Accelerated Growth Programme

What is the Accelerated Growth Programme?

The Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme (AGP) offers individual support to high growth pre revenue and SME businesses. It is delivered by a team of highly experienced and proven high growth entrepreneurs, based on the philosophy that the best people to advise entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs. The Business Wales Accelerated Growth Programme is an elite and bespoke Programme that seeks to identify ambitious businesses and entrepreneurs and provide an ecosystem of support to help them unlock their growth potential.

The programme offers one to one coaching and mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs, high quality professional advisory services from the private sector, a range of workshops and master classes on key issues facing high growth businesses, peer to peer networking and trading and access to a range of Gold Partners who are all similarly committed to supporting high growth businesses. 

The programme offers one to one coaching and mentoring from experienced entrepreneurs, high quality professional advisory services from the private sector, a range of workshops and master classes on key issues facing high growth businesses, peer to peer networking and trading and access to a range of Gold Partners who are all similarly committed to supporting high growth businesses. 

Who is the programme for?

The Accelerating Growth Programme is aimed at owner/managers and MD’s of Invest NI SME customers.

To participate in the programme businesses should have:

• A desire to refocus their business and embrace change.
• The ability to commit time and resources to the programme.
• Ideally turnover of less than £1m.
• A recent record of profitable trading.
• Potential for growth, particularly export growth.

How will my business benefit?

Setting a clear direction: The Accelerating Growth Programme will help you to think clearly about where you want your business to be and to establish a clear direction.

Mentoring your growth: The business mentoring you receive during the programme will help you feel more confident about the decisions you make and build your development actions into a plan to take your business forward.

Expanding your knowledge: The workshops will focus on key areas for business success helping increase your knowledge to achieve results quicker.