The Marches Growth Hub

The Marches Growth Hub is the unrivalled centre of businesses support, advice and help covering Herefordshire, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.

The hub combines an online advice centre at www.marchesgrowthhub.co.uk with three physical bases in Hereford, Shrewsbury and Telford.

The online, virtual hub is a business-friendly website packed with links to local, regional and national support programmes, funding and finance opportunities, employment advice and skills updates and support for start-up businesses.

You’ll also find all the latest information and resources on key business issues such as the EU Exit and the Covid-19 pandemic and links to the National Business Support Helpline.

Because of our partnership with regional and national business support programmes, the virtual hub can offer access to the widest range of support and advice possible.

You will also find details of all the events, seminars, business workshops and networking sessions the hub and its partners run across the Marches on the Marches Growth Hub website.

For expert advice closer to home, our three bases in Hereford, Shrewsbury and Telford offer unrivalled business expertise delivered by our local authority partners.

They work with businesses of all sizes and sectors – and at all stages of their development – to ensure they can access funding opportunities, innovate and expand, develop new markets, train and upskill their employees, operate sustainably and meet their growth ambitions.

Whatever support your business needs, the Marches Growth Hub is the place to turn.

Marches Business Support Steering Group

The Marches Growth Hub brings together local, regional and national partners to provide a range of business support services locally. The Business Support Steering Group, a sub-group of the Marches LEP Board, has overall responsibility for the Growth Hub’s strategic direction and is led by an independently recruited Chair, Dave Courteen, who acts as the LEP’s Small Business Champion. The Steering Group enables key partners to consider local needs, to work collectively when developing and delivering business support services and to feed back the voice of business to government departments.

Marches Growth Hub Operations Group

The Marches Growth Hub Operations Group enables referrals to be managed effectively between partners so that businesses get the right support, from the right place at the right time.