{"id":143,"date":"2021-10-22T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplybusiness.co.uk\/about-us\/press-releases\/business-boost-winner-revealed\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:29:42","slug":"business-boost-winner-revealed","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simplybusiness.co.uk\/about-us\/press-releases\/business-boost-winner-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Brighton business wins \u00a325,000 Covid-19 recovery grant from 25,000 applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Local Brighton business wins \u00a325,000 Covid-19 recovery grant from 25,000 applicants<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Brighton business wins \u00a325,000 Covid-19 recovery grant from 25,000 applicants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A consultancy specialising in improving business outcomes through diversity and inclusion, has been selected from almost 25,000 UK-wide applicants for a \u00a325,000 grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch This Sp_ce, based in Brighton, provides intersectional diversity and inclusion training to improve happiness and productivity in the workplace by affecting long-term, structural change to businesses. They have been awarded the \u00a325,000 Business Boost<\/a> grant from B Corp certified small business insurance broker Simply Business to help the business grow and recover from the continued impact of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch This Sp_ce was founded in the first lockdown and since then have been on a mission to reimagine, and repair the world of work. They provide consultancy, training, mentoring, coaching, and content creation services to existing business and under-represented entrepreneurs looking to start and build businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their no-nonsense approach to training has seen the consultancy go from strength to strength helping the organisations they work with move forwards to increase both workplace happiness and profits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The money from the grant will go towards making their content more accessible, expanding onto digital platforms and developing an app to reach more people with ongoing training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the UK emerges from nearly two years under the spectre of the pandemic, research from Simply Business found that small business owners expect to lose \u00a322,461 each on average as a direct result of the pandemic \u2013 with 81% of owners believing they haven\u2019t had enough support from government. Furthermore, more than one in three (37%) SME owners were unable to access any government schemes or grants, while the total estimated cost of Covid-19 for UK small businesses sits at a staggering \u00a3126.6bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winner was chosen from a shortlist by a panel of judges consisting of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n