We are grateful and indebted to our National Sponsors who are represented at all the events across the UK.
Through their continued support and commitment these events have developed into fine examples of ‘joined-up’ government at its best.
Business Link
Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, to maintain and to grow a business.
Business Link exists:
- To help anyone who is thinking of starting a business
- To help small and medium-sized businesses to grow
- To help businesses to deal with problems, challenges and opportunities
Business Link provides information and advice to help customers make the most of their opportunities. Rather than providing all the advice and help itself,
it will fast-track customers to the expert help they need - whatever the issue!
The Business Link service is delivered through advisers in your local area, supported by
- A single national award-winning website www.businesslink.gov.uk
packed with useful information and practical help, and
- A national phone line 0845 600 9006
both of which are linked to your local Business Link.
The Business Link service is a crucial part of the Government's campaign to promote enterprise and to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business.
www.businesslink.gov.uk
Invest Northern Ireland
Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland’s main economic development
Organisation.
We are working to increase wealth and prosperity in Northern Ireland. We do this by delivering expertise and resources to accelerate the creation and growth of businesses.
Focusing on the three key economic drivers of being entrepreneurial, being innovative, and being international, our goal is to help to:
- Improve the competitiveness of our client companies.
- Create more positive attitudes to enterprise and more and better quality business start-ups.
- Increase innovation, R&D and commercialisation of research
- Increase skill levels
- Promote a stronger international focus by increasing inward investment and helping companies develop broader and better exports.
We aim to be a world- class development agency that is a forward- looking and responsive champion of innovation, entrepreneurship and internationalisation.
www.investni.com
Scottish Executive
The Scottish Executive is the devolved government for Scotland, including health, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.
The executive was established in 1999, following the first elections to the Scottish Parliament. It is a coalition between the Scottish Labour party and the Scottish Liberal Democrat Party.
The executive is led by a First Minister who is nominated by the parliament and in turn appoints the other Scottish Ministers who make up the Cabinet.
Executive civil servants are accountable to Scottish Ministers, who are themselves accountable to the Scottish Parliament.
www.scotland.gov.uk