Clients - Serving smaller businesses and the community
We serve clients of all sizes, from one person businesses to larger ones with a hundred staff and more. Some clients have traded for many years, whilst others are have yet to start. We work in all sectors of the business community, including:
- Manufacturing
- Technology
- Tourism & leisure
- Services
- Crafts
- Retail
- Construction
- Transport & logistics
- Community projects and clubs
Whatever, the size, we can help by providing experienced and practical business advice. Here are some examples of our clients and the work that we did with them:
- Sole trader starting up – business and financial plans, assistance with raising bank and grant finance, profit planning and marketing – results: business funded and launched, cost effective marketing clearly targeted, trading profitability
- Lifestyle partnership – pre-retirement business needed help with business and financial plans and fund raising – results: business designed to deliver income without strain, adequately funded and successfully launched
- Small growing company – business and financial plans and assistance with raising bank and grant finance – results: confidence strengthened, funds raised, growth maintained, additional employees taken on
- Small company making losses – marketing plan and cost reduction plan – results: profitability achieved from increased trade as a result of focused advertising, merchandising and business presentation, alongside significantly reduced operating costs
- Family firm trading steadily – business review to identify issues and plan for the future – results: issues identified with partnership structure and business image and plans made to address them
- Not for profit environmental services company – Business review, financial plan, marketing plan: results: key issue identified was insufficient commercial revenue, addressed by marketing plan to increase sales and financial plan to put members in firm control of their finances
- £600k company growing fast – business review followed by business and financial planning to raise additional bank and grant finance, and implementation of financial management to control cash flow and profitability – results: losses identified and reversed, controls put in place, business stabilised, additional finance raised, business grew to over £3m with a year
- £4m company making losses – business review to identify issues and actions to address them, followed by project management to get things done – results: 20% growth, restoration of profit, ambitious plans for strategic development
- £4m management buy out (MBO) – business and financial planning and assistance with raising bank finance – results: adequately funded buy out, restructured management team, new subsidiary started with grant assistance