Belfast City Council has made its existing business support programmes available online for free, to help businesses navigate the ‘new normal’ due to COVID-19.
Help includes virtual mentoring, podcasts and downloadable resources offering practical guidance, including building personal resilience and leading others in crisis situations.
There will also be webinar workshops involving case studies of local businesses.
This will include a session on 30 April with NI Scrubs, a group of hundreds of volunteers across Northern Ireland who have already made thousands of scrubs for healthcare workers.
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Chairman of the council’s City Growth and Regeneration Committee, Councillor Ryan Murphy said: “It’s evident that there’s a real appetite and need for advice, guidance and support among Belfast’s business community during these highly challenging times.
“Our SMEs and entrepreneurs are vital to our city’s success, so we’ve been focusing on understanding their current needs to develop tailored new areas of virtual support including building a digital business, winning business from ongoing procurement opportunities – and of course planning for recovery.
“We’re encouraging businesses to register with us so that we can identify what support they need and put in place a range of mentoring and advice that’s going to be of most value to them. Our priority is helping them to survive the current situation and helping them to prepare for growth mode again once we’re out the other side of this pandemic.”
To register for support, go to www.belfastcity.gov.uk/businessadvice
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Source: Written from press release
