Regional Business Partner Network
Sublime Coffee Roastery & Brew Bar, Nelson
The Regional Business Partner Network (RBPN) is a Government funded network of business advisors supporting local businesses to grow, innovate, and connect. The Nelson Regional Development Agency (NRDA) is proud to deliver the Regional Business Partner Programme across Te Tauihu on behalf of MBIE.
Our team of advisors provides independent business advice, access to funding opportunities, practical resources, and valuable connections across local and national support networks. We work alongside businesses at every stage of their journey, helping strengthen both individual organisations and our wider regional business community.
NRDA has supported more than 4,000 local businesses, from many of our leading exporters and early stage deep tech startups through to aspiring entrepreneurs with a great idea. With a broad range of knowledge, experience, capability, and connections, our team is here to help local businesses thrive.
Innovation Services offers grants, tax incentives, and startup support to help you seize new opportunities and drive innovation. From nurturing future talent to R&D initiatives to taking world-leading innovations to market, we're here to provide the funding or assist you in finding it.
Feel free to get in touch us at any time, we can have a chat about what support could be right for your business.
This MBIE funding is aimed at helping business owners and/or senior managers with a subsidy towards management training and can help local companies to access third party expertise via an approved workshop/coaching/training course to build and improve management capability in specific business areas. The fund subsidises up to 50% of the cost of management training, up to $5,000 per year (excluding GST).
Our team of advisors can assist you with advice on funding, training and development opportunities available within Nelson Tasman, and beyond.
Get in touch with us to share your business needs and requirements in order to help you grow your business and/or upskill your team.
Our team of advisors are your go-to for practical, locally grounded support that helps ideas grow and business to thrive. Whether you’re starting out, scaling up, or navigating change, our team of advisors can connect you with expert advice, funding pathways, capability-building programmes, and the right people across the Nelson Tasman business ecosystem.
With connections across Te Tauihu and many industries, we can identify local opportunities and facilitate business connections to help you access information and build your business.
Learn more about how we have helped local businesses access support through the Regional Business Partner programme.
We are very proud to showcase local innovation in Nelson Tasman company, Prolam. Prolam designs, manufactures, and distributes glulaminated timber beams. They have a culture of research, science and innovation and are continually looking at new ways to disrupt their market. Based in Motueka, Prolam service engineers, architects, and wider construction professionals with world-class engineered timber solutions.
