Watson & Co. Chartered Marketing Chartered Marketer Christine Watson getting set to support new businesses across Belfast city with specialist marketing mentoring support

Watson & Co.Chartered Marketing Chartered Marketer Christine Watson is getting ready to support new businesses across Belfast city with specialist marketing mentoring support.

The business support programme: Kick Start is managed by Enterprise Northern Ireland in association with local enterprise agencies across the Belfast destination and Deirdre Fitzpatrick Associates. It is funded by Belfast City Council, Invest Northern Ireland and the European Regional Development Fund under the Investment for Growth & Jobs Northern Ireland (2014-2020) Programme.

The Kick Start programme offers businesses access to free mentoring, training and a financial incentive.  Support will be dependent on the growth potential of the business to recruit employees.

About the Kick Start programme

Belfast city council are offering new businesses across Belfast an extra boost of business advice and practical support to help them kick-start their business.

This programme offers:

• one-to-one mentoring
• access to workshops
• incentives

Watson & Co. Chartered Marketing Chartered Marketer: Christine is available to offer services in the areas of marketing, digital marketing, social media marketing and integrated marketing.

How to apply?

To apply, your business must be in the Belfast City Council area and operating for less than two years.

To apply organisation’s need to complete the business registration form and quote ‘Kick Start’ in the text box.

For More information:

Contact the Economic Development Unit on 028 9027 0482 or email economicdevelopment@belfastcity.gov.uk to find out more about the Kick Start programme.

This programme is part funded by Invest Northern Ireland and the European Regional Development Fund under the Investment for Growth and Jobs Northern Ireland (2014-2020) Programme.

To find out more about Enterprise Northern Ireland visit: Enterprise NI

To find out more about the financial incentives on offer visit: Belfast City Council

Councils and other organisations right across Northern Ireland (and beyond) offer a range of tailor-made mentoring support free to local businesses. Support is generally in business development areas such as marketing, digital marketing, finance and more. To discover the mentoring opportunities available to organisations in Northern Ireland you can visit our blog where we, in support of our next generation of entrepreneurs and local indigenous businesses, are trying to keep a useful listing.