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Free courses to help start, grow, or join a digital business.
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Resources
Courses, workshops, guides and toolkits
Develop your entrepreneurial skills with our online courses, and learn from those who've been there and done it with our guides
Northern Ecosystem Map
Wanna know where all the co-working spaces, accelerators, incubators and digital skills providers in the North of England are? We've mapped them.
Government Resources
From digital skills and tax breaks to public procurement, the UK Government might be able to help out your business more than you thought.
Find other startups like yours
Take a look at the companies who've taken part in one of our programmes.
Collaboration toolkit
Touchpaper is a free-to-use toolkit designed to provide good practice guidance to help startups and corporates work together.
As a founding member, we can vouch for it.
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How to How to: tell if you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur
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