Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing greater access to education, capital and business support services. 10,000 Small Businesses is funded by Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
Small businesses are the drivers of innovation and the backbone of our economy. The uncertainty of the pandemic and repeated lockdowns have been incredibly hard for these entrepreneurs. We have spent time speaking to our 10,000 Small Businesses UK community to understand the impact of COVID-19 and to check the pulse of small business Britain.
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Small Business have faced unique challenges this year. In our recent Small Business Britain: What Next event, they shared how they are the looking at the future and preparing to bounce back better.
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COVID-19 and the resulting economic volatility has had a significant impact on small businesses across the UK. To understand the effects, outlook and learnings this population has taken from the pandemic, we surveyed our 10,000 Small Businesses UK alumni on topics ranging from job cuts to trading activity, and government aid to Brexit.
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Our new resource centre for small businesses and entrepreneurs navigating the fallout from COVID-19 includes policy explainers, loan application instructions, related Goldman Sachs programs, and a roundup of additional resources.
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Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses is an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunity by providing greater access to education and business support services. The programme has reached business from across the UK and has resulted in immediate and sustained business growth for the alumni of the programme. READ MORE
Program results show that 10,000 Small Businesses graduates consistently grow their revenues, and create jobs at rates that outperform the broader economy, in addition to making behavioural changes.
“The growth we have had has been incredible from the kitchen table to our own premises and manufacturing our own candles. And I’m really excited for the potential for the business now. ”
“We pride ourselves on being commercially minded with social values.”
“Through the programme I have streamlined a lot of our processes…instead of taking 29 minutes to process an order, it now takes us less than two minutes”
“A social enterprise is a business like any other business, but it strives to make the environment or the society that it works in a better place.”
“ 10,000 Small Businesses allowed us to identify exactly where we wanted to be. You see yourself as someone delivering a vision, delivering a plan and delivering dreams for your team.”
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