Peer Networks

Build Back Better

From finance and HR, crisis management, to sales and marketing challenges, our expert facilitators, business owners, Jane Binnion and Caroline Charnley, will create a safe support network, helping to build and strengthen your business, and improve its overall performance.

Why a Women’s cohort?

We know that, even in the best of times, women leaders of SMEs and not for profit organisations, carry a lot on their own, and it is clearly recorded that women entrepreneurs have been severely economically disadvantaged by the pandemic. Female run businesses, often in sectors vulnerable to economic shocks, experienced a higher rate of closure during the lockdown, and many more are struggling with the unprecedented situation. BEIS have allocated funding for a Peer Networks programme to support organisations through this difficult time and, knowing the specific challenges faced by women, The Growing Club, via Boost Lancashire, has secured a portion of this funding to run cohorts specifically for women in Lancashire.

So what are Peer Networks?

It is well recorded that accountability to our peers is a powerful motivator.

The aim of this funded programme is to provide a safe learning environment with trained facilitators, in which local women entrepreneurs and senior managers can share the difficult issues their businesses are facing in the current pandemic. Using action-learning methodology, possible resolutions to those issues can be discussed within a supportive framework in the group sessions, with an intention to effect change.

Subject specific trainers will be available to provide the group with assistance in the areas they need it, such as finance, marketing, HR and recruitment.