Enterprising Hartlepool is a project developed by a steering group
of new entrepreneurs assisted by Business Link Tees Valley and
Hartlepool Borough Council.

Enterprising Hartlepool are a group of new business entrepreneurs encouraging intertrade among their members, offering mutual support and improving communication between small businesses in the town.

We want to generate a real buzz in the wider, regional business community about the individuals and small businesses thriving within the borough.

We are comprised of new startups, people with new business ideas right through companies who have now been established for two or three years. All group members know the many pitfalls and perils of working 18 hour days just to establish our ideas in the marketplace.
We do this with the support of our families and friends, and in Enterprising Hartlepool we aim to gather together and grow a network of small businesses in Hartlepool to encourage business friendship and support to make our ideas really work.

Hard work is not a problem, commitment to our business dreams are not a problem, but we realise that as a group we can gain influence over decision makers in the town, support each other with contacts and orders and by referring other businesses to our network.
We can be isolated as new business entrepreneurs, but together we can create a web of creative energy that can take us all forward and make the new Hartlepool of the 21st century a thriving, enterprising area where small businesses are much more likely to succeed rather than fail.

We are a mixture of limited companies, partnerships and sole traders some with one or two part-time or full-time employees, and a few with a handful of people working for their company.

If you fit that category, are more likely to wear suits only for meetings, work all hours to establish and make yours a bigger and better business, then we would like you to be part of our growing informal web of entrepreneurs in Enterprising hartlepool.