SFEDI Awards offers a wide range of qualifications covering all aspects of enterprise and business support. Whatever stage of enterprise development you are at, our qualifications can help you to develop your enterprise skills and thinking. Our qualifications are developed to meet sector standards, through direct consultation with entrepreneurs and those who support them, meaning that they provide you with real, practical skills that can help you progress.

All of our qualifications are based on the National Standards in Business Enterprise or Business Support. They are based on over 15 years research into what successful entrepreneurs need to know and understand and what skills they need. These standards describe, in unitised detail, each and every business function necessary to survive and thrive as a small company, from ‘thinking about’ through ‘starting up’ to ‘growing and building’ a small or micro enterprise. These units may be readily grouped into enterprise profiles covering key areas of running a small business at every stage of its lifecycle. Put simply, they tell you everything you need to successfully run your own business and how to support people as they make this progression.