Our Services

Coaching for High Growth

The Oxford Innovation Service

Oxford Innovation offers intensive coaching and key business connections for SME businesses aiming for high growth and located in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

Oxford Innovation has a team of highly experienced business coaches available to support businesses with ambition, seeking to grow and thus drive forward economic success in Cornwall. This programme gives each business access to a business coach who will enable them to tap into the expertise and knowledge networks that will facilitate rapid growth.

Starting a High Growth Business

The Oxford Innovation Service

Oxford Innovation offers hands-on, experienced assistance for new and existing entrepreneurs starting a high growth business and located in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

Oxford Innovation has a team of highly experienced business advisors available to support entrepreneurs and start up businesses with ambition, seeking to achieve high growth and thus drive forward economic success in Cornwall. This programme gives each start up business access to a network of experienced business advisors who can enable entrepreneurs to tap into the expertise that will facilitate rapid growth.

Grants and Funding Info

Managing a growing business is not just a full time job, it is a labour of love. Trying to find funding for your business can be the complete opposite, with your advances spurned and your carefully prepared plans rejected.

This can be a painful and frustrating process but knowing who, when and how to ask the question can make things much simpler.

Finding the right funding partner is not just about identifying someone who can provide the amount of funding you are looking for, it is also about finding the type of funding that is right for the needs and profile of your business.

This is a concept that is overlooked by many business managers in their understandable urgency to secure the cash they need to support and grow their businesses but it is also the reason so many approaches are turned down.

Each type of funding product has its own specific needs.

Loans need to be repaid and businesses must generate excess cash from trading, usually relatively quickly, to be able to do so.

Investors are looking for a substantial return in exchange for a cash commitment and a business must be able to increase its value several times over for this to be achieved.

Grants are provided to further the aims of the organisation providing them and businesses seeking them need to be able to contribute to that wider goal, whether or not this specifically assists their commercial aspirations.

There are many more products with their own requirements.

And it’s not that simple. Not all loan providers, investors or providers of similar products have the same outlook, processes, requirements or assessment procedures.

Navigating your way around all of this can be a daunting task if you don’t have the time available to keep up to date on all the latest developments, especially as this isn’t the main focus of your business.

This is where experienced help can be invaluable, not just in guiding you to identify the amount and type of funding appropriate to your business, but in knowing how to put your case effectively.

If you’re a business with high growth potential, contact the Grow Cornwall team to see how we can assist you with your funding needs.

Equality and Diversity

Oxford Innovation believes that Equality and Diversity are key elements of its organisational success and for this reason we take their consideration in company operations beyond the legal requirements and have embedded them in our company ethos. Recognising that our staff are 'The Company', Equality and Diversity form part of the personal development of individuals.

The value of our business is in Our Team, the richness of our diversity and what we can do to help others start and grow businesses. Equality and Diversity are therefore key ingrediants of our success and we take all of the following aspects seriously both internally and in our delivery of support to businesses externally:

age
gender
sexuality
marital status
ethnicity or race
religious beliefs
background
personality
work-style

Oxford Innovation is part of the SQW Group and as such has adopted the group's policy on Equality and Diversity, a copy of which is available upon request.

Our hope is to engage with businesses that are committed to attaining the same standards with respect to Equality and Diversity. We will work with Business Link to assist clients in meeting the requirements for race, equality, disability equality and gender equality in their workplaces and business operations, taking account of religion and/or belief, sexual orientation and age.

Sustainability

Sustainability and preservation of the Environment is one of the main cross cutting themes in the Convergence programme for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly.

The Coaching for High Growth and Starting a High Growth Business programmes, being delivered by Oxford Innovation are part of the Convergence programme and therefore must reflect the strong Environmental desire of the programme.

Oxford Innovation values environmental sustainability and commits to minimising and where possible eliminating, any detrimental effect on the environment resulting from the running of its operations.