Get started on your growth journey

Our new Virtual Adviser tool will help you improve your business performance and access useful training. Whether you want to develop your own skills or the talent within your team, completing the Virtual Adviser is the first step in getting the support and funding available to help you grow. 

The Virtual Adviser in action

Hayley Watkins Photography became the 100th business to use the Virtual Adviser® tool, and has since taken to the skies!

Hayley runs a photography business in Princes Risborough and initially used the Virtual Adviser® tool to give her business a health check. Hayley was able to identify areas in which the business could improve and used the personalised report from the tool as a starting point when discussing her training needs with a skills adviser from Adviza.

Her skills adviser identified Hayley’s business as being eligible for a £150 training voucher and Hayley is set to use this to gain her Drone Flying License to enable her to take aerial footage.

The team also helped Hayley register as a training provider, and she is now able to help other local businesses improve their use of photographic images.

The Virtual Adviser® tool and the £150 training vouchers are available through the Buckinghamshire Skills Brokerage, a partnership between Adviza and Buckinghamshire Business First which is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).

Your business health check

Training and workforce development is just one of the support programmes available from the Buckinghamshire Business First Growth Team who have specialist knowledge of local and national sources of support and funding - so don't delay, spend 15 valuable minutes on a business healthcheck today >

If you would like to speak to one of our business support team to find out more before you use the tool, call 01494 927130 or email BusinessSupport@bbf.uk.com.