Become a
support provider
Can you help us to support London’s small businesses?
If you are passionate about helping London’s small businesses, we want to hear from you.
Become a support provider on Grow London Local and share your expertise with London’s one million small business owners. We promote your programmes, events, services and training courses via this website and our in-person business support team.
Your business expertise can make a difference!
Why become a support provider
London entrepreneurs are eager to grow, learn or set up new businesses. Your expertise is invaluable in helping these SMEs thrive and become more resilient, with lots of exciting opportunities for your own organisation.
Become a support provider on Grow London Local and you could:
- Find new clients.
- Boost your online profile.
- Access speaker opportunities.
- Build your reputation as an expert in your field.
- Attend Grow London Local community events.
- Receive industry news and insights via our newsletters.
Our most sought-after services
Small businesses in London are currently seeking support in these areas. Can you help?
Finance
London’s SMEs are regularly looking to improve their financial acumen, understand funding options, and access finance. Can you help?
Marketing and sales
Become a support provider on Grow London Local if you can help with branding, digital marketing, social media, pricing, e-commerce or retail selling.
Starting up
Get in touch if you can help entrepreneurs with business planning, market research, competitor analysis, choosing a legal structure, or business registration.
Legal
Founders want to know more about employment law, insurance, lease agreements, intellectual property and international trade regulations.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing businesses are seeking help with product and process innovation, digital transformation, supply chain optimisation and workforce development.
Support for disabled founders
If you offer tailored support to people that consider themselves to be neurodivergent, or that have any physical or mental health conditions, we want to work with you.
Meet one of our support providers
Able Futures delivers a nine-month mental health support programme on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions. Facilitated by fully trained mental health professionals, it provides SMEs with guidance on how to support mental health in the workplace.
“Through Grow London Local, we’ve met so many SMEs from all walks of life. I think the collaboration has really brought to light the challenges that small businesses face on a daily basis. ” Debbie Burns, business account manager at Able Futures.
By joining Grow London Local as a support provider, you can help make a difference to small businesses like Able Futures.
FAQs for prospective providers
A Grow London Local support provider is an organisation that offers support to London-based small businesses from all sectors and across all stages of business.
This includes skills providers, who are UKPRN-registered, funded by the Adult Skills Fund (ASF) or Department of Education (DofE).
If you’re passionate about helping London’s small businesses, we’d love to work with you. Once registered, we identify how we may be able to promote your support offerings via our in-person and digital services.
If you’d like to promote your support through Grow London Local, let us know by completing an expression of interest form.
If your support matches the needs of London’s SMEs, you will be invited to complete the rest of the registration process. You are then assigned a dedicated relationship manager and given access to the provider portal, where you can upload details of your support offerings. We then promote these to small businesses across London.
By becoming a support provider on Grow London Local you could:
- Find new clients.
- Boost your online profile.
- Access speaker opportunities.
- Build your reputation as an expert in your field.
- Attend Grow London Local community events.
- Receive industry news and insights via our newsletters.
As a support provider, you get access to our self-serve provider portal where you can add and manage all of your support offerings, including programmes, events, services, training courses, offers and Bootcamps. These will then be published on the Grow London Local website. Additionally, we also promote your support offerings via our in-person business support service.
To date, we’ve helped thousands of small businesses across London. Regardless of sector, stage of business, legal entity or what challenges they’re facing – we’re here to help.
For more information about the businesses we’ve supported so far, check out our Impact and Borough Reports: Our results - London & Partners - Telling London’s story brilliantly
You can also hear from some of the small business owners themselves.
From business mentors to marketing experts, financial advisers to HR professionals, we’re working with hundreds of private and public sector support providers, to help London’s small businesses to thrive.
You can view current support providers on our website. For more information about the providers we’ve worked with so far, you can also read our Impact and Borough Reports.
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Meet the team
Grow London Local has a team of dedicated relationship managers, here to help you support London’s small businesses.
Once registered on the provider portal, you'll be contacted by one of our team who will be your relationship manager.
We look forward to welcoming you to our community of support providers at Grow London Local.