Thrive

Help Your Business To Thrive

Thrive is a fully funded specialist start up incubation programme supporting health, wellbeing and lifescience innovators, and entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into a sustainable business.

Based at The Glass Box in the heart of Huddersfield you will get direct access to a range of fully funded support from specially selected partner organisations who will share their expertise, knowledge and skills to accelerate your growth potential.

Thrive is designed to help you develop your idea, launch and grow your business in Kirklees.

Support incudes a collaborative-learning workshop and masterclass programme delivered by subject experts. The programme covers business planning models and management; customer profiling; developing your health product or service; the healthcare landscape; marketing and branding; finance and funding; investment and funding readiness. The workshops culminate in a live Pitching event in front of your peers and a panel of experts.

Along with these workshops Thrive support provides:

Mentoring
Workspace
Grant
Networking, events and talks
Knowledge exchange opportunities
The opportunity to refine your business pitch

Eligibility

The programme is now open for applications. Individuals and existing businesses (including alternative business models) can apply.

Are you:

A pre-start, start-up or early-stage enterprise up to 3 years old, with less than 10 employees?

Developing products or innovations with applications that deliver better health, wellbeing and social care outcomes, tackle health inequalities, or support people to live healthier lives? For example, this might include activities in preventative health, healthy ageing, diagnostics, assistive technology, increasing understanding of conditions, or delivery of social care.

Based in Kirklees or willing to establish business in Kirklees?
Able to commit to attending in-person workshops between 10am – 1pm on the following dates?
8th October 2024, 23rd October 2024, 6th November 2024, 20th November 2024, 4th December 2024, 17th December 2024, 8th January 2025.

If you answered yes to all the above, then Thrive could be right for you.

Contact

If you’d like a preliminary conversation with one of our team, please email
[email protected]

Quote ‘Thrive enquiry’ and provide your name and telephone number.

Apply to Thrive

Applications to join Thrive are currently closed.

We will update the webpage if this changes.

Next steps

Step 1 Your application will be reviewed by the Thrive team

Step 2 Thrive will contact you to arrange an interview, either in person or virtually, to discuss the programme and your business idea, or to explain why we don’t feel you would be the right fit for Thrive at this time

Step 3 If it’s agreed that Thrive is right for you, we will confirm the next steps including workspace and welcome arrangements.

The not-so small print

This project is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Thrive support is available until 31st March 2025.
Workspace is at The Glass Box, 6 Friendly Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RD and offered at no cost to the participant for the duration of the programme.
To maximise the benefits of participating in Thrive, participants will be expected to locate themselves for at least part of the working week at The Glass Box and to commit to attending workshops and accessing mentoring.
Participants can join the programme at any time up to October 2024.
Grants are subject to an application process. Terms and conditions apply and will be made available once a participant has joined Thrive.
Access to the range of support available is dependent on the date a participant joins the programme.

Thrive is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.

For more information visit UK Shared Prosperity Fund: prospectus – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)