• Capacity Development Provider

The Furniture Technology Centre Trust t/a Furntech

The objective of the Furntech BTI programme is to ensure that emerging and existing small business entrepreneurs in the woodworking and furniture industries survive the start-up period and grow into confident, successful business people who are well grounded financially and secure in their knowledge of how to run an independent productive business. Furntech’s incubation service are built of a flexible combination of skills training and business development processes, infrastructure, and people.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

  • Nonfinancial support delivery mechanism

    • Mentoring
    • Classroom / seminar training
    • Direct Consulting Services
    • Co-working space
    • Cohort or group support

  • Nonfinancial Support

    • Leadership development
    • Access to networks and partners
    • Marketing support or market research
    • Building HR capacity
    • Business strategy and planning
    • Needs assessment
    • Ideation
    • Legal, accounting, other office services
    • Sector development
    • Exit strategies

  • Intervention Type

    • Provide nonfinancial services to entrepreneurs directly
    • Promote and educate about entrepreneurship

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Manufacturing

  • Stakeholder or Business Model Focus

    • Women entrepreneurs
    • Rural communities
    • Youth entrepreneurs
    • Urban communities

  • Impact objectives

    • Access to education
    • Capacity building
    • Community development
    • Employment generation
    • Access to information
    • Equality and empowerment
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