The Growth Hub is a service providing tailored business training courses and guidance to help Member businesses achieve growth at whatever stage they are at. There is an annual funding allocation exclusively for Members to support training uptake.

Simply sign into MyECA and visit Growth Hub Courses to find out more about the Growth Hub and the business courses available to book.

The Growth Hub Annual Fund is an allocation available to every ECA Member to help cover or subsidise the cost of Growth Hub Training Courses.  This will help you to invest in business skills training whilst minimising training costs.

Your Growth Hub annual funding allocation is based on 25% of your prior year’s subscription. The annual funding allocation has a minimum value of £500 and a maximum value of £3,000.  

All current Members will receive at least £500 in 2026 to spend on Growth Hub Training Courses. When you book a course this year, you can request your exact annual funding allocation amount. If you have recently joined ECA please see Q18.

Every January the annual Growth Hub funding allocation will be calculated for each Member business. Each Member allocation will expire on 31 December of the same year. Unused allocations cannot be carried forward to future years, however, every Member business will always start each year with a new allocation. Although allocations are based on subscription fee levels, the Growth Hub fund is entirely separate and is being carefully managed to ensure all Members can benefit from it over the coming years.

When you book a course, you will be asked to pay for the booking in full. After you have completed the course, you will emailed an online form to complete and submit. Once we have received your submission, we will then reimburse your business from its Growth Hub Annual Funding Allocation. 

You can check your remaining allocation via the My Growth Hub section of your MyECA dashboard. Please be aware that this is not updated instantly, so we ask that you allow up to a week for your balance to reflect recently completed registrations. If you would like to know how your allocation balance will be affected by upcoming registrations (prior to the figure being updated on My Growth Hub) please email growthhub@eca.co.uk.

If your remaining allocation balance for the year is not sufficient to cover the cost of a course and you would like to pay partly with your allocation and partly via card, then please contact growthub@eca.co.uk to arrange this.

If you do not have any allocation remaining then you are able to pay via bank card.

Our courses are designed to support your business growth, offering a range of topics to help you develop key areas across your organisation. Current and past courses include:

• Managing Contracts
• Mastering Money Matters for Small Business Owners
• Electrical Estimating and Tendering
• Employment Law Essentials
• Facilitating Apprentice Engagement & Development 

More courses will be added during 2026. Visit Growth Hub Courses pages to see upcoming courses.

Yes, you will receive a professional development certificate on completing an ECA Growth Hub course.

This will vary depending on the course type, however, it will generally be between 15 and 20 delegates per session. 

No, Growth Hub Funding Allocation can only be used to pay for ECA Growth Hub courses.

All courses have been pre-tested by ECA’s Member led Growth Hub sub-group and have been tailored to meet building engineering contractor business needs. Delegates will also be asked to complete a feedback form after completing a course so that we can monitor and continuously improve course content for the future.

We appreciate that your business demands may mean you need to cancel your booking. Please see our policy below:

Cancellation

• Please let us know if you need to cancel by emailing growthhub@eca.co.uk or use the modify/cancel your booking link on your confirmation email sent to you at the time of booking. 
• By letting us know you need to cancel, it gives us time to let other Members know a place is available.
• If you cancel more than 28 days before the course start date, you will receive a 100% refund of your booking fee. 
• If you cancel between 14 and 28 days before the course start date, you will receive a 50% refund of your booking fee.
• Unfortunately if you need to cancel 13 days or less before the course start date, you will not receive a refund of your booking fee. 
• Your Growth Hub funding allocation can only be used for ECA Growth Hub courses which employees from your business attend. It can’t be used to recover any cancellation fees.
• In the rare event we have to cancel or reschedule a course, we will advise you as soon as possible. We will either refund 100% of your payment or provide a new course date. 

Transferring your place

• We are happy for you to transfer your course booking to another employee of your company. Please notify us at least 7 days by emailing growthhub@eca.co.uk before the course start date. There is no charge for this.

Unfortunately, not. Members must be up-to-date with ECA subscription payments to access this funding.

ECA’s membership subscription year runs from January to December. If your business joins ECA before 30 June during a year, it will receive a £250 funding allocation. If it joins after 30 June, its full funding allocation will become available from the start of the following subscription year.