Starting a New Enterprise Programme

Would you like to run your own business?

Not sure if it is right for you?

Don’t know where to begin?

This new enterprise programme is designed for individuals who are interested in starting a new business, are ready to take their business to the next level or are thinking about a new direction.

Whether you have a ground-breaking idea or a hobby you would like to scale up, the challenges are the same. Is there a market for what you want to do? How will you differentiate your offering? Will you attract enough customers? Will you make enough money? What is the best structure for your business? How will you make it happen? What if it all goes wrong?

Our comprehensive programme will equip you with the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to address these questions. It will help prepare you for the decisions you will make and perhaps most importantly, it will help you evaluate whether the step is right for you.

About Our Course

Hear about real-world entrepreneurship. Our trainers have first hand experience of starting and growing businesses.

We’ll explore all aspects of starting a new business from crafting a solid business plan to understanding the entrepreneurial experience. We will explain the research, planning and thinking that is required when starting something new, and give you practical, tried and tested, tools to help you take your idea forward.

Join our Starting a new enterprise programme and get access to:

Business Planning, Marketing Essentials, and Financial Management and Planning courses.
Personalised mentoring support around the courses tailored to you and your idea. Benefit from up to six hours of one-to-one meetings with an experienced entrepreneur.

Our courses are focused and interactive with ideas and good practice made easily accessible. Breakout and networking sessions provide opportunities to share ideas and ask questions.

What we will cover

Topics include:

Assessing your readiness and the personal commitment
Evaluating the viability of an idea
Understanding your customers and marketing strategy
Preparing a budget and managing finances
Exploring funding options and what funders want
Telling your story in a compelling business plan
Preparing for potential challenges and setbacks

The course includes six hours of one-to-one meetings with a Start-up Mentor to further support your entrepreneurial journey.

Price £700 plus VAT

What Our Customers Say

It was hugely encouraging to work with an advisor who both understands the values that we aspire to as an organisation, and also offers concrete recommendations, based upon practical experience, to enable us to be more effective as a board and as an organisation.

Excellent sessions, engaging and useful to my job role. Thank you!

A competent and experienced facilitator who was able to get the best from those taking part. It was an easy decision to invite Fresh Management Solutions back to facilitate this next session. Would recommend them very highly to others looking to develop their business.

The ways in which the training made me think about different frameworks for planning, decision-making and monitoring projects will undoubtedly be useful in the future. Getting a professional qualification is a really nice bonus as it shows that the training was leading towards something in the short-term.

Very well delivered with a good amount of discussion and content. Very useful for my area of practice and throughout I could link the content to my work area.