UK Shared Prosperity Fund E22 Enterprise Infrastructure & Employment / Innovation business support programme

Aims

To set up and deliver an enterprise support programme that will unlock enterprise skills within the districts to ensure that South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse is a healthy and vibrant place, reduce social isolation and improve employment opportunities in areas of deprivation.

Objectives

Funding is available for an organisation or organisations to deliver a programme that will provide access to skills and knowledge for individuals or groups that will assist them to identify opportunities for self-employment or business creation. This should include sole traders providing services to the local area, social enterprises and co-ops that benefit the local community and opportunities for individuals to develop enterprise skills in areas of deprivation that could lead to self-employment.

Scope

The programme will offer a range of specialist support, including expert advice and guidance which helps residents to consider self-employment opportunities and provides them with a route to start or grow a business.

A focus of this procurement is to create purposeful businesses including social enterprises and co-ops that provide a benefit to communities in areas of multiple deprivation.