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Business Support Agencies

Are you considering starting a new business in Oxfordshire or looking for support or advice to develop your existing business?

There is a wide range of independent business support services available in the county. Below is a signpost service to what is available for pre-start and small businesses. It is very much a work in progress and services are being developed and adjusted to suit the advice and support needs of new and aspiring business people in the county.

Please contact the service you think best suits your business. If you have questions you think we may be able to help with, please contact us.


Organisation Core service Target market / typical customer Additional information Access and locations Formal programmes / other services
Oxfordshire Business Enterprises
Contact: Lynette Riley
T: 01295 227082
E: lynette@oxonbe.co.uk
W: www.oxonbe.co.uk

OBE		 Free of charge face-to-face advice and mentoring Pre-start and early stage businesses and self-employed, any sector. Around 20 volunteer advisers. Local authority funded and hosted, with in-kind support from venues and others.
NFEA member.		 All Oxfordshire districts: Banbury, Berinsfield, Bicester (2 venues), Chipping Norton, Faringdon, Harwell, Oxford (Summertown and Woodside), Wantage, Witney. Start-up workshops to be introduced (under preparation)
Oxford Business Mentors
E:hello@oxfordbusinessmentors.org
W: www.oxfordbusinessmentors.org

OBM		 Mentoring Established businesses (more than 1 year in business), any sector 15 volunteer mentors, all are business owners. Mentors’ business premises around Oxfordshire  
Fredericks Foundation
Contact: Tim King
T: 01865 893383
E: tim@fredericksfoundation.net
W: www.fredericksoxfordshire.org

Fredericks		 Micro finance with business advice Anyone looking to start up in business who can’t obtain traditional finance. Additionally provide growth funding for existing businesses, with a track record also denied traditional funding Maximum start up funding £10k growth funding maximum £20k Client manager for Oxon is mobile and visits prospects once their business plan is in place Once business is established on going mentoring is available
Ethnic Minority Business Service
Contact:
T: 01865 727015
W:www.embs.org.uk


EMBS		 Our aim is to improve the economic situation of ethnic minority communities in Oxfordshire by skills enhancement through training, and by start-up and development of businesses owned by people from those communities. • Free information and advice to individuals, pre-start and established businesses
• Training in Basic Skills, Information Technology and Sewing		 See our website for up-to-date details Banbury and Oxford See our website for up-to-date details


There is also a wealth of advice from the national online Business Link service at www.businesslink.gov.uk and you can contact your local council’s economic development teams via their council websites
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