CAREER PURSUIT

setting up a business venture. Our wide community of business mentors is made up of highly successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and senior corporate figures, all of whom volunteer their time freely to provide advice and support, borne from their own extensive experience. Whilst our mentoring programme manager is on hand to facilitate successful relationships, through our online MentorNet platform, mentees are given the freedom to choose their own business mentor, making our programme a truly personalised experience ; it is driven entirely by the mentee in order to deliver maximum benefit to them and their business. We do not offer grants or monetary input to the businesses on our mentoring programme – all advice from our mentors is objective and unbiased; Heropreneurs is not trying to sell anything to anyone. Our mentors are able to offer support in all aspects of building a successful business at any stage, from start-up to scale-up, including sales, marketing, finance, negotiations, the preparation of business plans and business strategies, to name a few. HEROPRENEURS Who we are Heropreneurs was established in 2009 and is the only registered charity in the UK that works exclusively to help members of the Armed Forces, veterans and military dependants to fulfil their potential to set up and run their own businesses . Our business mentoring programme is available entirely free of charge to any member of the military community with a vested interest in establishing their own business, and we have the backing of successful entrepreneurs, politicians, business leaders and Armed Forces veterans from all ranks. Our community of volunteers, who dedicate their time to running the charity and providing support to our beneficiaries, are all successful people in business and highly aware of the tough and lonely road that creating a new business can present, and we are here to provide support to alleviate some of these concerns and smooth the path to a successful business as best we can. How we can help you? Through our free bespoke mentoring programme , we provide support through all practical aspects of 29 C A R E E R P U R S U I T 2 0 2 0