Business Growth Hub to run Access to Finance Masterclasses

Starting in March, the Business Growth Hub is launching a series of full day Access to Finance masterclasses to provide businesses with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage their business finances to achieve growth objectives. 

Access to finance is critical for business growth. Delivered by the specialist experts in our Access to Finance team, and held at The Federation, Central Manchester, these masterclasses will cover a range of subjects all relating to finance. 

The first two masterclasses are: Understanding Finance 15 March 09.00 – 16.00  /   Forward Thinking Funding 20 March 09.00 – 16.00

Understanding Finance

The ability to understand and manage your business finances in a timely fashion has never been more critical in today’s fast-paced competitive environment.

If you’d like expert advice on financial management, with a deeper insight into your financial performance, this is the masterclass for you.

After this masterclass you will come away with:

• An understanding of the importance of financial management
• Learn the fundamentals of profit and loss accounts, cash flow statements and balance sheets
• Awareness of the importance of seeking appropriate professional support
• An insight into the benefits of cloud accounting

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Forward Thinking Funding

The key difference that separates businesses that successfully secure funding from businesses that don’t is communication.

The ability to engage and maintain funder interest whilst clearly communicating your business proposal is vital. 

After this masterclass you will come away with:

• An understanding of the business model canvas and its use as a visual tool for the development and communication of your business proposition to potential funders
• The key principals underlying your approach to funder engagement
• Knowledge of the key fundraising documents necessary for an effective fundraising campaign
• An overview of the UK SME funding landscape

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Venue:

The Federation

Address:

Federation House

2 Federation Street

Manchester

M4 4BF

Funded by the European Regional Development Fund, the Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists helping businesses across Greater Manchester to realise their ambitions.

BGF supports businesses at all stages of their growth journey with a broad range of services. They offer expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes and funding. 

Better still, most of the support is fully-funded and is provided at no direct cost to your business.