Start Up Business 2 Day Bootcamp
This fully funded 2-day business bootcamp is designed to give a solid foundation to developing a successful business that focuses on helping the local community, or creating a positive social or environmental impact. The sessions, tailored for early stage and start up businesses, will also help you to identify your business mission and increase the positive impact you have through your work.
The bootcamp is designed to help you grow in confidence and knowledge by expanding your network, and fostering new partnerships and collaborations that will help to make your business thrive.
Sessions will cover:
- Defining your vision, mission and purpose
- Testing your idea and understanding your market
- Money matters : pricing your product or service, managing a budget and accessing funding
- Marketing basics - how to tell your story to reach more customers
- Measuring the social and environmental impact of your business
- Next steps - how to achieve sustainable growth
There will also be opportunities to hear the inspirational stories of local impact organisations and businesses, and an enterprise clinic to get 1-1 advice and ask questions specific to your business.
Lunches, teas & coffees and snacks will be provided by Waste2Taste.
Who is it for?
This bootcamp is for early stage businesses that have incorporated or registered in the last 12 months. You may have started a business from home during the pandemic, or created a trading charity or social enterprise to help your local community through the lockdowns.
If you are unsure, or would like to know more about this fully funded support, please email [email protected].
How will the Bootcamp work?
Spaces are limited in order to maximise the benefit for those participating. Applicants will be assessed for suitability and compatibility. Admission is by application to check eligibility, and you will be notified as to whether you application was successful or not.
Registration for this Business Bootcamp closes at 5pm on Friday 29th April 2022.
Testimonials from previous Bootcamp attendees
Hannah Bironzo - The Gypsy Baker :
'I feel grateful to have been offered a place on this fabulous programme where I met incredible speakers, inspiring mentors and peers, and picked up brilliant tips and fresh ideas about how to adopt a purposeful approach to business.'
Lorna - OACMA:
'I would definitely recommend this 2 day business Bootcamp. Finding out more about measuring impact was particularly interesting and useful.'
About eScalate
eScalate, is a three-year project, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which runs until September 2022 to support Social Enterprises, social entrepreneurs, enterprising charities and purposeful businesses in Oxfordshire. Support includes one to ones, workshops and peer support sessions.
For more information about the eScalate programme, visit www.oxfordshirelep.com/escalate
Please note that this event is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and is delivered as part of the eScalate programme to help SMEs. By engaging in this programme you are being offered assistance under the De Minimis regulation which allows a company to receive up to but not exceeding €200,000 of public funding (at the applicable exchange rate) of De Minimis aid over a rolling three-tax year fiscal period. This De Minimis declaration does not cover undertakings engaged in: the primary production of agricultural goods and fisheries/aquaculture, road freight, services of general economic interest and export related activities and activities favouring domestic over imported goods. Please note, support cannot be given to undertakings (businesses) in difficulty. In order to receive support from this programme, you will be required to complete an application form and other relevant documentation. If you need to check your current position for state aid please contact us. If you would like any further information on De Minimis aid and Special Drawing Rights (SDR) subsidies, please see the state aid page on the OxLEP Business website: