The Creative Quarter will deliver a series of workshops and mentoring opportunities to Nottingham's retail, hospitality, leisure and personal services businesses in the run up to Christmas, thanks to the Reopening High Streets Safely Fund, provided by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and The Government.
This COVID-specific business support programme will focus on business resilience, redesign and refocusing with an aim to helping our city's high street move into winter with greater confidence. Eligible businesses will be:
- An SME (small to medium sized business)
- Must be facing the public realm
- Must be operating alongside public spaces (i.e not in a privately-owned shopping centre)
- Must be on a high street within Nottingham City Centre (ie Hockley, Lace Market, Derby Road etc), or neighbourhood centre (ie; Sherwood, Hyson Green etc).
- Must have customers (active and trading)
BOOK ONTO OUR UPCOMING EVENTS
The Creative Quarter will be running the following events over the next 6 weeks, and Nottingham's retail, leisure, hospitality and personal services businesses are invited to book onto as many as might be helpful for their business.
- THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Building Organisational Resilience for COVID19 Recovery and Beyond
Register for this event - MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER, 5pm - 8pm
High Street Business Survival
Register for this event - THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER, 9.30am - 12.30pm
The Emotionally Intelligent Organisation
Register for this event - MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 5pm - 6.30pm
COVID-19 Operating Guidelines and Guidance
Register for this event - TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Working with others for survival and success: Collaboration & Co-operation
Register for this event - THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER, 9.30am - 12.30pm
Change agility: How to create and lead a change agile organisation
Register for this event - THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 5pm - 8pm
Act, Adapt, Collaborate. What high street businesses can do now
Register for this event
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN MENTORING
We ran our first Meet the Mentor event on Tuesday 27 October at 9.30am. Don't worry if you missed it! We've still got a free slots for mentoring available, so complete the form and we'll get back in touch as with the next steps.
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ABOUT OUR MENTORS
If you are unsure whether your business is eligible, please complete the form anyway and one of our team will get back to you to discuss your options.
Please note, registering your interest in this programme does not guarantee we will be able to offer you mentoring support, but you are still able to access all online events.
