Small Business Charter schools - Driving Productivity in Micro-businesses

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Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) lead a consortium of 15 Business Schools, who all hold the Small Business Charter, to conduct a trial designed to improve productivity in micro-businesses. This national programme will include a range of regions (London and the South East; East and West Midlands; South Yorkshire; Greater Manchester and the North East) and a diverse set of business owners within the general population of micro-businesses (e.g., non-UK-born entrepreneurs, ethnic minority entrepreneurs, women-led businesses).The planned RCT trial for the programme has been abandoned due to the current climate. We have refocused the project to offer support to the Leading to Grow micro-businesses and gain valuable insight of the effects of the pandemic on the small business community. We are including 5 key areas to evaluate: Assessing the resilience of the micro-business sector in the UK, identifying effective strategic responses to the crisis, understanding the impact of position in value chain/supply chains, identifying critical models of business support and finally identifying aspects of the original trial design that could be improved should we continue in the future.We have a target number of 277 businesses to receive support from specialist Entrepreneur’s in Residence that each of the 15 businesses schools are working with.