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BUSINESS

WALES

During 2016/17, Business in Focus and our consortium partners
undertook a large scale, stringent recruitment programme
to build the team to deliver the demanding requirements
of the new Business Wales service to start-up and established
business clients.

With a healthy mix of made great strides meeting During this year the Business With a substantially new
long-standing experience the stringent compliance Wales delivery partners service and a new team, this
and new expertise, we have requirements of such an also delivered the Welsh was a challenging period for
a stronger team than ever important, public funded project. Government’s Growth and Business in Focus and we
before, with high quality teams The Business Wales workshop Prosperity Fund, making continue to build the service
of Advisers, Client Support programme proved popular available some £1.7 million for the benefit of businesses
and Administration personnel. with more than 330 events in grant funds to 103 growing in Wales. However, we also
The benefit to our clients is delivered to over 2,000 businesses, potentially creating found the time to lead the
clear, with recent feedback attendees, and the mentoring or safeguarding 575 jobs proposal for the Wrexham
from a survey carried out service, which augments the across Wales. With match Entrepreneurship Hub, a new
by our customer, Welsh delivery of business advice over funding provided by the Business Wales incubation
Government, showing good the longer term, resulted in businesses themselves, this service which will open its
results for the quality and the launch and hosting of the meant a total investment in doors to new entrepreneurs
impact of the advice given National Mentoring Awards SME growth of a minimum early in 2018.
to clients from the Core and in Cardiff. £3.4 million.
Growth services. We have also

81 983 5,645 £4,379,510

Number of new Employment increase Businesses provided with Investment in
growth enterprises in supported enterprises information & signposting new enterprise

April 2016-March 2017