Free business support for Somerset businesses
Local and national partners have offered free advice to Somerset firms on growth, premises and skills. Ask which programmes are open now.
Somerset 3D regularly pointed owners to free advice covering growth, premises, recruitment and exporting. Delivery sat with the county and district councils of the time, the Heart of the South West partners, chambers of commerce and central government teams such as the Department for International Trade, now the Department for Business and Trade.
The useful part of that offer was coordination. A firm that needed a yard near the M5, an introduction to a Hinkley buyer and a conversation about apprenticeships should not have had to discover three separate front doors.
Because publicly funded programmes are rebidded, this archive item is a record of the approach rather than a live application window. Tell us the size of the business and the decision you are trying to make, and we will say which current desk can help.