WORCESTERSHIRE BUSINESS FORUM DISCUSSES SKILLS AND RECRUITMENT

Over 50 businesses joined the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Worcestershire Growth Hub for the second Worcestershire Business Forum.

Building on the inaugural business forum held in May, this second forum was focused on the skills and recruitment challenges facing many businesses, listening to feedback gathered from the business community.

The structure of the forum focused on asking attendees to share their challenges and where they felt the opportunities were with recruiting and retaining staff. After this, attendees were given a chance to brainstorm what new support programmes could be introduced to meet their needs, and also heard an update on the current skills and recruitment support programmes.

The data and intelligence from this discussion was collected by the LEP and Growth Hub to inform future delivery and decision making amongst public sector partners.

Gary Woodman, Chief Executive of the Worcestershire Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “The discussions that took place at the second Worcestershire Business Forum were highly engaging and it was fantastic to have a great selection of businesses in the room to hear from and inform on our current programmes of support. “The team will now work on the intelligence gathered to make sure that the LEP and Growth Hub can work closely with public sector partners to build solutions that can help businesses going forward.”

The Worcestershire LEP and Growth Hub aims to run several Business Forums throughout the year on key business topics to help gather business feedback to inform future delivery.

If you are a Worcestershire business who could benefit from free business support, contact the Worcestershire Growth Hub on 01905 677888 or email info@worcestershiregrowthhub.co.uk worcestershiregrowthhub.co.uk