Business Support Services

A comprehensive range of services

Invest East Yorkshire’s Business Support Services team offers a comprehensive range of services for start-up and established businesses, as well as inward investors.

Our team will ensure that you gain access to the support and services relevant to your business needs. Everything we do is designed to help businesses thrive in the East Riding area.

1-2-1 Advice

Our highly experienced and knowledgeable team of advisers understand how complex business can be. Every business is different, and your business adviser will work with you to understand where you are in your journey. Whether considering starting a business or already established, support is directly tailored to your specific needs and challenges to enable you to grow and develop.

In addition to the 1-2-1 support, there are a range of workshops and events designed to support your business.

You can contact the business support services team directly via email or telephone with any questions or queries:

Grants

There are a range of funding schemes available and businesses can access a variety of funds to support their growth and/or diversification plans.

Contact the team to discuss our current local funding or you can visit our funding portal East Riding 4 Business to search for wider grants, loans, venture capital, or awards relevant to your business needs.

Events

In collaboration with partners, the Invest East Yorkshire team offers workshops, events and networking opportunities designed to support your business.

Our events are considered designed and delivered to meet the current needs of our business community.

To find out more about future events, visit our pages and book directly.

Directory

The Business Support Services team manages The Supply Chain Network Supplier Directory. Created for businesses to showcase their products and services, the directory helps you to identify suitable companies to collaborate with, increase visibility, and generate new enquiries.

Register your company for FREE, to showcase your products and services as well as receive alerts on new opportunities / tenders relevant to your business.

Opportunities

The Supply Chain Network opportunities map is available to businesses to help share intelligence regarding developments, tender/bid opportunities and requests for quotations.

Whether you are looking to identify an additional pipeline of opportunities and contracts to apply for or looking for a supplier yourself and want to post an opportunity the platform is free and easy to use.

Resources

The Invest East Yorkshire Resource Portal is a one-stop-shop where businesses can find a variety of useful information, articles, videos, tools, and templates on an array of subjects from various sources to support your business growth. Register for free access and search hundreds of resources that can be tailored to your business needs.

Signposting

Understanding the wider business support landscape, we work closely with other services and partners to ensure that as a business, you get the appropriate support, advice, or funding from the most relevant source. Where required, we also directly contract with specific business or sector specialists to complement our existing services to deliver workshops, resources, and advice.

You can contact the business support services team directly via email or telephone with any questions or queries:

Expertise

The team offer a variety of expertise against many business disciplines and sectors and collectively work together to ensure access to the most appropriate knowledge and experience the team have to offer. In addition, information, advice and guidance is accessed from across other internal departments including planning, licensing, business rates, environmental health etc as well as external partners such as universities, trade advisers, sector specialists etc.

You can contact the business support services team directly via email or telephone with any questions or queries:

The Business Support Services Team

Dawn Hall

Business Support Services Manager

Alicia Mason

Business Support Administrator

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Ana Fearn

Apprentice Business Support Administrator

Cheryl McDougall

Business Support Administrator

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Chris Moore

Business Support Adviser

Chris Page

Business Support Adviser

Darren Roberts

Business Support Project Manager

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Emma L. Hanger

Business Support Administrator

Felicity Clayton

Business Support Project Manager

Graham Wickenden

Business Support Adviser

Harry Booth

Business Support Adviser

Joshua Elliott-Shircore

Assistant Business Support Project Manager

Katheryn Gregory

Business Support Project Manager

Lianne Emery

Business Support Adviser

Lucy Abbott

Assistant Business Support Project Manager

Richard Wright

Business Support Adviser

Samantha Moor

Assistant Business Support Project Manager

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Sarah Hartley

Business Support Adviser

Stacey Middlewood

Business Support Adviser

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Tracy Fairbank

Business Support Adviser

Trevor Douglas

Business Support Adviser

Kate Capes

Assistant Business Support Project Manager - The Supply Chain Network

Business Support Services Case Studies

Stonehills Farm Pantry: A Successful Farm Diversification Project

A Bridlington-based farm has successfully diversified its business and increased its profitability after receiving a grant of £17,200 with the support of...
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Fledgling business opens its first high street branch with the support of Invest East Yorkshire 

Go Cruise & Travel has opened its first high street branch in Goole, thanks to the support of Invest East Yorkshire’s Business...

Invest East Yorkshire helps Luke discover the recipe for success

Discover how Invest East Yorkshire helped Luke's Bakery in Brough double its production and sales through grant funding and business support....