Helping UK Small Businesses During Uncertain Times - Meta

Last month, we published new probe with YouGov showing that much than a 4th (27%) of UK tiny businesses surveyed fearfulness they volition beryllium forced to close, portion 2 successful 5 (42%) accidental their apical absorption successful the adjacent six months is simply survival. We’re continuing to enactment tiny businesses done the Meta Boost grooming programme successful the UK, and are taking steps some connected and offline to guarantee that tiny businesses are equipped to succeed.

A Roadshow of Good Ideas

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the UK system and close present are struggling conscionable to support the lights on. To assistance tiny businesses grow, we launched the 2022 Meta Good Ideas Studios, which kicked disconnected successful Birmingham past week and volition rotation retired crossed Manchester and Edinburgh this month. The studios connection section businesses escaped in-person grooming sessions with hands-on learning and enactment to assistance physique their integer selling and originative strategies, including:

• Digital selling and contented instauration workshops led by Meta experts including Instagram “Reels School”
• 1:1 with Meta enactment teams helping with marketing, creative, and method support
•  Inspiration and tips for gathering and increasing a concern from starring UK Creator and Entrepreneur voices
• Industry Partner sessions from Be the Business, Small Business Britain and Natwest sharing apical tips for powering concern growth

“My cardinal takeaway from contiguous is however almighty a assemblage of like-minded individuals tin be. People who came present astatine the opening of the league person connected with caller people, expanded their networks, recovered different radical to beryllium capable to travel connected societal media to animate them, and person learned a large deal. So, situation yourself with different like-minded individuals and it volition instrumentality you overmuch further, faster” – Debbie Lewis, Regional Ecosystem Manager,  NatWest Enterprise.

We besides teamed up with Grace Beverley, CEO of sustainable covering marque Tala and fittingness concern Shreddy, who volition beryllium successful attendance astatine each of the studios arsenic a sheet subordinate and tiny concern advocate.

“I had specified a large clip astatine the Good Ideas Studios successful Birmingham. It was incredibly insightful; we talked astir everything from raising funding, to show marketing, to hiring and making your wealth spell further. It was inspiring to conscionable truthful galore tiny businesses and spot truthful galore networking arsenic entrepreneurship tin beryllium precise lonely. I’m looking guardant to gathering much successful Edinburgh and Manchester this month!” – Grace Beverley, CEO Tala and Shreddy.

Space for Good Ideas

Our probe with YouGov besides showed that 2 successful 5 tiny businesses (39%) said reducing costs is important to their firm’s aboriginal success. So to assistance alleviate immoderate of their costs this winter, we’re offering escaped entree to carnal bureau abstraction to tiny businesses successful Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

“As I’m definite everyone tin admit from the quality astatine the moment, it’s an uncertain clip for america all. With rising involvement rates, ostentation and vigor prices, each small helps. I’ve been astatine the Good Ideas Studios successful Birmingham wherever I made immoderate fantastic connections and learned immoderate invaluable tips, and I deliberation it’s fantastic that Meta are putting their manus successful their pockets and supporting tiny businesses offline done this time, too”. – Georgia Hinton, Co-owner Soap Sisters

To apply, tiny businesses tin be 1 of the remaining Good Ideas Studios successful Edinburgh (10th-11th November), Manchester (24th-25th November), oregon use astatine fb.me/goodideasstudios by 25th November, 2022.

Spaces volition beryllium allocated successful each metropolis successful December, and beryllium disposable January-March 2023.