Enterprise Hub Consultant Support

Tender description

Enterprise Hub (EH) is a comprehensive entrepreneurship promotion and business support programme, which will foster the creation of new enterprises from pre start to early stage businesses. Providing assistance to 6360 potential-entrepreneurs and helping create 1272 new business ventures. The Enterprise Hub will reach and provide high quality business brokerage and business support services to a diverse customer profile e.g. graduate, female and BME would be entrepreneurs; resulting in the creation of high value SMEs and social businesses across all sectors and providing a simplified route for customers to access the support when and how they need it. The Enterprise Hub is a consortium of partner organisations of which The Women's Organisation is one. We are seeking delivery sub -contractors to support the engagement of women to the programme and provide start -up enterprise support services. The target beneficiary group are women who face a range of barriers to enterprise e.g. low confidence and self-esteem; unemployment, unstable or temporary employment; low educational qualifications; lone parent status; benefit dependency; ex offender status; lack of access to finance and networks; credit rationing; age. The complex nature of exclusion and discrimination that women face requires additional investment to equalise opportunity in starting their own business. We are seeking providers to engage with and develop initial entrepreneurial aspirations with women from the following demographic profiles in Liverpool City Region: • BME groups • Disabled women • Young women / NEET young people • Long term unemployed women • Lone parents • Women returners to the labour market • Older women • Women in receipt of benefits • People with language, literacy or numeracy issues • Parents and carers • Those women with limited access to public transport or living in deprived wards • Any woman who is experiencing social exclusion from mainstream service provision as a result of their personal circumstances The Contract will be part funded by the European Union - European Regional Development Fund.