Liverpool City Region Local Growth Hub Broker Partners

Description

Growth Platform wishes to engage Brokerage Partners covering each of the 6 Local Authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral.  In addition, we are seeking a specialist broker to engage harder to reach groups including women, BAME groups and social economy businesses across the City Region.  Therefore, there are a total of 7 'Lots' that suppliers can bid for;

•	Lot 1 Halton
•	Lot 2 Knowsley
•	Lot 3 Liverpool
•	Lot 4 Sefton
•	Lot 5 St Helens
•	Lot 6 Wirral
•	Lot 7 Harder to Reach Groups

Local Growth Hub Brokerage Partners have become the primary access point for signposting and brokerage to a wide range of local and national business support services & programmes.  The Growth Platform website is kept up to date with these service & programmes and should be used as a resource by Local Growth Hub Broker Partners. 

The focus for the Local Growth Hub Partner delivery for 2022 - 23 is to provide the offer below to ensure network consistency and maintain the Growth Hub guiding principles:

•	Provide all businesses across the LCR with access to advice and support via a free, impartial single point of contact
•	Offer a light touch triage, medium intensity diagnostic and signposting service to ensure that all businesses, no matter their size or sector, can discover what support is available to them
•	Refer into Growth Platform Programmes such as the High Growth ERDF Programme, New Markets 2, Gather provision, Finance Hub etc.
•	Link to and promote Growth Platform, local and national business support provision, from the public, private and third sector
•	Collaboration with local delivery and brokerage partners
•	Marketing of the Local Growth Hub and its services
•	Maintain accurate and comprehensive records on the Growth Platform CRM Portal in 'real time'
•	Provide Growth Platform with ad hoc intelligence on new and emerging economic opportunities and shocks (see also below on Regional Intelligence Gathering)