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The Leading Growth project is receiving up to 557 000 GBP of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The department for communities and local government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the managing authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding The Leading Growth project is receiving up to 557 000 GBP of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The department for communities and local government (and in London the intermediate body Greater London Authority) is the managing authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helps local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding The Leading Growth project is aimed at SMEs based predominately in the Tees Valley. The concept of the programme is to support the owner-managers of these SMEs to address the leadership challenges they encounter and will help to develop and strengthen leadership skills and promote growth in the business. It will: — increase the growth capacity of Tees Valley SMEs providing a response to barriers to growth and supporting the development of new products and processes, — support businesses which are: at a growth/development crossroads; ready to move to the next stage of growth and investment; and actively wanting to make changes within their companies. The project will deliver two distinct but inter-related development initiatives /support streams: 1— leading growth: 6 months advice, consultancy, mentorship and peer to peer development interventions delivered to small groups of SME owner-managers with the potential and a commitment to grow, but which lack the internal capacity to respond to growth opportunities, 2— management catalyst: operating alongside Leading Growth, this 3 months programme supports lower level managers, assisting the development of in company systems /processes to allow owner-managers to focus on growth. Experienced business coaches are required to join a panel to support both the leading growth and management catalyst development programmes by providing one-to-one coaching to the SMEs on the courses. Delegates have access to 5 hours’ worth of coaching on the programme over four sessions. An initial 1 ½ hour face-to-face session is followed by 2 x 1 hour of face-to-face or telephone coaching to used at the convenience as agreed between delegate and coach.