Leicester Productivity Programme
Time well invested
Turning time into value, through improvement in productivity
Who is this for?
Leicester-based manufacturing SMEs that want to invest their time and commitment to becoming more productive and grow.
What's on offer?
- A programme delivered by Exemplas, a company with 30+ years of delivering high impact business support
- Face-to-face support from a Productivity Expert
- Use of an industry-leading diagnostic tool
- Development of a bespoke productivity improvement plan
- Access to a grant to aid further productivity improvements
Benefits to businesses
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Free support from a highly experienced delivery team that understand SME’s challenges and how to develop effective plans that lead to measured improvements
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Access to an industry-leading productivity diagnostic tool, that uses six high level productivity indicators and 43 performance measures and highlights areas of the SME that should be focussed on making productivity improvements
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Delivery of a grant-funded Improvement project to help drive productivity improvements
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Provides leaders with knowledge and understanding of how to continually measure productivity and look for further opportunities to become more productive
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An efficient customer journey of no longer than 4-months
The Leicester Productivity Programme is delivered by Exemplas, one of the UK’s leading business support organisations. Over the past 30 years, it has provided business advisory services and supported more than 600,000 small to medium-sized businesses on behalf of Government and Private sector organisations. Delivering services such as Innovate UK EDGE in the East of England and East & West Midlands, as well as the Leicestershire Business Advice Service, the business is made up of a team of advisers with both sectoral and functional knowledge. This experience and expertise allow them to match any expert to any SME challenge, ensuring businesses get the advice and funding they need.
This project 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 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus