• Groups’ Development
  • Emerging Enterprise
  • Aspiring Entrepreneur
  • Venture Capitalist Network


What Is Community Groups’ Development Project (CGDP)?
CGDP is part funded by the European Social Funds, Objective 2, to provide a tailored technical support and management capacity building to help create a stronger, innovative, efficiently managed community sector groups. CGDP support is particularly targeted at:

  • Community Groups that has just started or about to start
  • Community Groups managed by volunteers or with less than 10 paid staff 
  • Community Groups with less than £100,000.00 annual income

 What Does CGDP Support Cover?

  • Provision of pre-start-up capacity building support
  • Putting your group in touch with helpful people and agencies.
  • Working with your group to develop suitable legal structure
  • Helping to identify potential funding opportunities / agencies
  • Supporting your group / project to fill funding applications
  • Helping your group / project to find suitable meeting place
  • Helping to develop internal procedures and equal opportunities practice
  • Helping to develop effective staff and volunteer recruitment plan
  • Helping to train your staff, volunteers and management committee
  • Provision of bookkeeping and payroll administration support

CGDP office is open Monday to Friday, 10.00am to 5.00pm, we able to clients in the evenings or weekends. Drop-in callers are also welcome for general advice.
For more information contact:
Community Groups Development Manager,
First Floor, 21-23, Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, London E7 8BA.

Tel:  0208 - 522-1565; Fax: 0208 - 555-7123
Email: info@isbm.org.uk


"The world is moving so fast now-a-days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it" - Elbert Hubbard

The Emerging Enterprise project (EEP) provides mentoring and support to up-and-coming business enterprise with growth potentials in their critical first 18 months of trading.

The main objective of this project is to equip budding entrepreneurs with the skills, tools and networks required to enable them sustain the growth and development of their businesses, particularly in first crucial phase of start-up. The ultimate goal is to increase the capacity to creating employment and contributing to Nigeria wealth creation.

To benefit from this project, the enterprise must fulfil the following criteria:

  • Must have at least four paid full time staff
  • Must have been trading (in existence) for more than one year.
  • Must be contemplating growth and expansion.
  • Must have a viable core business and a business plan


The EEP will provide structured and tailored business support and counselling to enable the beneficiaries to position their business for growth through access to finance and mentoring programme. For application form click


"Some men succeed by what know; some by do; and a few by what they are" - Elbert Hubbard

This project provides support, advice, skills, and access to finance and networks for aspiring unemployed people who are 18 years above to enable them start-up a business enterprise capable of creating at least full time jobs.
The target beneficiaries will be signposted to mentors with proven business management records of accomplishment for capacity building to help them gain hands-on experience. This will help to deal with practical challenges, particularly during their first 12 months of operations.

During their six months mentoring sessions, beneficiaries will also be provided a structured training covering, research, finance and cashflow, marketing and sales, business registrations, location, supply chain and human resource management based on the ISBM business start-up standards.

Beneficiaries with innovative business idea will be given assistance to enable them secure start-up finance from banks, financial institutions, enterprise agencies, business angels, venture capitalist locally, nationally and internationally. To complete application form click here.


This project is designed to enable enterprise with a viable core business and growth potentials access to venture capital finance. This would comprise of loan and equity finance through a network of business angels, venture capitalist, and institutional investors. Venture capitalists are wealthy individuals, business angels, and institutional investors who are willing to invest their money in viable businesses with growth potential with a view to sharing the ownership and profits of the business. To qualify for this project, beneficiaries must meet the following criteria:

Must have viable business enterprise, preferably a manufacturing or production concern

  • Must be registered as limited company or partnership
  • Must have been trading for at least two years
  • Must be prepare to share profits, equity and ownership
  • Must have 3 years audited financial statements
  • Must have gone through our business review programme