NatWest hosts free event to help South West entrepreneurs scale up their business

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Peter Davison

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Natwest is hosting a free Discovery Session for entrepreneurs and business owners at its Bristol Entrepreneur Accelerator Hub next week.

Running as part of a series with further sessions planned for January and February, those interested in finding out more about the December session on Wednesday, December 13 are invited to book a free ticket before spots run out.

The NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator programme is a fully funded support initiative designed to help local businesses to scale and grow.

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Successful applicants benefit from expert advice and guidance from dedicated acceleration managers as well as full use of the Hub’s modern co-working spaces in the city centre of Bristol, access to a calendar of networking events, one-to-one coaching, and the opportunity to join a community of like-minded peers, specialists, mentors and NatWest colleagues.

The Discovery session will also provide an opportunity to meet with entrepreneurs currently on the Accelerator programme.

Applications for the March 2024 cohort are currently open and will close on February 16. To apply to their first programme, entrepreneurs do not need to be NatWest customers.

Since its launch, the NatWest Accelerator Hub has supported hundreds of businesses across the Southwest.

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Elly Rowley, regional ecosystem manager at NatWest said: “We are long-standing supporters of local business and entrepreneurs in the region. From financial services to hospitality, we have the tools to help local business owners grow, scale and succeed.

“As champions of entrepreneurial talent, we look forward to welcoming the next cohort of local entrepreneurs and helping bright ideas evolve to become the cornerstones of the local business community."

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.