Our Partners
Greater Manchester Business Growth Hub
The Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across Greater Manchester realise their ambitions. Since 2011, they have supported more than 15,000 businesses across GM. They support businesses at all stages of their growth journey with a broad range of services. The Hub offers expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more. Most of the support is fully funded and provided at no direct cost to your business.
Skills Support for Growth
Skills Support for Growth is a fully funded skills consultation service tailored to upskill employees, improve productivity, and drive business growth. Their expert skills consultants work at your pace to help grow your business by identifying skills gaps, developing your talent, and enhancing your team’s performance.
Tameside is supported by Skills Support for Growth Account Manager, Lyndsay Thomas, who provides a quick turnaround for Tameside businesses requiring help with apprenticeships, training, and qualifications for their employees. We refer via email, introducing the business and their needs, and Skills Support for Growth respond within 24 hours to update us on the outcome of the discussion. They attend our events on a regular basis which keeps them up to date with the needs and skill gaps in the borough.
Enterprising You
Are you self-employed and looking to grow your business? Further support is available in Greater Manchester from Enterprising You, which offers free, fully funded support and advice to get your business off the ground.
They can help you:
Launch your business with confidence
- Build solid foundations for growth
- Develop the skills you need to lead and scale
Tameside Libraries Information Service - Business Information
The Tameside Libraries Information Service offers a wide range of business information, including help on setting up a new business, expanding an existing one, investigating the competition, and marketing your business.
The libraries service provides friendly staff and access to both print and online resources to help with your business enquiry.
Build A Business GM
Build A Business is an innovative new project aimed at small businesses, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking of starting their own business.
It’s running in libraries across all ten Greater Manchester authorities including Tameside, offering tailored support to new businesses. They are committed to offering a variety of workshops and services, including information surgeries, digital support for online selling, business planning, and pitching assistance.
MIDAS
MIDAS is the inward investment promotion agency for Greater Manchester, with a strategic aim of securing significant levels of new investment for the city region to create and safeguard jobs.
This is achieved through the global business marketing of the city region's key sectors, and the provision of an extensive package of free advice and assistance for potential investors and location consultants.
MIDAS has helped hundreds of businesses successfully relocate to or expand in Greater Manchester. MIDAS is represented in Tameside by Cherryanne Cooper, who has been an integral part of the Large Employers Network, encouraging employer participation and introducing new members. They represent many of our established large businesses, allowing them to gain inward investment and opportunities, contributing to continued growth of the borough.
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce
Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce is the largest accredited Chamber of Commerce in the UK with over 4000 members. Based in the heart of Manchester City Centre on Deansgate, the Chamber has a strong presence in Greater Manchester’s ten local authority areas. It is committed to providing businesses with a platform to connect with other businesses, communicate their message and create opportunities for a skilled workforce. With an ever-growing network and a dedicated policy team, the Chamber is the recognised voice of business in Greater Manchester.
The Chamber’s membership base ranges from sole traders to large corporates across a broad range of sectors; there’s support for every type of business.
Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter
The Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter is a voluntary membership and assessment scheme that aims to raise employment standards across GM, for all organisations of any size, sector or geography.
The Charter is driven to develop diverse, equal and truly inclusive working conditions across Greater Manchester. By promoting the benefits of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, they aim to support employers to create workplaces that embrace the seven characteristics of good employment in ways that ensure fair pay, opportunity and progression to all. These issues are central to the fulfilment of Good Employment.