RiDO’s team of knowledgeable and experienced advisors is here to help your business develop and grow.
We provide access to free, impartial, expert business advice and support to help your business achieve its goals. It’s a bespoke service with assistance tailored to meet your needs.
Our team provides a wealth of knowledge and experience across a wide range of business topics for you to call upon, from funding, skills and productivity to public sector tendering and innovation projects, or sourcing your next property.
We are well connected in the region to link you into further support from a wide range of partner organisations, to ensure the best service possible is offered.
Get in touch to find out how our advisory team can help.
How can we help?
Grants and funding opportunities
Find out about Productivity and Low Carbon grants, along with other funding sources to help your business grow.
Increase skills in your workforce
Great people make great businesses. Our advisors can help your business to develop, retain and recruit people.
Boosting the high street
Our advisors can help you find your way through recent economic shocks and look to the future, developing new customers and sales channels.
Innovate products and services
Benefit from funded innovation support from our regional universities through the South Yorkshire Innovation Programme.
Develop growth strategies
Our advisors can work with your management team to develop strategies for growth and plan for key initiatives such as Lean, ISO or CE Marking.
Finding a property
We can help you find the right commercial premises for your business no matter what the size, with our free property search service.
Rotherham business grants
A range of grant funding opportunities are currently available for Small to Medium Sized businesses (SMEs) in Rotherham, part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).
For all grants, applicants should contact us to discuss eligibility and the application process. Applications will be assessed on a first come, first served basis, subject to funding availability. Business advisory support is provided free of charge to assist businesses through the application process.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) is a four-year UK Government funding stream that replaces European Structural and Investment Funds. South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) will administer UKSPF for South Yorkshire’s four local authority areas. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK, investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit GOV.UK: UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus
Business Productivity Grants
The project aims to support Small to Medium Sized businesses (SMEs) in South Yorkshire to improve their productivity and digital innovation through the provision of capital or revenue grant, and to identify and address their business productivity challenges.
For businesses in Rotherham, a Key Account Manager will work with you to guide you through the application process, with an open call for applications.
The grant will part-fund interventions, with the business making up the rest of the funding itself. For projects costing between £5,000 and £24,999, you can apply for a 50% grant contribution of up to £12,500. There must be clearly evidenced productivity improvements, prioritising investments that will have a positive impact on the creation of potential new employment opportunities.
Low Carbon GrantS
This project provides dedicated support and a source of funding for eligible businesses to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions across South Yorkshire. For Rotherham businesses, one-to-one support from a specialist advisor will guide you through the full process, including a free carbon survey to identify energy saving improvements before submitting a grant application.
The grant scheme enables businesses to apply for a financial contribution towards eligible costs of one or more energy-saving interventions. The grant will part-fund interventions, with the business making up the rest of the funding itself, for projects costing up to £24,999, you can apply for a 50% grant contribution of £12,500. For projects costing more than £25,000, you can apply for a grant contribution of between 10% and 50% of the project cost. The minimum grant you can apply for is £1,500 (for a project with a total cost £3,000).
Go4Growth - support to access public sector contracts
We’ve partnered with Go4Growth, an organisation that helps businesses and voluntary sector organisations to access public sector contracts.
The fully funded programme provides help and guidance to support organisations in a number of ways, including through a self-service software platform providing access to tools, support, training and guidance, along with virtual training events and 1-2-1 support and mentoring.
Businesses aspiring to do more work in the public sector through winning tenders are encouraged to get in touch to access the programme.
Business support for the High Street
As part of Rotherham’s commitment to the borough’s retail centres, business advice is available for retail and high street businesses provided by RiDO’s advisory team.
Advisors are able to cover a wide range of topics, from helping acquire new customers and develop digital sales and marketing channels, to navigating the current economic climate, growing the business and upskilling the workforce.
To discuss how we can help, please get in touch using the form below, we look forward to hearing from you.,
Get in touch to find out how we can help your business.
Call us on 01709 331133 or simply fill in our form and we will get back to you.
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