Belfast: City for Growth

Growing your business in Belfast
How to register for business support
Mentoring support for business
Digital Transformation Flexible Fund
Green Tourism Award
Business support case study

Growing your business in Belfast

If you have an established business and need specific help with growth, we offer a broad range of support.
- mentoring and assistance in key business areas
- help with exploring new customer markets
- networking connections
- tendering advice and guidance, and
- general support and information on business growth
- business reviews and help to implement a plan for growth
- workshops and networking events
How to register for business support

Complete our business registration form on Go Succeed.

Complete our registration form (link opens in new window)

For more information, contact our Economic Development Unit by email economicdevelopment@belfastcity.gov.uk or call 028 9027 0482.
Mentoring support for business

Our mentors can support you in areas including:
- business planning, improvement and efficiency
- digital technology including advice on website development, paid advertising and customer relationship management export development
- market intelligence and analysis of emerging market opportunities
- marketing and social media
- people and human resource management, including hiring new staff
- product or process development and commercialisation
- sales development
Digital Transformation Flexible Fund

The Digital Transformation Flexible Fund (DTFF) can offer eligible businesses and social enterprises help to fund digital transformation projects.

To read funding eligibility, go to DTFF (link opens in new window).
Green Tourism Award

The Green Tourism Award is a world-wide sustainable certification programme. Belfast-based tourism and hospitality businesses can apply for gold, silver or bronze accreditation for their efforts to meet best practice standards in sustainability.

For information on the Green Tourism scheme, go to Green Tourism (link opens in a new window).
Business support case study

Getting access to specialist mentoring, advice and workshops is instrumental when you're growing your business and networks.

7th Dimension

7th Dimension explains how they benefitted from our business support. The video plays for one minute and 38 seconds.

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