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Be Your Own Boss

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Introducing Be Your Own Boss!

Shaw Trust’s dedicated self-employment and business mentoring support service. Through Shaw Trust’s Be Your Own Boss, your customers can access a team of highly experienced Business Mentors available to support them to start, grow and sustain their business.

Our Be Your Own Boss service provides tailored self-employment and business mentoring support, to get your customers’ business up and running, or take it to the next level, within three to six months!

Be Your Own Boss allows individuals to develop their business idea with the support and guidance of an experienced Business Mentor, covering topics like:

  • Advice on business plans.
  • Budgeting and cash-flow forecasting.
  • Social Media awareness.
  • Brand awareness and design.
  • Sales Generation.
  • Business Resilience, and much more.

Koku is just one of the many people we have supported to become successfully self-employed. Koku had been unemployed for more than three years when he reached out for self-employment help. Within just two months of working with us he had completed his business plan with the support of his Business Mentor, Muhammed, and was ready to trade! He opened his ethical recruitment business in March 2022.

Talking about the service Koku said: “Thank you so much for the support, I am thrilled to start my business and have been blessed to have such a fantastic Mentor in Muhammed. He is direct, professional and business-like, while being compassionate but firm and I look forward to his continued professional guidance as I progress onwards. Thank you again for your fantastic support!”

Contact us at BeYourOwnBoss@shaw-trust.org.uk to see how we can support your customers to turn their self-employment dreams into reality.

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