DBA and Nesta offer free training

The Design Business Association and the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts are launching the latest round of the S/M/L initiative, which will award £50 000 worth of free business training and mentoring to design consultancies.

The scheme is being widened to include UK design groups with a minimum of two years’ worth of annual accounts. Previously, only groups operating for between three and seven years were eligible. However, the number of groups that will benefit, this year, has fallen from ten to eight.