Mentoring

Win the priceless advice of our retail experts, plus £500 to spend on your store. Competition closing date now extended to the 12th September!

Sometimes you know that you want to make changes or need help, but getting started takes a friendly nudge from someone who has been there and done it before.

Our Retailer Advisory Panel has been involved in a number of mentoring projects and offered advice on how stores can be improved.  Some of these changes have involved investment, but the majority were more about ways of working and changing habits. Below, you can read about how previous mentorees have found that the changes made a big difference, one even claimed ‘it changed his life’!

So, why not enter our 2023 mentoring competition? With the closing date now extended to the 12th September, there’s still time to submit your entry and and be in with a change of winning  £500, plus the priceless advice of our retail experts.

To enter, simply complete the competition entry form below, giving your name and contact details, together with brief details of your store, including store name, size and format and tell us the particular retail challenges you are currently facing. Finally, in no more than 10 words complete the tie breaker, ‘I think Partners for Growth can help me grow my sales because…’

Mentoring competition entry form

The competition closing date has been extended until Tuesday 12th September. The winner will be selected based upon their tie breaker and notified by email and telephone by Friday the 29th September. 

Terms and conditions apply.
1. The competition is open to bona fida UK and Channel Island retailers and their employees aged 18 or over, except employees of the promoter, their immediate families, their agents or anyone professionally connected with the promotion. 2. The competition can only be entered via the Partners for Growth website, at partnersforgrowth.co.uk/retailersupport/mentoring 3. Only one entry per store. 4. The closing date has been extended to 12th September 2023. 5. The winner will be selected based upon their completed tie breaker and notified by the 29th September 2023. 6. The winner will receive £500 to spend on their store improvements and advice from Partners for Growth retail experts. 7. By entering the competition, entrants agree to their name, store name, postal city and sales uplifts being used as part of the promotion of Partners for Growth. Promoters details: Partners for Growth, 29-31 Monson Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1LS.

A problem shared is a problem halved

Sometimes you know that you want to make changes, but getting started takes a friendly nudge from someone who has been there and done it before.

Our Retailer Advisory Panel has been involved in a number of mentoring projects and offered advice on how stores can be improved.  Some of these changes have involved investment, but the majority were more about ways of working and changing habits.  

All the retailers who have taken part have found that the changes made a big difference, one even claimed ‘it changed my life!’.  Find out what recommendations were made and see whether any of the suggestions would make a difference in your store.

Past Mentoring Winners…

Click the thumbnails below for more information on past winners Babar Sarfraz, Sanmugalingam Pirapakaran and Paul Mather for details of the advice they received.