This workshop will run over three weeks in July and will guide you through the process of completing a Business Plan for your businesses. 

• Monday 8 & Wed 10 July 
• Monday 15 & Wed 17 July
• Monday 22 & Wed 25 July

It will also provide you with feedback and support to help your run a better business ensuring it is competitive for the challenging environment you are setting up in.

You will have access to the information, basic skills and a framework to explore, assess or re-evaluate your business idea and its future direction/growth options (e.g Export, Innovation, Franchising, Partnerships, Investors)    

Workshop content

• Self-assessment / entrepreneurship
• Legal issues for start-ups
• Preparing a business plan
• Marketing for the small business – an introduction
• Researching the market
• Finance
• Funding sources / approaches
• Basic book-keeping
• Sales
• ICT and the small business 

On completion of the course, the participants will have:

• Evaluated your business ideas and growth opportunities in terms of market potential
• Assessed the key drivers that influence profitability for your business
• Developed skills to communicate to customers and other stakeholders
• Understand the legal steps that are required to start a business
• Gained an appreciation of the broader legal and management issues to be managed by SMEs
• Constructed a tailored road map for your business for the next six and twelve months