Business Support

Thank you for expressing your interest in using the Lowestoft branding assets.   Within the google drive there will be access to the Lowestoft Story, The Lowestoft Toolkit (brand guidelines), The Font, visual identity, visual language and the photography elements.   The link to access the documents is below

If you have any questions regarding anything within the google drive, then please let me know.

Having a Facebook Business Page makes it easier for people to discover and interact with your brand online. Find out how to set one up here. credit: Christina Newberry February 10, 2020

A simple guide..

firstly you need to create a catalogue which is a container that holds information about all the items you want to advertise or sell on Facebook and Instagram.

Before you begin

Create a Facebook Page for your business if you don't have one yet.

Set up Business Manager so you can assign your catalogue to your business. 

Create a catalogue

To create a new catalogue:

Go to Commerce Manager. 
Start creating your catalogue:

Hard times for everyone, so we need every little bit of help.

The Budget on 3 March 2021 announced:

Restart grants for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses, to be administered by local authorities from April

An extension to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the end of September 

A fourth Self Employed Income Support Scheme grant to cover February-April 2021

A new Recovery Loan scheme which will follow the CBILS and Bounce Bank loan schemes

You can find links to East Suffolk Council's 'Restart Grant' information here.

Carbon Literacy Training for Businesses

With the environment becoming more important in a modern economy, this webinar will help business people become carbon literate and understand the difference their business can make environmentally.

Carbon literacy is an awareness of the carbon dioxide costs and impacts of everyday activities, and the ability and motivation to reduce emissions, on an individual, community and organisational basis.

Growth Hub can help firms struggling with energy costs

Businesses in Norfolk and Suffolk struggling to cope with soaring energy bills have been urged to take up the free support available from New Anglia Growth Hub.

Its experienced team of advisers can help business owners plan their budgeting and identify savings, as well as helping to access grant schemes that will support activities ranging from small innovation projects to large-scale decarbonisation plans.