Setting up and running your own business can feel a lonely place. Getting involved with CBASS brings you and your business into a network of business people who have been there themselves and can reassure, advise and help. Given our fishing analogy, it’s about being part of a shoal and working together to avoid the hazards, deal with the threats, find collaborators and make the most of opportunities that come your way.

Members and clients – from start-ups to small business owners, entrepreneurs to business leaders - can access templates and workbooks to help with specific aspects of running their business. In addition, CBASS invests time and effort in bringing those members together, whether at business networking events (real or virtual) or for peer-to-peer mentoring.

Business owners have different reasons for networking and CBASS is different to other business networking organisations.

You might want to find new customers or suppliers and use your time for business development. Or you might be looking for partners and collaborators. You might just want the safety net of being part of something bigger in a network where they feel safe to share ideas and issues. Our members might be business leaders or decision makers in their own right. But all these people want to get in touch with others who share a similar experience of starting up, running and growing their own businesses.

The CBASS business owners networking group does all of these things. It’s about belonging for the long term and building strong business connections.

If businesses have joined and are CBASS clients, they’ll already have a lot in common. They’ll share an enthusiasm for business growth and a commitment to researching and learning about what’s possible for business success. That shared approach is a great foundation for some really productive business networking. CBASS experts will be at the hub, making introductions, enabling mentoring and encouraging collaborations.

“Together we are stronger”

If you want to know more and swim with the other fish in our shoal, please get in touch.

Once we really understand you, your business, the support and networking opportunities you need, we can recommend the right path. That may be one-to-one mentoring or joining one of our peer groups. We will also be able to signpost you to other expertise and share resources, such as business templates, models and blogs, to help you develop your business, management and leadership skills in your own time.