Success Stories

The Business Gateway Growth Hub connects businesses to many different providers of business support services. Below is a selection of case studies for businesses that we have supported directly and via our business support partners.

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Innovative lifting system is game changer

A newly engineered lifting system is raising the bar when it comes to the manual handling of goods thanks to Desford-based business, M J Products. The business has used a grant from Collaborate to purchase equipment which is proving...

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Brewery crafts out new products with support

Langton Brewery is a small local brewery historically producing traditional beers. When the brewery first started in 1999 it operated from the back of the Bell Inn, East Langton and only intended to produce enough beer to supply the...

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Alert iT Story

Alert iT provide technology products into the care market, particularly for the epilepsy market, falls management, incontinence and dementia support. A grant through the SoLSTICE project has helped them cut costs and grow faster than anticipated. SoLSTICE is part-funded...

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Grant enables Translink Express Logistics to go green

Distribution and warehousing business, Translink Express Logistics is well on its way to becoming a greener business after introducing real-time track and trace service for palletized goods. The Narborough-based business has used a Business Gateway Growth Hub grant to...

Round Corner Brewing, the business that ‘can’

Melton Mowbray based Round Corner Brewing is set to double its output this year thanks to a grant from the Business Gateway Growth Hub and its ability to adapt the production of its world-class craft beers during the Covid-19...

Koi Sports is match fit for future growth

For many businesses 2020 was possibly a year they would rather forget. Leicester-based community interest company, Koi Sports CIC, used the time to reflect, plan for future growth and take advantage of the free support available from the Business...

Innovative tutoring business, Spark Academy guided by Business Gateway

Established by ex-science teacher and award winner Mital Thanki in 2009, Spark Academy has come a long way over the last few months since lockdown began. With the help and support of a Business Gateway Growth Hub adviser, Spark Academy has...

Grant provides £19k boost for KJN Automation

Precision engineering business KJN Automation, based in Peckleton, Leicestershire is the first company to secure a Business Growth Grant from the Business Gateway Growth Hub. This investment will enable it to become the UK’s first sole distributor of a lighter,...

Growth Hub support helps Sophia to achieve independence

Sometimes while going about our normal routines people start to formulate what could become a great business idea. That’s what happened to Occupational Therapist, Sophia Dickinson. Her business Home Independence Occupational Therapy Ltd was created in 2019 offering personalised...

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