Boost for businesses as growth hub makes series of hires
A NEW business service has appointed eight business growth experts with more than 200 years of combined experience to help the growth of businesses across the Sheffield City Region.
The Sheffield City Region (SCR) Growth Hub, which has core funding of £4.82m, has appointed the eight business growth specialists with experience from sectors ranging from creative industries and healthcare technologies to aerospace and rail.
The Growth Hub is designed to be a single point of contact for all businesses across nine local authority areas to access specialist support in key areas.
The partners include companies, consultancies, universities, Chambers of Commerce and local authorities, and national provision such as Innovate UK and UK Trade and Investment.
Head of the SCR Growth Hub, David Grimes, said: “It’s great to have these eight excellent business people ready and in place to help businesses far and wide to develop and expand. The eight business growth specialists all have different sectoral experience and can go in and help businesses from the word go.
“Everything is coming together for the Growth Hub and we can now start getting some results from businesses. I have great confidence that the people in place are going to be a huge part of that and they can impart their wisdom that they’ve accumulated over the years across the region.”
The team of eight, appointed because of their backgrounds in a variety of different industries, have knowledge in areas including business planning, culture change, start-up support, leadership and management, and product innovation.
