Business & Enterprise Development

Providing services and opportunities to help achieve business goals

Contact a Business Mentor

Our programme provides a range of services and opportunities to help you achieve your goals: 

Advice and Mentoring

Receive personalised one-to-one support, business growth guidance, and financial advice tailored to your needs. 

Business Training

Build essential skills needed to start and grow your business. Current workshops focus on: Business Awareness, Business Planning, Marketing your Business, Personal and Business Financial Management and Legal Matters.

Links4Business Networking Event

Connect with professionals and entrepreneurs through networking opportunities designed to grow your network and inspire your journey.  

Business Growth and Support

Support aimed at businesses led by ethnic minorities to help them overcome barriers and achieve growth. This support involves conducting Business Diagnostics, Brokerage Services, In-Depth Business Assessment and help connecting with industry experts to upskill and bridge capabability for growth.

See our current Business Projects

Programme Impact

1338 Budding Entrepreneurs started a Business or Progressed into Employment
  • Improved entrepreneurial skills 
  • Progression into gainful employment  
  • Reduced poverty levels
  • Increase employability skills 
384 Ethnic minority-led businesses accessed growth opportunities  
  • Increased economic levels 
  • Jobs created  
  • Sustainable businesses 
  • Trusted partnerships 
I have felt inspired even more and felt more reason to believe in my passion and my values.
Natalie
Abistouch Salon & Cosmetic Products... Their Story.

At Highlife Centre, we recently had the privilege of supporting Abistouch Salon & Cosmetic Products, a passionate entrepreneur who has spent over 20 years building their salon and cosmetic business, Abistouch Salon. When our business team visited Abistouch Salon, they were on the verge of closing her business.

Years of running from different locations, rising rent costs, and mounting financial pressure had left them exhausted. Marketing had slowed down, and with no affordable space to operate from, they felt they were running out of options.

We first invited Abistouch Salon & Cosmetic Products to our monthly business networking events, where they quickly began reconnecting with other business owners and gaining new energy.

From there, we scheduled her for a full business assessment with one of our consultants to dive deeper into their challenges and create a recovery plan. Most importantly, we offered Abistouch Salon & Cosmetic Products a hub space within Highlife Centre to relaunch their salon.

This opportunity gives them a fresh start—without the heavy financial burden of commercial rent. Abistouch Salon & Cosmetic Products’s story is still unfolding, but their resilience and passion are clear.

We’re proud to walk alongside them as they rebuild Abistouch and continues doing what they love.
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