Show me the money with Drew Currie

 Accessing Finance and Kickstart Your Venture

What is the workshop about?

This workshop empowers entrepreneurs to find funding, support and grants. In this workshop, we will look at:

• Exploring innovative ways to finance your venture
• Delivering market research for your potential venture
• Encouraging a growth mindset to drive innovation and success in the business
• Funding Strategies
• Commercialisation and Scaling-up e & building capacity
• Incorporating as a social enterprise to attract alternative partners & revenue streams
• Diversification, side hustles & exploring additional revenue streams
• Sources of business startup funding

Who is the workshop aimed at?

Aspiring entrepreneurs, side-hustlers, freelancers, entrepreneurs and business owners, looking for support from the West Midlands ecosystem.

How will attending this workshop benefit you?

• By the end of the workshop participants will have:
• Developed a better understanding of the free sources of funded support, grants and programmes
• Contacts to write effective bids
• Insights into forming successful consortiums, developing strategic partnerships
• Understand benefits of leveraging collaborative efforts to increase business success
• Opportunities to immediately start building a successful consortium

What to bring with you to the workshop

• The session will be delivered in-person at Cranmore Park
• Bring writing equipment, laptop or tablet

Please note this workshop is run through the STEAMhouse Forward programme and is therefore open to sole traders with a UTR number, or those with a company number only. You must also be located in Solihull.

STEAMhouse Forward is fully-funded by the UK government through the UKSPF (UK Shared Prosperity Fund) supporting Birmingham & Solihull businesses to innovate, collaborate and grow. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local initiatives by March 2025. 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 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus.

If you are not a member of STEAMhouse Forward but would like to attend the workshop, you should apply at the link here. There will also be the opportunity to apply at the event by filling in a paper version of the form.

Presenter: Drew Currie

Drew Currie has a passion for supporting small businesses and making entrepreneurship & social enterprise more accessible.

Drew runs informative, ‘Show Me The Money’ events around the country, sharing guaranteed advice to secure funding. To date his social enterprise has helped founders access over £8 million in grants and free programme support; all pro-bono.

Drew is a business founder, a mentor at NatWest Entrepreneur Accelerator, Board member & Interim CEO at the Initiative for Social Enterprise, Judge for Tech Nation, Ambassador for Tech West Midlands and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Assessor.

Currently Drew is launching hibretOne CIC. A revolutionary world-first, technology-driven platform. Delivering the most comprehensive resources, tools, investment and opportunities; all in one place.

hibretOne advisors include Nick Jenkins, Founder of Moonpig & former BBC Dragons Den and Melissa Snover who has won the highest investment for a woman in UK history.

hibretOne’s vision is transformational, aiming to enable 1 million aspirers each year and add £1bn of new investment to the UK economy, with 20% going to diverse founders, community businesses & social enterprises.