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Three females from publishing company Cyhoeddiadau Lemonêd delivering their pitch at a 5-9 Club pitch event.

The 5-9 Club

What’s it all about?

Have you got a great idea for a business? Or perhaps you’d like some guidance and reassurance to take your business to the next level? Now is the time to do it – with the 5-9 Club!

The 5-9 Club is an 8-week after-hours business course that takes you through the fundamental things you need to know about to make your business idea a success. You’ll be taught by industry experts alongside like-minded people in a supportive and fun environment.

Check out our upcoming cohorts below:

We cover:

  • Idea Generation
  • Sales
  • Marketing
  • Branding
  • Finance
  • Putting your Business Online
  • Business Planning
  • Pitching your idea

Business Wales 5-9 Club

Merthyr Tydfil
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Date : 4th March 2025
Location: Merthyr College, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 1AR
Who can join?: Live, work or study in or around Merthyr Tydfil
Aged 18 or Over


In partnership with Business Wales

Sign Up Here!

Business Wales 5-9 Club

Cardiff
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Date : 6th March 2025
Location: Western Leisure Centre, Cardiff, CF5 5HJ
Who can join?: Live, work or study in Cardiff
Aged 18 or Over


In partnership with Business Wales

Sign Up Here!

More Coming Soon!

Across Wales

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Fill out our interest form below and we’ll notify you when we release the information for new cohorts!

Interest Form

You can also register your interest for our future training programmes & we’ll be in touch when a suitable cohort becomes available:

Funding

Some of the above projects are funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus

Zoë Gable

“It was exciting to be in a room filled with people like me, all of us with a passion to be entrepreneurs and a desire to help each other and the world.

I hope I can look back in a few years and come across some of these businesses that I was there to witness at the very beginning”

Tracy Kinsella-Evans

I completed the Welsh ICE 5-9 Club (an 8-week after-hours, bit-sized, business course). Fantastic course content, inspirational, engaging, and relatable speakers, who have practical experience to draw from, as business owners themselves.

Welsh ICE is a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive community and everyone associated with the organisation wants to do all they can to help you succeed.

Met wonderful, like-minded people on the course, all with different business ideas and at various stages of their journey.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone with a business idea or those at the initial stages of their business journey, as it will give you the fundamentals and transferable knowledge and tools to help build a successful business.

LJ Jan

I completed the 5 to 9 Club run by Welsh Ice. It was so much more than I expected. It really helped me clarify so many things: who my client is, how to communicate with them, all the business-related ‘back of house’ things. I feel like this course really helped for all the scattered things to come together. I feel I know what I need to do now. It also helped me overcome some blocks that were preventing me from moving forward with some things, especially in relations to marketing. The whole programme is very comprehensive.

The whole community is brilliant. Everyone’s really dedicated, knowledgeable and are genuinely rooting for you. Another thing I really loved was that it isn’t the ‘traditional’ suited, booted and uptight kind of people but very down-to-earth, easy going and approachable. I felt like I fit right in.

Theresa

I finished the 5-9 club in Newport and am absolutely buzzing.

What an amazing, detailed and insightful course full of invaluable information. The Welsh ICE team have been so helpful and lovely and I have met some wonderful fellow attendees. Pitch night was fantastic! I would definitely recommend signing up! Thanks again Welsh ICE