Business Support Update – May 2026

Help us, please! What do you want?

We are planning on creating more business events across our three centres to support you. Let Rebecca know what your challenges are and how we can support you. What do you need help with? Sales, marketing, cash flow, understanding tax, team dynamics, how to have more confidence, etc.

With your input, we can create exactly what you want. We can bring in expert speakers or feature you, if you want to promote your expertise.

Morning café sessions

Rebecca usually works from the cafes in each centre until around 10 am, so pop along and have a chat. Rebecca’s network is large, and there is nothing she loves more than introducing people to each other, whether clients of Cornwall Innovation or outside business contacts.

The CIC Podcast

After a successful inaugural podcast session, we hosted five businesses based at Pool Innovation Centre. Topics discussed with Rebecca ranged from:

• How to pay less tax (T&A Kirk)
• The increasing need for private tutors for school children across the UK (Long Term Teachers)
• How to protect both landlords and tenants with the ever-changing compliance of the property industry (LetCheck)
• Renewable systems for off-site security needs (Green Power Solutions)
• Mining rights and how you don’t always own the land your house is built on (Groundsure)!

If you are a business based at the Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre, Truro, and would like to feature, please get in touch with Rebecca to register your interest. By collaborating with us on our podcast, your business will be showcased to our social media followers, and vice versa. The essence of a perfect collaboration is being mutually beneficial.

You can listen to our podcasts here: YouTube channel, Apple music and Spotify.

Business event – Work your website

One of our clients, Iain Venn, a digital project manager with over 20 years in digital delivery, from Inspire, is running an interactive workshop where you will learn how to optimise your website so you know:

• How websites, reviews, Google listings, ads and AI answers all link together
• Why reviews (even bad ones) matter, and how to handle them well
• How AI can refresh a website and support better enquiries
• How SEO, Local Services Ads (where eligible) and PPC fit together sensibly

When: Wednesday 10^th June  at 10am – 12pm
Where: Pool Innovation Centre

Business event – goal-setting sessions

Feel motivated, have a clearer direction, feel ready to go and have laser focus!

These goal-setting sessions are scheduled to run every quarter and are the perfect chance for you to take some time out of your business, to reflect on what is working, what isn’t and how best to move forward.

This is your invitation to join an ambitious group of like-minded people and is a complimentary workshop for our clients, payable for external business owners, with refreshments provided.

You will leave with clarity on your goals for the next 90 days and a smart action plan to tick off all those tasks and reach your goals.

When: Tuesday 23^rd June at 9.30am – 12.30pm
Where: Tremough Innovation Centre

Business event – personal branding event

With the increase in AI use in social media and ad copy, the power of your personal brand is increasingly important. For both business owners and team members, join us to learn how to maximise your personal brand authentically so you can attract your perfect clients and create collaborations and partnerships.

When: Tuesday 6^th October at 10am – 1pm
Where: TBC

Business events –  save the dates

Complimentary for Cornwall Innovation Centre customers

10^th June                         Work your Website                       10:00 – 12:00                    PIC

23^rd June                         Goal Setting Session                   9.30am – 12.30pm           TIC

23^rd September             Goal Setting Session                    9.30am – 12.30pm           TIC

6^th October                     Personal Branding                          10am – 1pm                    TBC

1^st December            Planning for a Successful 2027            10am – 4.30pm              TIC

‘Cuppa and Chat’

If you cringe at the thought of chatting to someone you don’t know, but you understand why you need to do it, for business growth, for personal growth, and to finally find out who that person is who you always see in the kitchen, this is your chance!

Come and enjoy a cuppa and a pastry in a welcoming environment and leave whenever you want. No awkward 30-second introductions, simply friendly people who most likely are not fans of meeting new people either.

One client who attended the Pool Innovation Centre’s  ‘Cuppa and Chat’ commented:

12^th May           Health and Wellbeing Innovation Centre

2^nd June             Tremough Innovation Centre

3^rd June             Pool Innovation Centre

Cornwall Innovation’s Business Competition winner

Rebecca has started working with our Business Competition winner, Lisa Haywood from Stutt Associates. Due to the mentor – mentee confidentiality that exists, nothing can be shared, except they took advantage of the sunshine and did a walk and talk session, where some real ‘blue sky thinking’ was achieved. Watch this space for Lisa’s updates on her business growth soon.

Business support

If you would like to explore how business mentoring and strategy can help you, this is a complimentary service for all CIC clients. Everything spoken about is confidential on how Rebecca can support you in your business, or want further information on any of the below, please email Rebecca.loto@plymouth.ac.uk.