Ayrshire

Business Gateway Ayrshire works with individuals and businesses across Ayrshire to support them to achieve their ambitions and goals.

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How we can help

Our team brings extensive experience, practical resources and 1:1 advice to help you at every stage of your business journey—from starting up to scaling for growth. Whether you’re researching your idea and target market, building and enhancing your online presence, hiring employees, or looking to improve your social media skills, our support is here to help you achieve your goals.

There are many ways we can support your start-up journey.

Our Business Support Tool is a great place to begin. It takes just 10 minutes to complete and provides you with an instant toolkit with key resources & information. We'll then connect you with a member of the team at our local office for further support.

Our website offers a business plan guide and template to download when you’re ready, market reports and research, as well as handy online guides, articles and video tutorials. Plus, we have a great range of webinars to hone your start-up skills – from writing a business plan to marketing on a budget.

With our help, you could be in business sooner than you imagined.

Our resources and one-to-one support can help you strengthen your business.

Whether you’re looking to take on premises or learn more about digital marketing, we can help you take the next step. Get started by taking 10 minutes to complete our Business Support tool and get a personalised dashboard of online resources and webinars.

We can also offer 1-1 advice at a time that works for you. Together, you and your business adviser can create a strategic action plan to help you achieve your goals.

Our online resources and webinars can help you learn new skills, create opportunities and gain confidence. From HR to restructuring, innovation and digital marketing - we can help. And if specialist input is required, we can connect you to other sources of support.

For businesses demonstrating ambition and potential for growth, Business Gateway Ayrshire offers a blend of adviser time, specialist services and products to help businesses realise their potential.

This includes general business skills workshops through to specialist 1:1 surgeries in areas such as digital marketing, ICT and procurement. Access to a dedicated adviser to help businesses achieve their growth ambition may also be available.

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Every business in Ayrshire, whether new or existing, can speak to a business adviser over phone/video call and via email to discuss specific business issues, challenges and opportunities.

Qualifying businesses may also be eligible to work with an adviser over a longer period of time.

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New and growing businesses are important to the local economy and population throughout Ayrshire.

We understand that starting a new business can be both challenging and rewarding, and that many of those challenges are more difficult to overcome if you are a young entrepreneur.

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At Business Gateway we know that having good connections is important for your business.

Business Gateway Ayrshire has developed excellent partnerships with a number of organisations providing support to new and existing SMEs across the region. We work directly with organisations such as Ayrshire Chamber, FSB, Bright Idea, Banks, accountants, lawyers and business consultants.

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Business Gateway Ayrshire has access to a wide range of funding and finance programmes to support the growth and development of your business.

Our advisers can help to identify appropriate funding and guide you through the eligibility criteria and application process.

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Whether you are employing staff for the first time or need to grow your existing team, we can help.

We can help you access wage subsidy and employment support programmes and further training and development for your team to introduce new skills and improve productivity.

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