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About GrowthAccelerator

GrowthAccelerator is a new, premium service that will help England's brightest growing businesses achieve their ambitions with rapid, sustainable growth. It’s a partnership between private enterprise and government. And it’s affordable.

GrowthAccelerator's network of world-class growth experts work side by side with leaders of high-growth potential SMEs to provide them with the know-how and ability to achieve sustainable growth. The service will help discover the real issues that could be holding businesses back, define the right growth plan and open doors to world class business experts and networks.

Whatever these businesses need to speed and sustain growth, GrowthAccelerator will help drive them forward.

What will my business get from GrowthAccelerator?

How can I grow sales more quickly? Where do I get funding? Where are the new ideas that will galvanise my business? These are questions all good business leaders ask on their way to even greater success. Together we’ll find the answers and get you there.

Our experts and coaches will help you:

Appreciate your true potential for growth and set achievable goals

Identify and overcome the barriers holding you back

Attract investment by developing your funding proposition and introducing you to funders

Stimulate product development, commercialise your innovation and motivate your employees

Energise your plans with one-to-one leadership and management advice

Meet peers who’ve tackled the same barriers as you

Connect with business experts and networks to achieve insight and build relationships

Our growth experts

Our aim is to work with 26,000 businesses over three years and we have built an unrivalled 100 strong team of Growth Managers responsible for identifying ambitious, high growth potential businesses and matching them with our 800 experienced Growth Coaches across the country.

Our Growth Coaches:

Have proven track records in helping small and medium sized companies accelerate and sustain their growth, in every size, region and sector.

Have made the same journey themselves so they know what it’s like to fight for success.

Know when to talk, when to listen, and how to lead you to ideas that will transform your business.

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Eligibility

To be eligible, businesses need to be registered in England with fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than £40m.

Is your business eligible? Visit www.growthaccelerator.com to take our simple online test to find out.

What do I have to invest?

GrowthAccelerator is a partnership between private enterprise and government which means we can keep the service affordable. Because Government is investing with you in the growth of your business, the cost to you is significantly reduced. Your investment in GrowthAccelerator will reflect the size of your business:

Micro and start-up businesses (up to 9 employees) – £600

Small businesses (10 to 49 employees) – £1,500

Medium-sized companies (50 to 249 employees) – £3,000

How does coaching benefit the business bottom line?

Businesses who seek external advice and information are 14% more ambitious and 50% more successful than those who don't. (BIS 2010)

Coaching is proven - 92% said it has a positive impact on the bottom line (CIPD).

80% of businesses that sought external advice expect to grow in the next two to three years compared with 67% of businesses that didn't. (BIS 2010)

Coaching is proven to help businesses to maximise their growth

potential

Coaching helped Cheshire based Clippy's Apples to breakthrough into major UK supermarket chains with its rapidly growing product line. The business also grew its annual revenue from £60k to approaching £1m in two and a half years.

Virtual fitting room, Metail worked with a coach to help achieve its growth ambitions. In the last year the team has more than doubled and the business has raised £1.5m of funding.

Greenray Manufacturing worked with a coach to reshape its business strategy and energise growth. As a result the business is forecast to grow by an average of 33% year on year over the next five years with plans to recruit an additional 14 people this financial year to meet current workload