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# Businesses invited to apply for new growth programme
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/businesses-invited-to-apply-for-new-growth-programme/
- Published: 2024-11-17T08:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-11-14T08:17:51.000Z
- Description: Businesses across Staffordshire are being invited to apply for a new growth programme.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:53, News

BUSINESSES across Staffordshire are being invited to apply for a new growth programme.

The Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Growth Hub (SSGH) and Staffordshire County Council are delivering a fully-funded workshop through the FundingHero initiative.

Fifteen places are available for the three-hour session on 3rd December for small and medium businesses looking to raise between £100,000 and £3million of equity investment.

Growth hub manager Rachel Wood said:

> “Raising equity investment is vital to ensure we create the next generation of high growth businesses in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.  
>  
> “With this in mind we are reaching out to the region’s SMEs with the ambition to grow and scale up to support their investment readiness with FundingHero.  
>  
> “This is an exclusive opportunity designed to bring the bring some of the best support available to help our region’s successful businesses to grow and thrive.”

The deadline to apply [online](https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/Business/Staffordshire-means-Business/Investment-Readiness-Workshop.aspx?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk) is 18th November. For more details call 0300 111 8002 or visit [stokestaffsgrowthhub.co.uk](https://stokestaffsgrowthhub.co.uk/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).