Sponsoring Agency: Connectus
Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/30/2021
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
At Connectus, they help SME’s to transform their businesses with technology by helping them to mitigate costs, complexity and risk.
As Connectus emerges from what has been a difficult time for many SME businesses, they have partnered with four other businesses to create an incredible SME prize for two businesses worth over £12,000 each!
Connectus is offering two business, one Start-up and one Scale-up, the opportunity to receive support from their team of experts and also receive a range of products and services based on a free of charge 12 month contract. This means that all of the costs of the services offered are met for the first 12 months by Connectus, made of more, Urban Technology group, DropJaw Ventures and Sales Bond.
Qualifying Criteria
Start Up Business:
• Have been trading for less than 12 months 1-50 employees
• Start up Prize worth over £12,000
• The winning business will be offered the services below on a free of charge basis for 12 months.
o Business Internet Connectivity for 12 months
o Two free Microsoft 365 Business Standard licences (providing Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Exchange)
o Anti-virus protection for up to 6 devices
o 12 months IT Support
o 50GB Secure Cloud storage for company documents
o 1 hour Cyber Security Consultancy
o 12 months Urban Base CRM subscription
o Two hours per month Marketing consultancy
o Two hours per month Social Media Support
o Ten hours of Sales Training
Scale Up Business:
• Have been trading for more than 12months
• Can evidence plans for turnover growth within your business in excess of 10% year on year.
• Scale up Prize worth over £15,000
• The winning business will be offered the services below on a free of charge basis for 12 months.
o Business Internet Connectivity for 12 months
o Five free Microsoft 365 Business Standard licences (providing Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Exchange)
o Anti-virus protection for up to 10 devices
o 12 months IT Support
o 100GB Secure Cloud storage for company documents
o 1 hour Cyber Security Consultancy & 1 hour per quarter Cyber review
o 12 months Urban Base CRM subscription
o Two hours per month Marketing consultancy
o Two hours per month Social Media Support
o Two hours per month Executive Mentoring
o Ten hours of Sales Training
Who Can Enter
• The Competition is open to Small Medium Businesses registered in the United Kingdom.
• A single business cannot enter both categories.
More information at: https://connectus.org.uk/connectus-competition/
