Looking Back at Digital Boost’s 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’ve been reflecting on our year and the achievements that we’ve had 🎉 Through our small business mentoring, Masterclasses, programmes and in-person events, we’re proud to say that we delivered over 165,000 hours of live support.

It’s been a year packed with new programmes, fantastic partnerships, and big changes to our mentoring platform. Let’s dive into 2025’s milestones 👇

Highlights of 2025

A year of events

If 2025 could be summed up in one word, it would be ‘connection‘. We delivered 24 in-person events for our community and supported over 1000 founders through these events!

• International Women’s Day: We welcomed nearly 200 guests to our IWD event. It was a day for inspiration and connection and was supported by our partners at NatWest
• Volunteer Celebration Event: We held our very first volunteer celebration event in the summer! This was a chance for us to celebrate our volunteers’ hard work and also spotlight some of our top mentors from the community 🩵
• Small Business Roadshow: In partnership with BT, we did a Roadshow tour of the UK! Our tour took us everywhere from Barnstaple, right up to Durham, and it was a pleasure meeting so many inspiring business owners out in their local areas.
• Small Business Bootcamps: Our flagship events took place in London and Edinburgh this year. Supported by NatWest and Constant Contact, we supported over 300 founders at these events. Across the day we delivered expert Workshops, small business mentoring, and created meaningful connections!

It’s been fantastic getting out into the community and meeting so many of you! We’re excited to deliver even more events in 2026 and have the chance to meet more of you in-person 😊

A record year for programmes

2025 stands out as Digital Boost’s biggest year yet for structured programmes! We delivered five major programmes alongside our amazing partners in 2025. And we supported over 1,800 small business owners, helping them to upskill and develop their organisations.

• Through Begin, we support over 300 female founders to start and grow their product businesses! This programme is sponsored by NatWest and supported by BuyWomenBuilt and we can’t wait to deliver it again in 2026
• Through Jumpstart, our community was able to ‘jumpstart’ their marketing and get unstuck! With BT’s support, we ran three cohorts of this programme in 2025.
• With our AI Essentials programme, we embarked on a new project with Google! Hundreds of students registered through Google’s AI Opportunity Fund to take the Google AI Essentials course and earn certification, embracing growth with AI.
• In partnership with Constant Contact, our Email Marketing programme supported over 260 founders! Through this programme, they learned how to successfully harness the power of email marketing to grow their businesses.
• We also supported Visa’s Pioneers Everywhere programme! We delivered a 6-week course for 30 female refugee founders and offered them long-term mentoring to support and develop their businesses!

A platform upgrade

A final highlight from 2025 was launching the upgraded version of our platform for the community! With this upgrade, we streamlined the scheduling process, making it easier for small business mentoring sessions to be booked. And we enabled our volunteers to add learning profiles to their accounts. Ensuring our mentors can upskill and develop was extremely important to us, so we’re really proud of this new feature! Thanks to this upgrade, it’ll now be easier than ever for us to keep developing new features and deliver an amazing experience for our community.

We’re working hard behind the scenes on new features that will be launching in 2026, so watch this space!

Conclusion

2025 will go down as one of the proudest moments in our Digital Boost journey. It’s been an exciting and inspiring year and we can’t wait to see what 2026 holds for us!

If you’re not already in the Digital Boost community, why not join us for the ride?

Whether you’re a founder looking to get support, or a professional who’d like to give back through volunteering, there’s a place for you in the Digital Boost community 🤗