Existing businesses
If you are thinking about growing your business in South Tyneside then you're certainly not alone.
It's an exciting time for any business, especially in South Tyneside, but growth is something that comes with its challenges as well as its opportunities.
We can help prepare you for the challenges and plan for the future. It's about finding the right way to grow your business as well as the right time to grow and that's something only you can decide.
Why grow in South Tyneside?
There are all sorts of reasons why businesses plan for growth in South Tyneside. What's right for one business might be very different to what's right for another business. What matters most is your objectives for your business - this gives everything a clear focus and sense of direction as you move forward.
- Meet your customers' needs
- Introduce new products or services
- Stay ahead of the competition
- Look for new challenges
- Improve profitability of your business
What do you need to think about?
If you're growing your business in South Tyneside the answer is probably everything. Below are some of the themes and issues that we find often emerge when talking to business owners and managers based in South Tyneside as they go through growth phases. If any of them sound familiar why not get in touch with our team and see how we can help you put your plans into practice?
- Staying in control
- Access to information
- Taking a long term view
- Managing change within your business
Sometimes it helps to get an external view, we are never going to know your business as well as you do, but we do understand business and that's where we can help. Having the benefit of a different perspective we can add real value to your plans, giving you information and advice on key areas and helping you make the right decisions at the right time.
How we can help
The Council's Economic Growth Team offer a range of services to businesses that are looking to expand, as well as assisting business that are considering relocating into South Tyneside.
If you're an existing business in South Tyneside with expansion plans or ideas, then view the services we can offer below. Alternatively, please get in touch with us, in confidence, to find out how we can help you.
Financial assistance
The Council can advise on the potential sources of financial assistance to help businesses that are planning expansion projects or considering locating to South Tyneside.
Identifying suitable premises and land
As well as having local knowledge of the area, the Council can provide you with information on properties and employment land available through private agents and its own commercial property portfolio.
We can provide you with a tailored listing of properties available, as well as arranging viewings on your behalf.
For more information please visit Land and premises
Recruitment & training
The Council can play a co-ordination and supporting role in recruiting the right people for your business. We can potentially help companies who are taking on new staff with pre-employment training, recruitment and advertising of vacancies.
The Council can provide support to organisations that are making redundancies by bringing together agencies that specialise in careers advice.
Support with bidding for public sector contracts
The Council can support businesses to bid for public sector contracts through its Bid Box project. The project offers an on line resource giving businesses access to hundreds of public sector contracts, as well as helping companies to understand the process for bidding for public sector contracts, and how to complete a successful bid.
Business Forum
The South Tyneside Business Forum is the Business Champion of the area. Registration is free and open to any business in South Tyneside. Members benefit from gaining knowledge and information on what's important to business locally, having their say on local issues, access greater support from agencies and other businesses, benefit from collaboration and networking opportunities.
The Forum holds regular meetings and events, ranging from inter-trading business fairs, to open forum meetings to an annual Business Dinner. It also runs sector groups in Construction and Retail & Tourism, specialising in issues relating to these sectors, and has a strategic partnership with the South Tyneside Business Network to offer regular networking meetings.
For more information please visit South Tyneside Business Forum
Manufacturing Forum
The Manufacturing Forum was set up to enable manufacturing companies in South Tyneside to work together to resolve common issues. The Forum has 3 primary concerns:
- Information Hub - collating and distributing information
- Collaboration - raising common issues
- Skills - encouraging involvement with Schools, Colleges, Universities and Training Organisations.
For more information please visit South Tyneside Manufacturing Forum
