Our Impact in 2019… and 36 Years of Heritage

Across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North London we are proud to have delivered:

15,979 hours of business advice and support delivered

373 total business starts

A great environment – one of collaboration, encouragement and willingness to help each other.

Graham Bunting Trust Business Partners

41+ businesses based in our incubation spaces

93% satisfaction rate from delegates attending Wenta training workshops

264 total jobs created

£89,250 of grants given to small businesses

Totalling £240,000 over the past 3 years

4,927 live chats delivered by Wenta Business Advisors with a total of 2,161 hours of online support

270+ businesses supported across our 5 business centres

10,192 small businesses supported across all of Wenta’s services

9,876 hours of training workshops delivered across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and North London

SEMSUP’s impact Teevan Consulting Independent Review of The South East Midlands Start-up Programme (SEMSUP):

Enterprise start-ups 396 business starts created by SEMSUP* (target: 141)

Individual employability 535 gross jobs created (target: 58)

Business performance £13.1 million reported turnover in Year 1

National impact 14.744 million users can reach us through our online advice service:

Wenta Hertfordshire 1.195 million Wenta South East Midlands 1.616 million MiV Broxtowe 113 thousand MiV Calderdale 210 thousand MiV City Business Library 8.965 million MiV Eastleigh 131 thousand MiV Kent 1.565 million MiV Manchester 553 thousand MiV Spelthorne 99 thousand MiV PNE 297 thousand 05 Wenta Annual Review 2018–2019

We can conclude that the support is making a significant contribution towards achieving the outcomes and impact in the logic model.

One of the factors in SEMSUP that creates particularly high added value is that it is the only comprehensive start-up/early stage business support service in the sub-region.

Paul Teevan Teevan Consulting

Total 14.744 million

Wenta have helped us massively with growing our business. They have helped us gain grant funding for our website as well as many key sources and contacts for our business success. We now have an amazing website (www.moodpants.co.uk) and SEO knowledge to increase traffic to the website. This will help Mood Pants to grow exponentially over the next year.

The problem was I was busy with the business but not running the business. I was lost. I booked onto a business advice session with Wenta and it was one of the best business decisions of 2019!

Kieran Feetham Stevenage Injury Clinic