Tailored support for your business
If you’re thinking about relocating your business to County Durham, or establishing a base here, Business Durham offers an extensive package of support to ensure that this transition is as smooth as possible. This support is tailored to the needs of each business and available to all types of company, regardless of size and sector.
Property Solutions
Our team at Business Durham can help you find the perfect premises, whether that’s incubator space, state-of-the art-labs, large-scale manufacturing space or Grade A offices.
Services include:
Searchable commercial property database
Practical support including property viewings
Free or discounted desk space for up to 12 months
We can provide expert knowledge, bespoke research and local intelligence to demonstrate why County Durham is the ideal location for your business.
This service is provided on a free, confidential basis and includes:
Local industry and sector profiling
Demographic and labour market analysis
Access to first-class research expertise, tailored to your business
Research & Market Intelligence
Our bespoke, free, confidential recruitment support is designed to ensure your company is able to attract the best talent once you’ve established a presence in County Durham.
This support may include:
Working with key partners to build bespoke recruitment and training packages
Advising on relevant apprenticeship and customised training programmes
Recommending various training services and funding streams
Introducing businesses to university contacts to support graduate recruitment
Providing salary benchmarking to support a business case for relocation
Recruitment & Skills Support
This includes:
Organising familiarisation visits and tours of the area
Working with your business to support employees who are moving to the region
Providing practical information about living in the region including profiles on neighbourhoods, schools, nurseries and the local housing market
Help to access linguistic and cultural support for international staff
Relocation Assistance
Local Connections
Business Durham can introduce businesses to local and regional networking groups, suppliers, education establishments and associations that offer sector-specific events.
We can also help to raise your company’s profile in the region by:
Advising on PR and social media activity plans to support your arrival in County Durham
Issuing press releases to local media and suggesting relevant local contacts to invite to launch events
Making introductions to key regional media channels and marketing agencies
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Once you’ve established your base in County Durham, a dedicated aftercare account manager from Business Durham will be on hand to provide ongoing support including:
Help to access training and recruitment opportunities
Help with financial incentives
Assistance with property issues
Introductions to local companies, regional universities and national catapults
Invites to local networking events
Aftercare Support
Some of the businesses we've helped
Marmax Products
We have been delighted with the support that Business Durham and their partners have provided our company and with additional funding, we hope to further develop our working practices to safeguard our existing business and expand our capabilities to meet new customer demands and expectations.
Dave Johnson
Managing Director
Redditch Medical
NETPark is a fantastic place to do business in terms of facilities, potential for growth and for collaboration.
Steve Brown
Managing Director
Tekgem
The facilities and ancillary business services here are second to none and the campus feel of the science park suits the culture within the company.
Ian Gemski
Director
SEEDS
The ecosystem in NETPark is just right for us; SEEDS first came here because of its partnership work with the CPI and now our vision is to have a busy lab facility developing various applications and licensing them out to companies.
Peter Chalder-Wood
Head of Strategic Partnerships
Magnitude Biosciences
We expect to more than double the team in Sedgefield to 45 over the next two to three years, with a larger commercial team allowing us to expand our global footprint.
Dr Fozia Saleem
CEO
Wootzano
At a time when the fruit packing labour market is very challenging across Europe and North America, compounded by Brexit, Covid, and the movement of people, Wootzano’s robots are providing a niche solution using game-changing, world-class technology that has been developed here on NETPark.
Jesse Opoku
Chief Operating Officer
Teescraft Engineering
Teescraft Engineering has been a major employer in County Durham for a number of years and I’m delighted that, with grant support through the County Durham Growth Fund, the company is embarking on ambitious plans to significantly expand.
Hazel Sykes
Business Durham
ATT Fabrications
We knew we had the space to add new machines which would not only improve productivity and efficiency but also allow us to add new products and processes, the County Durham Growth Fund helped this happen.
Andrew Devlin
ATT Fabrications
AAA Caring Caretaker
The Caring Caretaker is a company that’s grown from one to a team of 41 and is now, with grant support from the County Durham Growth Fund, in the process of taking its business journey to the next stage, moving to much larger premises and creating a further 10 jobs, cementing its long-term future here in County Durham.
Sarah Slaven
Managing Director, Business Durham
Renovo Solutions
We’ve been incredibly lucky to have secured financial investment from Business Durham which really has been crucial to the growth of the business and fast-tracked our plans in such a short space of time.
Antony Gray
Founder
Ashgarth Engineering
The grant we’ve received from the County Durham Growth Fund has been invaluable to us as without it we probably would have only been able to purchase one machine.
Niall Ash
Director
TO Mounter
We were looking at investing in new machinery which would enable us to expand our client base, and our accountant mentioned the County Durham Growth Fund to us.
Lisa Mounter
General Manager
Creator
Investing in this additional space means we now own our future – we’re not in anyone else’s hands and that’s a fantastic position to be in.
Ryan Carter
Founder
E Catering
We took on more space than we needed to, allowing for our planned growth over the next five years, however with the grant support we’ve had from the County Durham Growth Fund, we are now looking at achieving our projections in the next three years.
Reece Ingham
Head of Finance
Tridonic
It has been a testing couple of years due to the pandemic and this support has been invaluable. Going forwards, we intend to invest further in technology and skills to strengthen our position in this competitive marketplace.
Ben Kennard
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Manager
Newton Press
We’ve got a great team now and looking ahead this year, for us it’s about building on what we have, and then expanding with new orders and further investment at the right times to propel this business forward in this new space.
Stuart Howarth
Sales Director
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