Growing your business

If you are thinking about growing your business in South Tyneside then you're certainly not alone.

It's an exciting time for any business, especially in South Tyneside, but growth is something that comes with its challenges as well as its opportunities.

We can help prepare you for the challenges and plan for the future. It's about finding the right way to grow your business as well as the right time to grow and that's something only you can decide. 

There are all sorts of reasons why businesses plan for growth in South Tyneside.

What's right for one business might be very different to what's right for another business. 

What matters most is your objectives for your business - this gives everything a clear focus and sense of direction as you move forward.

• Meet your customers' needs
• Introduce new products or services
• Stay ahead of the competition
• Look for new challenges
• Improve profitability of your business

If you're growing your business in South Tyneside the answer is probably everything.

Below are some of the themes and issues that we find often emerge when talking to business owners and managers based in South Tyneside as they go through growth phases.

If any of them sound familiar, why not get in touch with our team and see how we can help you put your plans into practice?

• Staying in control
• Access to information
• Taking a long term view
• Managing change within your business

Sometimes it helps to get an external view, we are never going to know your business as well as you do, but we do understand business and that's where we can help.

Having the benefit of a different perspective we can add real value to your plans, giving you information and advice on key areas and helping you make the right decisions at the right time.

The Economic Growth Team offers a range of services to businesses that are looking to expand, as well as assisting business that are considering relocating into South Tyneside.

If you're an existing business in South Tyneside with expansion plans or ideas, then view the services we can offer below. Alternatively, please get in touch with us, in confidence, to find out how we can help you.

Financial assistance

The Council can advise on the potential sources of financial assistance to help businesses that are planning expansion projects or considering locating to South Tyneside.

Finding premises and land

As well as having local knowledge of the area, the Council can provide details of properties and employment land available through private agents and its own commercial property portfolio. We can provide tailored listing of available properties as well as arranging viewings.

For more information please visit business property.

Recruitment and training

The Council can play a co-ordination and supporting role in recruiting the right people for your business. We can potentially help companies who are taking on new staff with pre-employment training, recruitment and advertising of vacancies.

The Council can provide support to organisations that are making redundancies by bringing together agencies that specialise in careers advice.

For more information please email southtynesideworks@southtyneside.gov.uk. 

Supply South Tyneside

Supply South Tyneside is a free service that helps local businesses, identify, bid for and win new business.

For more information please visit Supply South Tyneside.

Manufacturing Forum

The Manufacturing Forum was set up to enable manufacturing companies in South Tyneside to work together to resolve common issues. The Forum has 3 primary concerns:

1. Information Hub - collating and distributing information
2. Collaboration - raising common issues
3. Skills - encouraging involvement with schools, colleges, universities and training organisations

For more information please visit The Advanced Manufacturing Forum.

UK Trade and Investment

Open to Export is a business resource offering free export advice for overseas growth. 

For more information please visit UKTI: Open to Export.

If you need help with any of the information on these pages please contact Business Employment and Skills Service.

The team can be contacted by phone or online.

To get in touch with the team call 0191 481 3456 or email business@southtyneside.gov.uk.