Enterprise development

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Business support
and acceleration

Helping smaller companies and their enablers with support, advice and acceleration

Skills, expertise and external advisory experts to support smaller companies

Ready to discuss your business or programme?

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Find the business support you need

Experience supporting programme teams

For Digital Pathfinders in the North of Tyne region, Edale carried out an external evaluation of the business support programme. The client’s published feedback highlights an understanding of the programme and its beneficiaries, a responsive reporting process and useful insights into effectiveness. Read the Digital Pathfinders client feedback.

Improve your business performance, get financially fit, improve investment readiness and learn hacks to grow your business.

Our experience as business builders and startup operators with developing plans, getting funding, practical tips to move forward and market development can help others.

Edale owns a business support operation launched after successfully starting our own businesses. We saw peers that could be helped. We decided to make these skills and experience available as a specialist consulting service. We are action and outcome orientated. We are turning a cottage industry (local, well meaning but often inexperienced providers) into something with real world advice and networks that deliver a real change to the companies receiving support.

Business advisory for owners and programme teams

Edale helps business owners turn growth ambitions into practical decisions. We also support organisations that commission enterprise programmes, bringing commercial experience to the design and delivery of business support.

You may need a clearer business plan, a stronger funding proposition or help deciding which opportunities deserve your time. Start with the challenge you are facing. We can then agree the support and outputs that fit your business or programme.

Choose the support that fits your next decision

  • Business planning: test your business model, clarify priorities and turn ideas into an action plan.
  • Investment readiness: examine the growth story, forecasts and evidence behind your funding proposition.
  • Marketing and business development: clarify your customers, proposition and routes to market.
  • Programme delivery: discuss coaching, workshops and support for business cohorts.
  • Programme evidence: explore evaluation, participant research and reporting needs.

Agree the work before it begins

An initial discussion identifies the issue, the decision you need to make and the information already available. We then agree the scope, deliverables, timetable and fees. Depending on the assignment, the output might be a business plan, a revised funding presentation, workshop materials or a report with recommendations. The proposal sets out what is included.

Book a business support discussion or email hq@edale.co with a short description of your needs.

Programme examples describe Edale’s delivery experience. They do not confirm that a funded scheme is open or that support is free. Ask us about the scope and terms of support available for your needs today.

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Services we deliver

With a team of experienced practitioners we can offer advice, experiences, networks and a new perspective.

  • Access to finance
  • Strategic marketing
  • Business basics
  • Investment readiness
  • Business development
  • Creative design
  • Business planning
  • Subsidy Control
  • Grant Management
  • Grant Assessment
  • Skills Development and Planning
  • Net Zero

Examples of programme delivery

Clean Growth UK network

National network of clean and green businesses getting funding, investment and due diligence from Edale

Invest East

Investment readiness from Edale for cohorts of Norfolk and Suffolk startups + scaleups

Worcestershire Innovation

1:1 exploratory business planning in pilot of WINN Innovation Launch Pad

DigitalCity Accelerator Programme

Delivery partner providing 7 themed workshops over 10 weeks to digital + tech businesses

DigitalCity Investment Readiness 2021

Investment coaching and pitch training for digital firms in Tees Valley

Here2Help Business Adapt

Worcestershire based firms marketing and digital support to deal with covid impacts

Space2Waves in to UAE + South Africa

Supporting 16 European SMEs internationalise into UAE and South Africa

Programmes we've supported

Enterprising Worcestershire

Enable start-up and early stage enterprises to develop and prosper

Creative Fuse Tees Valley

Accessible financial workshops and 1:1 creative, cultural and heritage organisations

Launchpad from Falmouth University

Two crews of tech startups to get investment ready for raising equity funding.

Interreg North Sea Region

Facilitate SME workshops on Nature Business Benefit Cycle products in the Wash & North Norfolk coast

EU BlueInvest Readiness Assistance operated by PwC

Coaching Blue Economy SMEs enhancing strategic approach, investment readiness + business models.

News and musings on these programmes


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