Support for Your Business

Supporting Torbay businesses and improving employment and training opportunities for Torbay residents, creating a vibrant and successful local economy.

Supporting business growth
Supporting enterprise and innovation
Helping people into work
Improving skills
Increasing business success rate

For information on the range of business, employment and training support available see our business support map, which outlines the range of support and training packages provided in Torbay by public sector organisations aiming to help businesses start up, develop and grow.

Here at the Torbay Development Agency we offer a full range of business support to help generate economic prosperity in the Bay bey helping businesses start up, develop and grow.

We cover everything from providing office space in our award winning Innovation Centres, to developing programmes that help to raise the skills, aspirations and productivity of Torbay.

More detailed information on business support initiatives is available below:

Business Boost : Supporting local businesses and helping them to grow is a key priority for Torbay and the Torbay Development Agency. The Torbay Development Agency has developed a series of business support programmes designed to equip local businesses with a greater understanding of business issues as well as to stimulate ideas for business improvement, development and growth.

Business Link: providing information, advice and support you need to start,run and grow a business. This service is impartial and our motivation is to provide practical solutions to customers and offer a fresh insight and an independent solution to their particular needs.

Employment & Skills Board: Established in early 2009 by the TDA, the Torbay and South Devon Employment and Skills Board (ESB) is an important new initiative which has been set up with a vision to raise the skills, aspirations and productivity of the Torbay and South Devon workforce and to support the growth of a vibrant and successful local economy.

Free access to thousands of UK-wide Government contracts: Businesses interested in supplying an the public sector can now access lower-value contracts across the UK for Free.

GrantNet: Torbay Development Agency subscribes to GRANTnet, a user-friendly service which helps businesses and community organisations identify potential sources of funding for specific projects. It contains the most comprehensive and up-to-date database of grants, loans and other initiatives operating in the UK.

Grants for Business Improvement: Variable grants to assist businesses to grow or safeguard jobs. Minimum grant £10,000 - Rate of eligibility subject to business sector and type of expenditure.

Room Bookings: Are you looking for a low cost, local venue for a meeting, seminar or special occasion? Torbay Council has a selection of varied and attractive venues around Torbay which are available to hire for meetings, parties, conferences and other events.

South West Innovation Centres: Starting or growing a business? We operate purpose-designed business incubator centres providing working space with a range of support services to help businesses develop and prosper. We currently have Innovation Centres in Ivybridge, Paignton and Torquay.

Strategic Investment Framework: (SIF) sets out the vision and strategy for supporting the enhancement of business support and developing an enterprise culture, particularly in deprived areas. Economic indicators show that Torbay's economy has not been developing at the same rate as other areas in the South West.

Torbay Business Forum: The Torbay Business Forum comprises a wide membership including representatives of local business bodies such as the Chambers of Commerce and Federation of Small Business, representatives of business sectors in Torbay including solicitors, accountants and surveyors, individual members whose business makes a significant contribution to the economy of Torbay.

Support for Your Business

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