How We Can Help
Recover Canterbury offers a wide range of services and resources to help businesses recover and prepare them for future growth. These services include:
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Recovery planning – assessing what help is available to your business and drawing up a plan that will enable it to recover and thrive;
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Referrals – saving you time in finding the right sort of professional help. This includes introductions to specialist agencies such as MSI or NZTE that may help you with accessing technology or finding a new market offshore;
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Mentoring – providing an objective and impartial sounding board to assist you clarify your business’ potential and future business plans. You may be too close to today’s problems to see a solution;
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Training – providing you with training to enable you to build the right skills for growing market share and achieving success;
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Funding – assisting businesses to apply for either grants or loans from the Canterbury Business Recovery Trust Fund. These funds can cover costs associated with implementation of your recovery plan or other earthquake-related costs;
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Red Cross Independent Advice for Small Business Grant– access to this Red Cross grant, which provides financial assistance to small businesses requiring legal and accounting advice regarding the effects of the earthquake on their business;
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Other advice – assistance for businesses to raise capital/finance and address other issues such as working through the process of making an insurance claim.
Recover Canterbury has a team of 25 business recovery coordinators who have a huge collective knowledge and background in the commercial sector. They understand the challenges businesses are facing and can add real value to your business.
Any business can ask for help from Recover Canterbury and our services are free.
To ask for help from Recover Canterbury simply complete the online form here or call Recover Canterbury on 0800 50 50 96.