More than 3,000 business leaders are to mentor small firms as the UK economy slides into recession. The mentors have volunteered 10 hours of their time as part of the government’s business training course Help to Grow: Management, which offers SMEs a total of 50 hours of leadership and management training across 12 weeks, with the government covering 90% of the costs involved.
They are part of a growing national network of trained mentors, recruited in under four months by a consortium comprising small business support platform Enterprise Nation, business support provider, Newable, and the Association of Business Mentors (ABM).
The course is delivered by more than 50 business schools with the aim to increase the core management skills in the UK’s ambitious small business community to help increase productivity and resilience
