Starting on 24 April 2024, join us and learn how to create your own business. Whether you are already starting a business or interested in applying existing skills to business creation, this course is for you. 

The business creation course is delivered by certified gender-aware advisers and provides support for those interested in starting a business and those already in the start-up process. For those at the pre-start stage the course will help with ideas generation and matching existing skills to the skills needed when running a business. Participants will be encouraged to assess the value of skills they have already and consider, in a safe space, how those skills or knowledge seams or interests could be converted into a business idea. 

Those attending will be part of a group of women all with the aim of identifying a business idea and starting up a business. For those already actively starting up a business, the course provides information and practical insights on key topics such as business planning, attracting customers and pricing.

The course will be delivered over six sessions with dates outlined below. The sessions will be delivered by Women’s Enterprise Scotland who help thousands of women across Scotland to start and grow their own businesses. 

Programme outline: 

• Wednesdays, 2-4pm
• 6 sessions: 24 April to 5 June 2024
• Deadline to register: 18th April
• Info sessions for interested parties on 15 and 16 April (RSVP e.ives@napier.ac.uk)

Topics covered during the programme include:

• Individual skills assessment and development plan
• Idea generation and assessment
• Business planning
• Attracting customers
• Pricing

Benefits for Participants

Participants will benefit from a 6-session training programme designed to help you:

• Understand your skills
• Identify a business idea
• Plan and develop your idea into a business
• Hear from inspirational women founders
• Build your network of like-minded women start-ups
• Get connected to business support professionals

Our Business Creation course for women is inclusive of Trans and Intersex women, as well as non-binary and gender diverse people who are comfortable in a space that centres the experiences of women. Places are limited to ensure the cohort can make the most of the experience, sessions won’t be recorded and attendance is required at all sessions. 

For further information and to register visit our Bright Red Triangle website or contact Dr Emma Ives at e.ives@napier.ac.uk with any questions and to RSVP.