Business Support and Finance Taster from HiB

A new opportunity – but get in quick!

Harrow in Business (HiB) is offering you a unique opportunity to boost your business results with a monthly group mentoring/networking service – the first offered in the borough.

However there is only funding for around 90 businesses to take part, and it’s first come first served.

The group mentoring service is aimed at pre-start and existing businesses and features:

Small groups
There will be no more than six people in each group. Clients will be handpicked to ensure an appropriate and varied mix for networking and mentoring purposes.

Experts on tap
Each group will have a facilitator. He or she can call on other experts to also join the monthly meeting if specialist knowledge is required on a topic.

Monthly meetings
At each monthly meeting, mentors will advise their groups on the challenges they are facing. Those taking part will gain from everyone else’s experiences, find they learn faster as a result, and will meet potential clients and suppliers in their newly formed network.

Year Round Business Support
The service includes

• an initial review of your business highlighting the issues and opportunities
• a half-day one-to-one session with a mentor,
• 12 half days of group mentoring, and
• two extra days of expert consultancy in case you need professional help along the way, eg if you need an expert to write your business or marketing plan, rebrand your corporate look or take training courses.

The group mentoring service is being run by HiB and partly sponsored by Harrow Council which is keen to support the local business community and is concerned at the decline in subsidised mentoring from the usual public sector agencies.

To find out more about this programme we are offering taster sessions for both this scheme and the 'Access to Finance' programme at our 'Business Support and Finance Tasters' on the dates shown below, if you can’t make those dates individual appointments with advisers can be arranged.

Course Dates

Tuesday 24 June, 2008 10am to 12pm at HiB, Enterprise House, 297 Pinner Road, Harrow HA1 4HS. Booking essential.

Tuesday 22 July, 2008 10am to 12pm at HiB, Enterprise House, 297 Pinner Road, Harrow HA1 4HS. Booking essential.

To find out more, please call 020 8427 6188 or email

Need Business Funding? Get Access to Funding

To find out more about this programme, why not come along to one of the 'Business Support and Finance Tasters' as shown above.