FREE support is set to be offered to sole traders and businesses across Sedgemoor as part of a new scheme.

Sedgemoor District Council is working with West Somerset and Taunton Deane Borough Council to offer a range of free support to sole traders and businesses in the area.  The scheme, ‘Get Business Get Digital’ run by Cosmic will be starting again in January following on from a similar project launched in 2015 but extending to a larger area.

A spokesman for Sedgemoor District Council said: “We are often asked by businesses where they can access advice on a range of subjects from funding and marketing to keeping up to date with digital advances.

We have had excellent feedback from those who attended the previous workshops so we are really pleased to be able to run them again in 2017.”

Kate Doodson, from Cosmic, said her company was delighted to be supporting businesses for a second year and helping them to improve their business knowledge and digital skills.  “Digital skills are fast becoming critical to business success and programmes of activity like Get Business Get Digital, are essential to create thriving rural economies.

“Businesses who engage in our programmes find them a great, friendly and effective way to learn new skills”.

Cosmic will be delivering a variety of business and digital workshops, suitable for all businesses at all levels and is free for business owners to attend.

The scheme is set to be launched this January and there will also be 1 -2 -1 business and digital advisory sessions available.

One of many business people who received digital support through Get Business, Get Digital during 2016 was Kate Doig of Firewolf Glass.

She said: “Cosmic were very professional in their approach to the mentoring and advice sessions.

"They were friendly and approachable, organised, very knowledgeable and able to give advice and guidance clearly and in a way that could be easily understood.

"They put together clear and structured objectives which addressed the needs of my business.”

For more information about the mentoring sessions call 0845 094 6108, email alicia@cosmic.org.uk or visit http://www.getbusinessgetdigital.co.uk