Business Advice, Coaching, Training and Project Management
Business Builder was established by Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce in 2005 as a business advice, coaching, and training company.
Since its creation, Business Builder has evolved and has recently become project manager for several local initiatives:
Business Builder, the commercial arm of Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce, has developed an exciting and unique joint venture with colleagues at De Montfort University (DMU) Business and Law Faculty to provide an innovative new business support service to help companies in the city and county reach their full potential.
The service, designed to assist local companies in gaining a competitive advantage through innovation and enterprise, is geared towards providing user-friendly face-to-face support to meet the needs of the local business community.
To help Leicester and Leicestershire businesses identify opportunities for growth the support service offers a free initial business review meeting; this meeting acts as a starting point, enabling companies to access the many areas of advice, resources, workshops, events and courses available to them.
This new business support service will help local companies to develop and grow by encouraging them to embrace new opportunities, ideas and contacts including:
- Linking businesses with cutting edge resources at DMU
- Providing bespoke services to businesses by combining the best of commercial and academic support to assist the growth of SMEs in Leicester and Leicestershire
- Ensuring that businesses have access to the most innovative and effective business support available, tailored to their individual needs
- Offering new resources to support business survival and growth
- Provide internship,placement and international student transfer opportunities
Business Builder, working in conjunction with De Montfort University, can provide a unique commercial offering to enable businesses to develop and expand including:
Impartial advice for:
- Business start-up
- Entrepreneurship diagnostics
- New venture creation
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Funding and Finance
- Advice sessions both generic and sector specific
- Business news
- Environmental sustainability
- Business regulations
- E courses
- Alumni and business guest speakers
Tailored workshops and E-commerce courses
A wide range of workshops on up to date business topics such as effective marketing and modern communications are available.
Networking events
A variety of networking events will be organised at different times and in varying formats to suit all types of companies, enabling them to meet, share ideas and develop business opportunities.
Access to business information
- Research and knowledge searches
- Intellectual Property service
- Market research database
Find Out More
To find out how your business can benefit from this new service and to book your free initial business review meeting please contact Paul Murphy or Jackie Ledger
Tel 0116 258 7354 or email jackiel@bizbuild.co.uk
Some of our Projects include:
Young Chamber
Young Chamber is an initiative to bridge the gap between businesses and their future workforce – school students. Participating students have the opportunity to work on:
- Enterprising projects
- Start up and operate small businesses
- Attend business events and workshops
- Organise meetings and conferences
This gives students a genuine opportunity to demonstrate their entrepreneurial skills and potentially support real businesses by working on solving real business issues and challenges.
We have successfully established Young Chambers within The City of Leicester College, Casterton Business and Enterprise College, Lutterworth College and Rushey Mead School.
The Young Chamber does need support from local businesses to help with forging links between the business sector and our local schools and college. More information is available on this wonderful opportunity to use your business skills to help.
Business Builder offers FREE Business Coaching
Could you and your organisation benefit from some FREE business coaching?
Coaching can -
Help employees find their own solutions
Improve time management
Improve management style
Improve staff development
Improve communications
Improve productivity
Improve interdependency for managers and leaders
As part of a current coaching and mentoring project Business Builder is looking for a volunteer organisation who we can support with business coaching for managers.
The organisation can be any sector and it does not matter if you are a start up or established business, a charity or community organisation. If you are based in the East Midlands and interested to receive some free coaching to help improve your business performance, please contact us for further details at jackiel@bizbuild.co.uk or Tel 0116 2587354.
FREE Problem solving help from University Students
Would your business like some free problem solving help from university students?
Business Builder is working on a project with some very talented math’s and physics university students. They would like the opportunity to work with 3 Leicestershire businesses that are currently facing a business problem and could benefit from some outside help to solve it.
This might include developing a database, developing some software, analysing information, financial systems, mapping programmes, probabilities or logistics.
This is a great opportunity for a business to take advantage of some young innovative talent. Please contact us for further details at jackiel@bizbuild.co.uk or Tel 0116 2587354.
The Local Better Regulation Office
(a non-governmental department established to reduce regulatory burdens on business) is working in partnership with Leicester and Leicestershire Enterprise Partnership to explore the potential of developing a new relationship between local businesses and regulatory services such as Environmental Health, Trading Standards, the Fire Service and HMRC.
Businesses regularly cite regulation as being a barrier to growth and the aim of the project is to provide a joint offer of support from regulatory services to enable business to overcome both the real and perceived regulatory barriers. The content of this offer will be developed by both local businesses and regulatory services.
Business Builder is supporting this project by hosting the project officer and providing the links to the local business community. Addressing regulation as a barrier to growth is considered a key role of Local Enterprise Partnerships. Leicester and Leicestershire are leading the way in this work and Leicestershire Chamber of Commerce has been recognised as a key partner.
For further information please contact Kathryn Preece on 07833 469520 or email kathrynp@bizbuild.co.uk
Growth Loan Fund
The Growth Loan Fund was set up by Business Builder to financially assist small new start-up businesses and those up to 3 years old based within the Leicestershire county boundary.
The loan is aimed at businesses where insufficient personal capital or additional security is available to offer the lender access to funds through normal commercial channels.
We are always interested to hear from innovative and niche businesses. Not only can we offer funding but also professional business advice to develop, grow and sustain the business.
Contact
Business Builder provides excellent business development services, not only to Chamber members, but also to the whole business community.
Whether you have just started up or if you have been trading for a while, Business Builder can help you develop, grow, and sustain your business. Their principle advisers are vastly experienced, having worked for, and with, SME's in a variety of industry sectors for numerous years.
For more information on any of our projects, or any other enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Business Builder Limited
1 Mill Lane, Leicester, LE2 7HU
Telephone 0116 2587354, Website www.bizbuild.co.uk or email info@bizbuild.co.uk
