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Changes to Help to Grow: Digital
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) have announced some key improvements from the 25th July to the Help to Grow: Digital scheme, which will enable even more firms to benefit from the scheme
- From 25 July, they will expand eligibility for the Help to Grow: Digital scheme so that more businesses are able to take part by reducing the minimum number of employees the business must have from 5 to 1. This will mean the number of businesses able to apply is almost tripling in size, with up to 1.2 million UK businesses being eligible to access discounts worth up to £5,000 on approved software.
- Alongside this, they will also launch our expanded offer, adding e-Commerce software to support businesses to sell online and reach new markets. This includes helping them to manage their inventory, take payments and gather data and insights on customers' needs. Businesses which adopt e-Commerce software see on average a 7.5% increase in employee sales over 3 years.
Furthermore, the Help to Grow: Digital scheme will also support one-to-one advice for small and medium-size businesses on digital tech adoption. They will open for applications for advice platforms to partner with us from 25 July with the aim of the service being in place for SMEs later this year.
Help to Grow: Digital – one-to-one advice pilot terms and conditions - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
They have updated their communications toolkit to reflect these changes.
If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact the Help to Grow team at [email protected].
