Scheme details
Area: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Categories: Business support
Business stage: Start-up
Page last updated: 20 March 2026
This fully funded programme support adults (19+) to:
- Explore and start self-employment
- Develop early-stage business ideas with structure and support
- Build digital confidence and practical enterprise skills
- Progress into further economic opportunities
We empower people to launch businesses and have been doing this for over 10 years. Our fully funded, short online courses provide uncomplicated, useful information and guidance for anyone who is in the process of setting up a business or simply just exploring the idea. Our no jargon approach to our short courses gives you everything you need to take that leap of faith and unleash your inner entrepreneur.
Our courses include:
- Personal Skills & Characteristics
- Formal Registration & Set Up
- Legals & Insurances
- Research & Business Planning
- Money, Budgeting and Finance
- Building a Proposition
- Creating an Identity & Finding a USP
- Social Media, Marketing & Promotion
- Launch & Trading