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Sefton MBC and Liverpool City Council have recently bid for funding from the Government’s Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI). The aim of the bid is to transform the deprived area straddling the North Liverpool and South Sefton border into a base for a new generation of entrepreneurs and successful, outward-looking businesses.Our organisation has recently agreed to join in partnership to deliver business support services across Merseyside with a number of other business advisers and has a strategy to deliver such services over at least the next 5 years to meet the requirements of the Northwest Development Agency.

As a result of creating this exciting new partnership our organisation now comprises 3 SFEDI accredited business advisers and 1 project manager with extensive experience in managing and delivering business support projects supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds in some of the most deprived wards in the UK. Our advisers have experience of working with ALL client groups including Women, BME, Disabled, young, old and ex offenders as well as the long term unemployed and those groups not deemed to be from disadvantaged backgrounds

The team have worked for and in partnership with a number of other business support organisations across the region providing business support to the target groups including Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and the Cheshire and Warrington areas with organisations including The Princes Trust, .New Entrepreneurs Scholarship programme, several Sirolli projects in Liverpool, Blue Orchid, The Design Initiative (Manchester and Liverpool), Business Link Northwest, Community Based Economic Development Agencies (CBED’s) in Liverpool (SMART, ELECT,, EDT, TREND, Train 2000, ), Reed Business Services, Asian Business Federation (Blackburn), Merseyside Chinese Business Association and creative industries support organisations including Creative Bias, ACME and Arts Council England.

As well as supporting mainstream businesses, our organisation supports Social Enterprise and we are incorporated as a Community Interest Company (CIC). Our advisers have extensive experience in working with a wide range of community organisations and socially motivated groups and all advisers are educated to Masters level and include MA’s in Social Enterprise.

Additionally, our team has experience of managing business incubation projects both bricks and mortar and virtual incubation programmes with local and International Universities.