Local small business support accelerated through collaboration
We collaborate with local governments, Growth Hubs, and community groups to bridge the productivity gap, enable digital adoption, and create resilient small businesses in communities across the UK.
Why partner with us?
Scaling personalised business advice can be challenging and expensive. Digital Boost can act as your ‘multiplier’ – providing the infrastructure and community needed for always-on, free support to every business in your area, targeted at local skills gaps and priorities.
Proven partnership
We are a social enterprise owned by a charity, with a focused mission to enable inclusive small business growth. Our free support can supplement your programmes, or we can work with you to develop local initiatives tailored to your needs.
Close critical skills gaps
Our mentors and peer learning programmes help local firms adopt the AI and digital tools necessary to compete today, as well as lift skills and confidence in marketing, finance, productive operations, and much more.
Target priority groups
Our support is open to all, but we specifically target under-represented founders, including female, disabled, or ethnic minority entrepreneurs. 64% of those we support are female; 48% ethnic minority.
Track demand and impact
We closely monitor demand, then tailor our offerings to meet it. Real-time reporting tracks engagement, satisfaction, and impact by local authority, sector, and demographic group. Reporting can align to frameworks like TOMs and PPN 002.
Solutions for local economic growth
Growth Hub referrals
We don’t replace your local expertise; we enhance it. We provide a seamless referral pathway for businesses in your area to access unlimited, free mentoring, expert guidance, and on-demand learning programmes, supplementing your advisor capacity and bespoke programmes.
Targeted reporting & insights
Gain access to real-time dashboards showing the specific skills gaps and challenges facing businesses in your region. Understand uptake and impact of our support, by local authority, demographic group, sectors and more.
Local mentoring programmes
Leverage our mentor community and infrastructure to offer mentoring to local businesses as part of your support programmes. Our matching engine connects people to mentors near them or, if specialised skills needed are not available locally, taps into our wider mentor network.
Place-based support programmes
Whether you are targeting creative industries or supporting high-street revitalisation, aiming to build digital skills or make local businesses tender-ready, we can help. We can create custom cohorts of our off-the-shelf programmes or build bespoke programmes for you, leveraging our cost-effective platform and network.
White label support platform
Create a localised, branded version of our platform to power your small business support and innovation initiatives.
Find out morePriority themes for 2026 local growth
Our on-demand support system and real-time insights offer a deep understanding of what help small businesses need most, right now.
AI Readiness for Small Businesses
Ensuring no business is left behind.
SME Digital Adoption
How to adopt digital tools to save time and improve productivity.
Accelerating Marketing
How to reach and effectively engage new customers with limited budgets.
Green Transition
Supporting small firms to measure and reduce their carbon footprint.
Supply Chain Readiness
Helping local SMEs and VCSEs build capabilities to be tender ready.
High Street Growth
Enabling high street businesses to better attract customers, operate effectively, and thrive.
Our community
We work with the small businesses across all sectors that most need support: micro-entrepreneurs, under-represented founders, and those who've not had business support before.
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