Calling Small Businesses Across Northern Ireland
A small business programme personalised for local businesses from Belcoo to Ballycastle, Limavady to Lisburn to help them recover, rebuild & rebound from post-Covid challenges.
This project is fully funded by the UK Government through the UK Community Renewal Fund.
The UK Community Renewal Fund is a UK Government programme for 2021/22. This aims to support people and communities most in need across the UK to pilot programmes and new approaches to prepare for the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. It invests in skills, community and place, local business, and supporting people into employment. For more information, visit Click here
The Voice For Locals In Northern Ireland
Aligned with the 10X economy vision
Voice for Locals is a wholly funded UK government initiative. The Voice for Locals initiative aligns with the principles of innovation, inclusion and sustainability laid out in the 10X economic vision by the Department for The Economy in Northern Ireland. Innovation introduced through this initiative will empower small businesses to make specific process improvements supported by data collected from use of emerging technology tools and skills offered to them. These tools & skills are complemented with timely personalised business & technical advice to improve ways of working & flexible delivery.
DigitALL Inclusion
Whether the local businesses serve the retail or service sector, serve in-store or online/on-site, are based in urban or rural or coastal areas, are digitally savvy or technologically excluded, this programme will drive adoption of digital tools built with emerging technologies to boost local business management & growth in clicks.
BigData For Small Businesses
Empowering local businesses to collect specific data about their business, customers & their own experience is the key towards profitability. Post-Covid, this programme will ensure local businesses collect & analyse their customer expectations & experiences in real time highlighting possible gaps in skills, attitudes, infrastructure, health & safety and resourcing.
Process Improvement
Sticking to old processes on the basis of ‘that’s because it’s always been done this way’ will impact on the growth & long-term survival of small businesses. Equally so, the mentality of ‘it worked for them, so it should work for us’ is dominant. Our initiative will help you to collect & own your data, specific to both your business & customers to allow you to make data-driven process improvements effortlessly.
Upskill/Reskill
If learning is only theoretical, why then prioritise learning? Shouldn't learning drive credibility and drive popularity to lead to business development & growth? Our learning programme is designed with 25% theory plus 75% real time implementation of the learning in your business supported by the tools, advice & certifications to underpin your credibility locally.
Ready to enrol?
It's FREE for you!
Sign up to digitise your business.
When you sign up for the programme, you will receive a call from an onboarding specialist. You can then set up a digital app for your business in under 10 minutes. You will be trained to digitally manage your business in a series of simple clicks. You will also be trained to collect critical data about your business and customers instantly. A welcome kit will be sent to you within 7 days. You will be given a contact number to call & seek personalised business & technical advice for your business.
Enrol to get certified.
After several weeks of familiarisation with running your business digitally, you will be enrolled into a practical e-learning course centred on customer experience management. With just 25% theory and about 75% assignments in the form of real-life implementation of the learning, this course is aimed at enabling you to be better placed to respond to any market uncertainties. The courses will be delivered in the form of engaging video tutorials with exciting quizzes, interactive assignments and a final assessment leading to your certification endorsed by the UK Government.
Innovate to grow faster
In time, by utilising the data collected from your digital tools, combining it with the insights acquired from the course and integrating the advice from your business & technology advisors, local businesses should be in a confident position to seek to innovate new processes to their firms. The outcome of the subsequent processes innovated will be measured over time against the incidental business growth, costs, time & efforts saved for local businesses engaged by this initiative.
Don't take our word for it!
Hear it straight from these local businesses & business networks we reached out to and this is what they felt about this programme.
James, Vaperrizo, Belfast
Clare Campbell, Curtis Opticians, Dungiven
Tim McKane, NI Business Facebook Group