SJ Beale HR Consult is now an approved advisor for government growth vouchers and can deliver strategic start-up advice to small and medium sized businesses as part of the Growth Voucher programme.

The new Growth Vouchers scheme offers advice and guidance to businesses taking part and subsidies of up to £2,000 towards the cost of that advice to successful applicants. The programme will then monitor SME performance over the coming years in order to assess the impact that advice has had.

SJ Beale HR Consult can help put strong foundations in place to equip managers with essential HR skills and a strong HR framework to support the business.  Employees are the life blood of any company and should be managed fairly and reasonably with employment law.

The Growth Voucher marketplace provides an accessible and cost effective stepping stone for those people forming a new business”. 

The marketplace is designed to make it much easier for businesses to find providers of strategic advice on key HR topics like:

• Developing skills and employing staff.

• Improving leadership and management;

• Developing skills and employing staff.

Businesses that have been running for a year, with fewer than 50 employees, and have not paid for strategic external advice in the past three years will be able to apply at https://www.gov.uk/apply-growth-vouchers

They will go through a process which will help them identify what sort of advice they might benefit from. Small business network Enterprise Nation has developed a marketplace for business advice where participants will then be able to find a qualified adviser at www.enterprisenation.com/marketplace The Growth Vouchers programme will run until March 2015.

About Enterprise Nation Enterprise Nation is a small business network with more than 75,000 members. Its aim is to help people turn their good ideas into great businesses – through expert advice, events, networking and inspiring books. Enterprise Nation was founded in 2005 by Emma Jones MBE also co-founder of StartUp Britain. Enterprise Nation is also heading up a new initiative which seeks to represent the needs of entrepreneurs, called the Entrepreneurs’ Alliance. It is an umbrella pressure group that includes the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), the Federation of Private Businesses (FPB) and School for Startups, BusinessZone.co.uk and think tanks Centre for Entrepreneurs and The Entrepreneurs’ Network (TEN) which between them represent 2.5m businesses.

For more information on the Growth Voucher programme and instructing SJ Beale as your HR advisor call 0845 241 1868.