Red Door
The RED Door is a one-stop shop for new and existing businesses seeking help and advice for business related matters. The Real Enterprise Development initiative, or RED Door, aims to nurture the entrepreneurial courage of unemployed and self-employed South Africans.
Red Door aims to:
- Help build new businesses;
- Help strengthen and develop existing businesses; and
- Help create and build more black-owned businesses.
RED Door centres are on your door step; you can find them in large communities and towns in the Western Cape. If you need any business assistance, Red Door provides you with business mentors who speak English, Afrikaans or Xhosa to make you feel comfortable and free to talk. Red Door experts are friendly and will work with you to analyse your business needs and then develop a modified action plan.
Red Door can help you to:
- Write a business plan
- Identify and fix the weak points in your business
- Find access to finance
- Get affordable support from network of business service providers
- Find accountants and lawyers
- Improve your business skills
- Learn how to apply for and win government tenders
- Find out about government incentives
- Find out about client relations, marketing and research
- Learn about how to import and export
Red Door also offers facilities such as:
- Internet access
- Small conference rooms
- Ongoing access to mentors
- Community entrepreneurship outreach programmes to the youth, women, emerging farmers and people with disabilities.
RED DOOR ADVICE CENTRES
Atlantis
Beaufort West
Hermanus
Khayelitsha
Knysna
Mitchell's Plain
Mobile RED Doors
Mossel Bay
Oudtshoorn
Paarl
Retreat
Table View
Vredenburg
To get to your nearest Red Door shop, click here for contacts:
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