BIS report finds ‘problem with demand’ for mentors

Posted on 15 Jan 2014 in Business, Information, News, Training

A report published by the Department for Business (BIS) has revealed that only 5% of small businesses have used a mentor in the past 12 months. The ‘Demand for mentoring among SMEs’ report found that almost half of small firms who had used a mentor would not be interested in doing so again, and that 44% believed that mentors who provide support for free would not be of help to them. The report concluded that ‘there is a clear problem on the demand side’ if the objective of current Government policy is to increase the number of small firms using mentors.

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There is more about the report at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/263226/demand_for_mentoring_among_SMEs.pdf