Liverpool City Region Local Growth Hub Broker Partners

Descriptions

Growth Platform wishes to engage Brokerage Partners covering each of the 6 Local Authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. In addition, we are seeking a specialist broker to engage harder to reach groups including women, BAME groups and social economy businesses across the City Region. Therefore, there are a total of 7 'Lots' that suppliers can bid for; •Lot 1 Halton •Lot 2 Knowsley •Lot 3 Liverpool •Lot 4 Sefton •Lot 5 St Helens •Lot 6 Wirral •Lot 7 Harder to Reach Groups Local Growth Hub Brokerage Partners have become the primary access point for signposting and brokerage to a wide range of local and national business support services & programmes. The Growth Platform website is kept up to date with these service & programmes and should be used as a resource by Local Growth Hub Broker Partners. The focus for the Local Growth Hub Partner delivery for 2022 - 23 is to provide the offer below to ensure network consistency and maintain the Growth Hub guiding principles: •Provide all businesses across the LCR with access to advice and support via a free, impartial single point of contact •Offer a light touch triage, medium intensity diagnostic and signposting service to ensure that all businesses, no matter their size or sector, can discover what support is available to them •Refer into Growth Platform Programmes such as the High Growth ERDF Programme, New Markets 2, Gather provision, Finance Hub etc. •Link to and promote Growth Platform, local and national business support provision, from the public, private and third sector •Collaboration with local delivery and brokerage partners •Marketing of the Local Growth Hub and its services •Maintain accurate and comprehensive records on the Growth Platform CRM Portal in 'real time' •Provide Growth Platform with ad hoc intelligence on new and emerging economic opportunities and shocks (see also below on Regional Intelligence Gathering)