More Than 100 Business Owners and Directors Attend Bristol Launch of Inspire Elite – ‘The Scale Up Leaders’

More than 100 business owners and directors from Bristol and the surrounding area attended the recent launch of Inspire Elite - a new service to support local companies wanting to scale up.

The launch was held at the Enterprise Zone of the University of the West of England recently (March 6).

Mandy Paterson, director for Inspire, said:  “It was fantastic to see over 100 business leaders at our Scale Up Bristol event.  There is a myriad of support programmes and events available to businesses in the city however the difficulty for many business owners – who are busy running their companies – is to work out which are useful to them at any given time.

“It was apparent there is a real need for an impartial service to direct them quickly and easily to the most appropriate support to meet their needs.

“We provide a dedicated relationship manager to work with them on their strategy and link them up to relevant support and opportunities to fulfil that need.”

Business owners who attended were also introduced to Nick Welsh, who has recently been appointed as the head of Bristol Elite.

Nick said: “Having recently joined the organisation, it was fantastic to see the hard work of my colleagues’ come to fruition and deliver such a positive and productive event.  It was refreshing to meet leaders of ambitious, growing businesses and talk to them about Elite Bristol.  Our programme will deliver direction and much needed support across Bristol and the wider community.”

The launch was also an opportunity for some of those business owners, directors or decision makers to apply for the prestigious Goldman Sachs “10,000 Small Businesses UK” programme.

The programme provides a high-quality practical education tailored to the needs of business leaders. It offers over 100 hours of teaching designed by leading experts and delivered by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Aston University and the University of Leeds. For those who qualify the course is fully funded by the Goldman Sachs Foundation.

Inspire is a not for profit business organisation which has been providing support to the SME business community through their highly experienced team of business advisors for over 20 years. They have partnered with Goldman Sachs to bring this valuable package of support to businesses in the West of England. The next Bristol Elite strategy day is currently being planned.  Anyone who wants more information should call 0117 203 4288 or email [email protected]