Hello and welcome to the October edition of Warwickshire Means Business.

 

This month we bring the very welcome news that the Business Growth Warwickshire programme, with its various strands of support, has been extended for another year. The programme has already supported numerous businesses around the county. In this edition we report on some of those, so please do follow the links in the articles and see if we can help your business.

 

We hear how SMEs in Nuneaton and Bidford-on-Avon are growing following support from the Warwickshire Resilience and Growth Programme; how a hospitality company with outlets around the county has benefited from the Business Ready programme; and how Project Warwickshire has supported a North Warwickshire vineyard to move to the next level of growth.

 

Turning to skills support, the excellent work of Fay Winterburn and her team at Warwickshire Skills Hub continues apace. We hear how a number of schools in Atherstone have recruited talented young teachers with crucial funding from the County Council’s Apprenticeship Levy scheme.

 

Warwickshire’s diverse and vibrant hospitality sector has been shown at its best in recent months and was much appreciated by visitors to the Lloyds Tour of Britain in September. The wonderful enterprise, innovation and skills that underpin that sector in our county came together recently for the very successful Hospitality Hook up.

Our Warwickshire Women in Engineering 2025 series continues with a fascinating interview with Suzie Siddall, owner of Opus International Products in Leamington Spa, who took the “hands on” rather than university route to a successful career in engineering.

 

As always we bring comprehensive round-ups of Upcoming Events and latest local News-in-Brief and all the articles contain links to take you directly to more information about available business support. Please get in touch if any of the wide range of support schemes available could benefit you.