Reading Internship Scheme
Does your organisation have a project that would be suitable for an intern to work on for a 4-8 week period? Then the Reading Internship Scheme could be for you.
Buying or selling a business
Review the key considerations when either buying or selling a business.
Write a business plan
A business plan is a written document that describes your business. It covers objectives, strategies, sales, marketing and financial forecasts.
It can also help to convince customers, suppliers and potential employees to support you.
Branding for your business
Consider 4 key questions to create a brand for your business.
Writing a marketing strategy
Consider the key steps for writing a marketing strategy to help drive your business performance.
Market research
It is important to establish who will buy your product before launching into the market. Undertake market research to help identify gaps in the market and business opportunities.
Selling to the public sector
Around £300 billion is spent on public sector procurement each year – is this a sales opportunity for your business?