The Powering Up programme allows community business leaders and their teams to access specific technical expertise, alongside professional development and wellbeing support.
The technical support can include:
- Digitising your services and/or your internal systems
- Adapting or developing your business mode
- Human resources advice including employment, redundancy and furlough
- Health and safety advice including Covid-19 compliance
- Financial planning including managing cash flow, crisis and change management support.
The professional development and wellbeing support includes:
- Professional and leadership coaching
- Peer-to-peer mentoring via a network of community business leaders
- Resilience and wellbeing support.
The programme is open to any community business in England to apply; however, they will be prioritising support to community businesses in the most deprived areas of England, as well as organisations that are supporting and led by disabled people and/or people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME*) groups.
For further details and the application form click here.