The Growth Hub is here to help your business maximise its potential.
Whether it's sourcing funding, developing your team or breaking into new markets; our experts are on-hand to consult, connect and collaborate.
We're here to help every growing business grow. To do this, we need to ask you a few questions to ascertain the best shape and size of support on offer.
The first stage is registering on our website, by doing so we can check your eligibility and suitability across our range of support options.
Depending on the growth stage of your business, different options will be available to you:
All Gloucestershire businesses are able to access our online business support, attend our networking events and use The Growth Hub space.
The next tier (access to our Insight, Highlight and Spotlight business growth events) will be open to businesses that meet European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) eligibility criteria.
At a higher level, our in-house Business Navigators and Business Guides are on-hand to offer bespoke support to businesses that show moderate growth and high growth respectively.
Therefore an early-stage business can access each level of support in turn; as it grows and meets the criteria for the next.
Business support can be accessed remotely via our website, via telephone, or in-person whether at your place of work or one of our Growth Hubs around Gloucestershire.
Discover more about our specialist team of Business Navigators and Business Guides, the experts on-hand to help your business grow.
Chris Gibbs
Peter Brown
Angela Spenley
Andy Kime
Tina Paton
Agi Seabright
Nathalie Dawson
Holly Sweet
With deep roots in the local business community, Chris is a born-and-bred Gloucestershire business consultant with experience that has taken him around the world. He has worked in California, Japan, Singapore and Milan; advising businesses on sales, marketing, finance, strategy and leadership for more than 30 years.
His specialist expertise and notable insights into business funding options has built him a well-respected reputation amongst Gloucestershire’s business community and beyond.
Peter’s specialist strengths are drawn from his 30+ year career holding senior strategic roles across FMCG consumer and industrial brands, plus PL volume manufacturing.
As an SME board member, Peter has hands-on experience across finance, business turnaround, distributor acquisition, repositioning sales models, export distribution and e-commerce. Peter is a skilled consultant in NPD, operations and production and QC processes.
As a business coach in Gloucestershire, and previously as a Growth Coach for Growth Accelerator, Angela has worked with many ambitious businesses over many industry sectors.
Focusing heavily on growth strategy, Angela specialises in helping businesses find effective ways to overcome barriers to growth and plan for scale up. With proven expertise across all strategic marketing channels, Angela retains a firm focus on an organisation’s bottom line and operational efficiency.
Andy joins The Growth Hub having spent 20 years in the B2B financial services arena, the majority focused solely in the Gloucestershire region.
With many years’ experience of cash flow and term lending, Andy has played a pivotal role assisting Gloucestershire SMEs with their business growth.
Most recently, Andy has spent six years at Santander, managing a portfolio of 125+ businesses; applying his experience across all sizes and sectors.
Tina spent her early career in marketing departments of large organisations, including The AA. After relocating to Gloucestershire, she established and ran her own successful business for 10 years, before wanting to use her experience to help other businesses.
Having been born in Poland and then studied in the United States, Agi brings her international experience from a raft of forward-facing roles.
Having worked in both the public and private sectors, Agi is a well-rounded advisor to existing organisations and future entrepreneurs alike.
Nathalie’s background in sales and marketing, project management and business development enables her to quickly understand many of the common pain points in growing businesses.
Having lived and worked in Gloucestershire for 20+ years, her passion for the growth of the county’s economy underpins her daily work at The Growth Hub.
Having studied in Gloucestershire, Holly worked in Human Resources and Business Development; often at the junction between the business and academic worlds.
With experience in commercial services, particularly marketing and events, Holly honed her range of skills before bringing them to The Growth Hub to help other businesses to grow.
We are expanding across the county to make support accessible to your business, no matter where in Gloucestershire it's based.
