LOCAL AREA SUMARY:

Swindon and Wiltshire

Total number of scaleups

No. by employee growth

No. by turnover growth

No. by employee and turnover growth

Total employees

Total turnover

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Employee Growth

Woods Valldata
Woods Valldata has developed a range of software that allows charities to manage their fundraising activities such as donations, raffles and lotteries.

Wishford Schools
Wishford Schools operates a group of preparatory and senior schools.

Bath ASU
Bath ASU provides manufacturing services for pharmaceutical products. Service include deployment of clinical trials, batch manufacturing and patient-specific manufacturing.

Red House Foods
Red House Foods produces a range of gluten-free food.

Stonewood
Stonewood provides building and refurbishment services.

Top 5 Visible Scaleups by Turnover Growth

Stonewood
Stonewood provides building and refurbishment services.

Whitehall Garden Centres
Whitehall Garden Centres operates a number of restaurants, farm shops and garden centres that sell a range of homewares, plants, pets and gifts.

Dyson
Dyson designs home utilities products such as vacuum cleaners and hairdryers.

Wishford Schools
Wishford Schools operates a group of preparatory and senior schools.

Woods Valldata
Woods Valldata has developed a range of software that allows charities to manage their fundraising activities such as donations, raffles and lotteries.

Local LEP ScaleUp Programmes

The Inspire Elite Programme provides a combination of peer-to-peer networking and education as well as intensive support through workshops, one-to-one advice and senior management team mentoring.

Members are also offered a range of services such as in-house recruitment advice, guidance on developing a successful distribution strategy, support to find funding and referral to leadership development programmes such as Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses UK.

A core element of the programme is to help business leaders develop clear business strategies for growth and to do this they are offered strategy advice and guidance on developing a winning strategy that can be followed by workshops with the whole management team.

Scaleup Views

The key barriers to growth are access to talent, leadership development and access to UK markets. The key forms of support sought are general business support from government, growth hubs, banks and other financial suppliers and peer networks.

Top barriers to growth

  • Access to talent
  • Leadership development
  • Access to UK markets

want TO SEE more of:

  • Peer networks
  • Banks and other financial suppliers
  • General business support from government
  • Growth Hubs and LEPs
  • Procurement contracts

The learnings from the Swindon and Wiltshire programme are now being taken up by the Heart of the South West LEP and Inspire Elite is working on embedding the model successfully in the coming year.