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Deeping Business Support Group
The Deeping Business Support Group helping local businesses navigate their way through the Covid Pandemic.
Who are we? A group of community activists who aware of the work that Feed Deeping were doing decided to set up a group specifically to address the problems being experienced by local businesses.
DSJ United Charities via Kate Shinkins- Hoppe are proud to be involved with this group. We have been able to help individuals and local businesses in a variety of ways. If you feel that we may be able to help you too, please contact a member of the Group or call us on 01778 344707.
Many of the things that the Rotary Club of the Deepings achieve without the invaluable help given to us by local businesses. This is why we have felt it essential to offer our assistance to the work being done by the Deepings Business Support Group, which is helping local business at this difficult time.
Cllr Bob Broughton (Market Deeping & SKDC) I have served the community here for over thirty years and I am pleased to be able to contribute to DBSG helping businesses now when they need us most. Steve Holt , President Deepings Lions. ‘It is a privilege to be an active part of DBSG offering practical pro-bono support to businesses in The Deepings and surrounding areas at a time of great need. Lions and myself feel duty bound to preserve the great SME and sole trader operations that exist in our community and wish to aid Deepings people affected by this
does in the local community would be so much harder to awful pandemic.’
Andy Pelling represents the Deepings Business Community – ‘DBC (formerly Deepings Business Club) are committed to supporting the Deepings Business Support Group (DBSG) both financially and with human resources. DBSG perfectly fits with our core objectives of helping local businesses, at the moment to survive but in the longer term to thrive.’
Cllr Judy Stevens (DSJ & SKDC) The impact of this terrible pandemic will be with us for a long while but in setting up the DBSG I wanted to try and ensure that we smooth the way as much as possible for the businesses in the Deepings.
Chairman of DSJ Parish Council Steve Gilbert ‘As a local businessman of many years standing I am very pleased to be able to support businesses through the Deeping Business Support Group during these unprecedented What have we done? times.’ The type of business support given FREE to the applicant has covered a myriad How are we doing this? of skills including; membership of the Federation of Small Businesses, marketing, strategic planning, employment issues, practical Covid advice, mindset coaching and financial advice. Having sought and successfully obtained funding and support from Deeping St James Parish & Market Deeping Town Councils, DSJ These are just some of the local businesses we have helped United Charities, Rotary, Lions, Deeping Business Community, Cllr Trollope-Bellew, Cll B Dobson, Cllrs Broughton, Stevens and Thomas we approached professionals able to help over a broad spectrum of skill sets and produced a skills matrix. A Governing Principles document was produced and training was given by InvestSK to enable the signposting of applicants to various national and local government support schemes.
