If you want to take advantage of the flexibility working for yourself offers, you should check out the business start-up support available to the military community.
Business Start-up Programmes
If you’ve got an idea for a business, these programmes will help you make it a reality.
X-Forces Enterprise
X-Forces Enterprise training will help you with the knowledge, understanding and enterprise skills to be able to decide if you want to pursue self-employment, and what your business journey could look will like.
X-Forces runs a variety of training courses, supported by strategic partners to ensure that delivery is free of charge to you. Available for service leavers as well as spouses or partners. Go to X-Forces for Training, Mentoring and Funding and ongoing support.
Heropreneurs
Heropreneurs is a not-for-profit military charity providing practical support to those from the military community in their ambition to create their own business. This team provide a free mentoring network guiding you through start-up to scaling.
Milspo – free business start-up course and mentoring for military partners
Milspo runs the Business Launch Accelerator, a fully-funded MOD start-up course designed to help UK military spouses, partners and other-halves take a business idea and turn it into a posting-proof reality – one that can flex around postings, deployments and the unpredictability of forces life.
Beyond the course, Milspo is a wider global network offering ongoing support through free virtual networking events, mentoring and workshops, plus FindAMilspo, a directory to help you promote your business once it’s launched.
Forces Families Jobs
If you are a family member of a currently serving UK military personnel, Forces Families Jobs has a list of resources that can support your start-up business. Visit Forces Families Jobs.
