Receiving a grant award letter marks the beginning of a new phase: delivery. Once accepted, your business must comply with the project management plan you submitted, including deliverables, timelines, and costs. Grant-awarding organisations also require regular reporting, and some provide active monitoring through a dedicated officer. This session will outline the resource requirements for successful grant-funded project delivery and share practical advice on handling unexpected complications along the way.

Two weeks of innovation, collaboration and opportunity at the West Midlands Business Festival. The two-week programme will bring our business community together to ignite innovation, share expertise and spark collaboration, based around 2026’s theme of growth without limits. The festival will champion growth for all by unlocking opportunities and supporting ambitious businesses to succeed and scale, ensuring fairness and sustained progress.

THE TRAIN CHALLENGE: Team Building on Track A fast paced and highly interactive, immersive workshop targeted at improving individual and team performance through collaboration and innovation. Uniquely bringing together behavioural preferences, a VR escape room set on a train and a team that needs to work together. Teams are formed with a mixture of behavioural preferences. Competing teams work to be the first to prevent an out-of-control VR train from hurtling into a terminus. This can only be done by solving diverse puzzles in the VR train.