The Business Hothouse

Programme details

The Business Hothouse is the U.K.’s biggest free business support programme. We offer 12 hours of free business coaching and management consultancy – worth up to £1,400 – across the following areas:

• Starting a business
• Finding business finance & funding
• Launching a new product or service
• Improving business productivity
• Developing leadership & management skills
• Accessing the Invest4 Grant Fund

We deliver our support sessions via online and in-person workshops & boot camps and all sessions are led by experts. These sessions are open to any U.K. resident aged 18+. You can book your free place on these session via the links on our website pages.

Our Invest4 Grant Fund awards cash to over 90% of the coast-to-capital based business & start-up owners who apply to it. The fund is also open to sole traders. Grants from £1,500 to £170,000 are awarded.

For more information email us at hothouse@chi.ac.uk

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