The Innovation and Growth Team programme is now closed.

If you would like to find out about what business support is now available, you can get information from the Business Link website www.businesslink.gov.uk which has a wealth of information for new and growing companies. Through that website you will also be able to find out details of the new Business Coaching for Growth service that will start in 2012. The Department for Business Innovation and Skills has also recently launched a newsletter which provides up to date information on the emerging business improvement landscape - to register click here

You may find the following local organisations useful to support your future growth.

Buckinghamshire & Milton Keynes

East Sussex & Brighton and Hove / Gatwick Diamond & West Sussex

The Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership is working to pick up the business support baton. If you would like to stay in touch with developments in business support, please visit their website www.coast2capital.org.uk. It is not clear at this stage whether there will be any local support services, however, the Local Enterprise Partnership will be able to keep you updated with developments as they happen.

Kent & Medway

You can access information about the Kent and Greater Essex LEP , please go to: www.keb.org.uk/lep/

Oxfordshire

The Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership is working to pick up the business support baton. If you would like to stay in touch with developments in business support, please contact Dave Waller or colleagues via the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership at lep@oxfordshire.gov.uk, 01865 815866 or 07767 495 248. It is not clear at this stage whether there will be any local support services, however, the Local Enterprise Partnership will be able to keep you updated with developments as they happen at Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership - Business Support.

Solent

The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership in the south of the county and the Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership in the centre and north of the county are working to pick up the business support baton. To keep in touch with developments at Solent LEP visit their website solentlep.org.uk. If you need to email them the address is info@solentlep.org.uk.

Enterprise M3 LEP is a more recent creation and does not yet have a website but one is coming soon. If you need information about the LEP then please contact Diane Hayward at Basingstoke and Dean BC email diane.hayward@basingstoke.gov.uk tel 01256 845384.

Thames Valley

The Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership is working to pick up the business support baton. You can stay in touch with developments in business support by emailing innovation@thamesvalleyberkshire.co.uk

West Surrey & NE Hants

The Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership is working to pick up the business support baton in Hampshire. If you would like to stay in touch with developments in business support, please Watch out for their website which is coming soon. If you need information about the LEP then please contact Diane Hayward at Basingstoke and Dean BC email diane.hayward@basingstoke.gov.uk tel 01256 845384.

In Surrey please contact Mark Pearson at Surrey Connect: http://www.surreyeconomicpartnership.org/stylesheet.asp?file=712_surrey_connects_local_enterprise_partnership_-_april_2011. 01483 685230